Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (2015)
In practical terms, we can consume as much transport as we get. If it was cheap and fast I could have ramen lunch in Tokyo. Pick up the kids from crèche in Portugal on my way home to New Zealand.<p>So, unless we get teleport watches... congestion is the &quot;price,&quot; the thing that limits consumption. Economists would prefer the price to be price, being economists.<p>One thing this article leaves out is what the value of all this transport is. Maybe more roads don&#x27;t solve congestion but they do produce more &quot;goods,&quot; more Kms travelled. Presumably this has value.