🚀 go-pugleaf

Aaron M. Renn wrote:
> 
> Bentley wrote in message ...
> >To say that a highway doesn't solve "any" problems is simply absurd, and
> >requires an absurd response.
> 
> Maybe so, but I don't recall saying highways don't solve "any" problems.
> People like you appear to be blind to the possibility of anything other the
> building of more roads and nothing else.  I like roads, but I think that
> simply building roads to accomodate traffic without a whole range of urban
> and land use planning (with real teeth) to go along with it is not going to
> solve congestion problems.  The capacity on any new roads in DC would most
> likely soon be devoured be new traffic.  (This has been the case elsewhere
> and I see no reason why it would not be true for DC as well).  Unless
> someone says no more office parks, strip malls, and housing development
> spread all over the next 50,000 acres of open space on the fringes, traffic
> is never going to stop getting worse.

Perhaps true, but we're not just talking about more routes to the outer
'burbs. There aren't enough roads to get from one developed part of
metro DC to another developed part of metro DC. DC has never had enough
roads--adding more will simply bring it to where it should have been all
along.