By : Vox

Democrats in the Senate are considering nearly $10 billion in funding for highway-removal projects in cities across the US. Here's why that may end up reducing, not increasing traffic in the long run:

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Petaling Jaya town planners and the Selangor government need to learn that highways are a fallacy to reducing traffic congestion.
Quote: "Highway expansion has gone hand in hand with the suburbanization of American cities like Houston. It becomes a self-fulfilling recipe for urban sprawl: a highway gets built to connect suburbs to a city center which encourages more development along it, which necessitates even more highways when those get congested and on and on.
The instinct to widen to relieve traffic makes sense -- but there's a reason it doesn't work: due to a concept called "induced demand." The more supply (of highway lanes) there is, the more demand will follow, to exhaustion. Congestion gets even worse after a highway expansion."