"Alexandria, Egypt has become the latest city to solve traffic. Check out their brand new 10 lane highway on the beachfront." @CarsRuinedCity

Just one more lane bro I swear we're gonna fix traffic

Playing factorio has given me a deeper appreciation of how much adding lanes doesn't help traffic.

Adding an extra conveyor belt to your factory line won't help you process materials any faster. You have to add more processing elements, widening the belt lines does absolutely nothing!

There's a few good mini-documentaries on YouTube starting from 1950s America through to now and how the USA is a robust, evidence-rich, long-term case study of why this is bad infrastructure. It's basically a modern no-brainer now. Thanks to the US we know not to do this. US cities are now slowly trying to undo decades of deep-rooted bad infrastructure choices based around reliance on big road networks.

Surprise, surprise, car manufacturers were a big player in influencing the initial decision 🤣

Having lived in metro areas that have worked on alternative transport solutions, I can tell you it's sooo much better and easier to live with. And I love cars—own three. But they're just not the convenient option quite often.

I like to explain this phenomenon as the free cake effect.

Say you set up a food stand with a sign "free cake". It doesn’t matter how many cakes you baked, people will keep showing up until all the cake is gone.

widening roads increases traffic. always.

Mh.. there is still some beach left where you can add even more lanes!
This will definitely solve the problem!

Wonder how bad the noise level is on that beach. Must have to shout to be heard "IT'S REALLY RELAXING HERE!" "What?!"

I love it when other countries copy the worst parts of America

When I went to Egypt they were driving crazy there like bumper cars

Good God I can't wait to move to a country that has public transit

Looking forward to the Lemmy post in 60 years when this is restored

Induced demand at it's finest

This is one of those arguments that never made sense to me. People like to say that adding lanes just creates more traffic, but what is the proposed mechanism? Does anyone suppose that people who didn't want to go somewhere suddenly remembered that the highway added more lanes, and then decided to go for a cruise?

It suggests to me that the demand for transit far exceeds capacity, or that this traffic would otherwise have just taken a different route. Probably some of both.

That's not an argument to just build 15 lane highways everywhere, just that the common form of the supply creates demand argument seems implausible.

The real problem here is that Egyptian cities are grotesquely overpopulated. Cairo is the poster child for urban hell.

Induced demand in action.

that's how civil engineers get revenge on the world

I don't understand how the middle and right pictures compare. There are ten total lanes in the middle picture, but only six in the right picture.

So… they're prepping it for their formula one application?

All the three looks bad to be fair, side with buildings probably businesses cannot attract that much customer which likely come from the beach since there is no way to go to the other side. Though first one is still bearable.

"iMpROvEMenT"

Wild

It's the venturi effects, they'll shoot out at the skinny part at the end of the 10 lane highway.

Damn, this is uggly AF..

Egypt's admin is cities skylines mayor in real life.

That's just sad

My neuro cogitators return revulsion at the sight of this. I choose to experience this feeling.

Adamsomething has a few videos on this

eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQld7iJJSyk