Taken to the extreme, if you made such a dense network of roads that it was effectively just one giant paved surface, then I think it&#x27;s obvious that it&#x27;d be inefficient since everyone is barging through trying to go in their own straight line and getting in each other&#x27;s way. In that case, adding barriers and one-way lanes would intuitively speed up people&#x27;s journeys. So perhaps Braess&#x27;s paradox is only unintuitive for simple cases that are very close to our existing road networks.