The Congestion Con – Transportation For America – t4america.org

How more lanes and more money equals more congestion
In an expensive effort to curb congestion in urban regions, we have overwhelmingly prioritised one strategy: we have spent decades and hundreds of billions of dollars widening and building new highways. We added 30,511 new freeway lane-miles of road in the largest 100 urbanised areas between 1993 and 2017, an increase of 42%.