this post was submitted on 15 May 2024
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are there any actual sources that adding more lanes does more harm than good? People bitch about it all the time and i always hear the "one more lane" joke going around, but I've never actually seen any papers or articles about it. Just pictures of large highways with traffic jams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox
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