I think Veritadism just put out a video explaining some paradox about this topic.

I think there was at least one case where the city went broke maintaining roads and everyone left. That was a success.

Examples of the opposite. The Braess-Pardox Enjoy!

90% of city planners quit one lane before fixing traffic forever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWeFw0I-igI

Doubles as the shelf where she keeps her fucks.

North American cities don’t build a lot of roads. Instead, they build stroads. Stroads are the worst of all worlds: ugly, noisy, unsafe, polluted, congestion-causing abominations.

CityNerd did a video explaining why this happens. It's because city planners and traffic engineers assume that the same proportion of people will drive in the future, just that there will be more of them. So if you assume everyone's still going to drive you have to build more lanes because everyone will drive.

Robert Moses needs to be more (in)famous as the pioneer of this kind of bullshit. The Power Broker by Robert Caro is a must-read book for anybody that wants to know how the US got so fucked up.

Yup. They're just going to add tolls to some of the lanes and make you pay more to use what you already paid for anyway.

Congestion pricing, on the other hand: observably a good policy.

It works exactly as intended, to drive sales of cars.

Just one more study bro

Jevons paradox?

Well, they're adding one more lane right now here for busses only...