How highways make traffic worse

Correction: At 5:12, we use Boston as an example of a successful urban highway removal project that resulted in congestion-reduction. Many of you correctly pointed out that this example isn’t quite right, because they moved several highway lanes underground. You can read more about that project here: www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/12/29/years-late… When it comes to congestion-reduction, highway removal projects are inherently complicated, but here is more information about some of the environmental and racial justice impacts of a proposed federal plan to remove urban highways: www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-01/urban-h…

What I don't get is how much of a fight some Americans put up when there area wants to put in some new buses or light trains. Like, isn't it neat to just pay a few $ and get into the centre of a town without having to pay parking?

So building more highway lanes is like opening more tabs on Google Chrome....

Cities skylines: *adds more lanes* *everyone still only uses one*

Like the guy from "Not just Bikes" said: People always talk about wanting to have the freedom to drive. But what about the freedom to not have to drive?

“Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity." — Lewis Mumford, 1955 Edit: Cool, thanks for the likes! :D Greetings from Cologne, Germany - where a 6 lane highway Bridge is being replaced by a 12 lane bridge 🤦‍♂️

Me, an intellectual who have played Cities Skylines: Yes, I understand traffic

Imagine how much better it would be if they created a train network

Ah yes, the residential-commercial mixed zones. Or, as the rest of the world calls it, how towns have been built since the advent of agriculture.

Houston: the highway is really congested Biffa cities skylines: hold my tea

TLDR: You need public transport.

One of the biggest cons ever was selling the American Dream as living 1 hour commute from work, where you can't walk to any store, can't go outside cause of dangerous pedestrian paths, & "freedom" means requiring an expensive car (insurance/maintenance) to go anywhere with no public transportation access or even sidewalks

As someone who can't drive, the car-centric society in America is very hard for me and others like me. Now that I'm loosing my vision I'm now to ask my mom if i can go to a friend's house bc I can't go if she won't. I'm in my 20s asking my mom to drive me places like a child again. It's rather humiliating for those who start losing their vision.

Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, Paris, and Taipei's subway system changed my mind about public transit. I used to think that car ownership is the only way to go. Technically it still is in the US. But I can't imagine driving in those cities

"Because, if we build it, they will come." One sentence that answers the whole Question of the Video

Simple. Just remove all the roads and you won't have any traffic.

The Katy Freeway is the largest Freeway on Earth, spanning twenty-six lanes each way and costing Texas 2.3 billion dollars to build and 8 million dollars a year to maintain. It still jams.

Astronaut: Huston, we have a problem. NASA: What you blew an engine? Astronaut: No... The traffic jam is visible from Space!

Me, a Colombian who only knows “highways” with 4 lanes at most and are congested 24/7, watching this video: interesting

Civil Engineer: Spends most of his life trying to figure out how the road is should be constructed to reduce congestion Average Cities Skylines player: I'll just remove all traffic lights, and they'll figure it out