Ways to reduce congestion without altering roads, signs, traffic light cycles, or work hours:
1) Everyone drives slightly below the speed limit
2) Pick a lane and stick to it
3) Merge late
There's research showing that almost whatever you do (short of charging), congestion will remain the same. More roads makes for more drivers. More public transport takes cars off the road? Others will replace them due to the increased convenience.
> There's research showing that almost whatever you do (short of charging), congestion will remain the same. More roads makes for more drivers. More public transport takes cars off the road? Others will replace them due to the increased convenience.
That's clearly incorrect. Cars aren't going to magically appear in North Dakota just because you put in a twelve lane superhighway to nowhere.
What the data in question is actually explaining is that traffic congestion reduces traffic. When you remove the cause of the traffic congestion you get more traffic. But this isn't Zeno's Paradox. There is a finite number of lanes capable of handling all the traffic you would see when there is no traffic congestion.
