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

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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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.