You can’t build your way out of congestion. It’s the roads themselves that cause traffic. The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. [...]
What [economists] Turner and Duranton (and many others who’d like to see more rational transportation policy) actually advocate is known as congestion pricing. This means raising the price of driving on a road when demand is high.
— wired.com
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Buy this car to drive to work, drive to work to pay for this car.
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Completely misses the point: public transportation is the only hope for the future, and the only way to achieve it is via taxes on gas and oil company profits that are used to fund the necessary infrastructure (re)development.
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