Highway spending increased by 90% in 2021. This is one of many reasons why car traffic is growing faster than population growth.

  • pseudo@jlai.lu
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    16 days ago

    Agree. Transportation is a problem of flow maximisation. We won’t optimise the circulation in our system if we flood it with transportation machinery instead of focusing on the people.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Ah, but congestion creates scarcity and drives up prices. So there’s a perverse economic incentive to flood the system with machinery.