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New York Spends Biden Cash on Highways Over Public Transit (nysfocus.com)
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Finally NY is adding the lanes necessary to reduce congestion!

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[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Two ways to spend a hundred million dollars in infrastructure money:

  • Spend it widening a motorway, so now instead of 1,000 cars per minute, it can now handle 1,200 cars per minute. Spend another million dollars a year maintaining it because people try to drive one and a half times the speed limit, tearing up the road in their two-tonne pickup trucks
  • Double the service frequency of several bus and metro lines adding capacity for thousands of passengers per minute and significantly reducing public transportation wait times, making it a more attractive option, leading to higher ridership and more fare $$$

Tough choice!!

[-] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 52 points 2 years ago

Braess's paradox

Dietrich Braess, a mathematician at Ruhr University, Germany, noticed the flow in a road network could be impeded by adding a new road, when he was working on traffic modelling. His idea was that if each driver is making the optimal self-interested decision as to which route is quickest, a shortcut could be chosen too often for drivers to have the shortest travel times possible. More formally, the idea behind Braess's discovery is that the Nash equilibrium may not equate with the best overall flow through a network

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

1968

[-] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 years ago

"The paradox was first discovered by Arthur Pigou in 1920". 🤔

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

That's even worse, dontcha think?

[-] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 years ago

Definitely! I guess that the result defies I intuition, so it's hard to make it widely known and accepted, but after 100 years urban planners should all understand it!

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it doesn't take much analysis to realize that highway throughput must be balanced by offramp throughput, which must be balanced by the throughput of any streets the offramp feeds, right down to the throughput of each of the destination entrances. If an offramp can handle 20 cars per minute but the highway is feeding it 21 cars per minute, it's going to back up and slow the highway until it can only feed that offramp less than 20 cars per minute (because it needs to clear the backlog in addition to handle new cars wanting to exit).

And when you have capacity slowing traffic, then you get turbulence from people trying to optimise their lane selection to get through the heavier traffic quicker. This adds up until traffic ends up stopped for no apparent reason because you get to the front of it and there's no accident or anything, your just get through the bottleneck.

Oh unless there is an accident as a result of people trying to get through quicker, and then you see the cases where you drive by the accident and think things should get better but they don't because the real bottleneck is still ahead.

[-] nicetriangle@kbin.social 47 points 2 years ago

Except adding lanes doesn't alleviate congestion. As if induced demand is some mysterious secret.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

TBF New York City has only known this for NINETY FUCKING YEARS.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 years ago

Oh, that's disappointing.

Like giving a diabetic candy because their blood sugar is too high.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 years ago

It's almost like the idiocy is systemic somehow

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

There's money to be made.

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