(15 Nov 2022, 5:52 pm)Unber43 wrote I was shocked at first too, but actually it makes it worse in the long run, as more people are inclined to use roads when the road has been widened as they think its lower commute times so more people use it, and the congestion gets worse.
https://www.smartertransport.uk/does-bui...ongestion/ https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traff...ed-demand/
The problem is we don't invest in public transport either. Other countries treat public transport as a public service so if the equivalent GNE made a loss £10m a year it wouldn't be the end of the world if they ran a complete bus service as the gains elsewhere; less traffic, better productivity etc outweighs that usually paid by subsidies. Even known we pay them anyway funding rubbish by GCT and the likes which no-one use.
Instead we treat them like a business so it's just a mess with chopped up routes, carved up areas, routes not going where they want and inadequate light rail / rail services so everyone jumps in a car. There's towns in France of 100k with better rail / light rail that we have in places like Leeds in particular. The exception being London which has a fantastic public transport network imo but even that's in trouble as TFL has a black hole which the government are refusing to help with as they're playing politics and blaming it on Khan as it's all the current Tory lot do lately.