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Re:Cities to Untangle Traffic Snarls, with Help from Alphabe... by swehner on Thursday March 17, 2016 @03:13PM (#11306784)
Sounds like total nonsense.

More capacity ⇛ more traffic.

Example reference, if one is even needed http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/11/californias-dot-admit...

Not hearing that that is part of the thought process here.

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Re:Cities to Untangle Traffic Snarls, with Help from Alphabe... by _greim_ on Thursday March 17, 2016 @05:13PM (#11307656)
Spot on. The constant in the equation isn't the number of cars on the road, but the tolerance people have for time spent in traffic.
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Re:Cities to Untangle Traffic Snarls, with Help from Alphabe... by swehner on Thursday March 17, 2016 @10:37PM (#11309486)
Hey that's a good way to put it!
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Re:Cities to Untangle Traffic Snarls, with Help from Alphabe... by swehner on Thursday March 17, 2016 @04:17PM (#11307247)
Thing is, there is a sense of entitlement which is just not realistic with billions of peoples.

(And down-voting doesn't change that ...)

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