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Water & Traffic May Flow, But Don't Try Bathing in an Expressway
Here's a question for you to consider: if a road is congested, should it be widened? If you answered yes, can you name a major urban highway expansion project that didn't revert within five years to the same average traffic speed as before the expansion? Don’t try too hard, because they don’t exist.
Can paths put Atlanta in the same league as Paris?
Paris went with a big mix of infrastructure to get its system going fast. Bi-directional bike/scooter lanes, center-running bikeways, concrete-protected lanes, parking-buffered lanes, and off-road paths are scattered throughout the city. City officials are finding that some of these options work better than others, which gives us the opportunity to learn from their trials and forgo their errors.