Congestion as a good thing

http://www.geocities.com/pezosgr/LCC.htm

[email protected] wrote:

> Hi All!
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> As if I didn't have enough to do my local council in Gothenburg has decided to build an new motorway tunnel under the river. I naturally feel that this is a bad move but it comes as no surprise and has been hovering in the air since about a year after they finished present motorway tunnel under the river. I intend to do everything in my power to stop the project.
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> For some time now I have been pondering over a theory that congestion is the only true limiting factor in unregulated traffic. It is based on one of my fears about congestion charging. Simply applying a charge to drive at certain times of the day will initially reduce the congestion but this relief will soon be eaten up by the financially stronger drivers driving more. In London the charge has been accompanied by other measures reducing the amount of road space allocated to cars mainly to the advantage of bus lanes. (Good stuff Ken.) But it doesn't help me to prove my theory.
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> Has anyone been thinking along similar lines or know of someone who has? This idea seems so obvious that someone else must have already done research on it. Ideally it would be best with empirical data from a city that has used road space as a limiting factor to reduce traffic. If a new road always generates more traffic the opposite intuitively seems true. Taking away a lane will reduce traffic. Help me prove this please.
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> /Ian Fiddies
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