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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    1 month 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.

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      1 month ago

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

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        1 month ago

        There is also an inventive to buy people expensive truck as personnal vehicule but I believe that people in this community are willing to look at the externalities.