Linear parks and the drive to ease congestion

If building new roads and fast traffic lanes does not cut traffic, can it work the other way round?

You would think that ending a traffic restriction would improve journey times, but the sudden termination of Jakarta's high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes had the opposite effect. To use these lanes drivers required two passengers, but a trade in hiring people bought the lanes to an abrupt end last year. The traffic could spread across all lanes, but journey times and congestion increased. In fact, traffic worsened over the whole network almost immediately. Even on roads with no HOV lanes, at times when the lanes had not operated, delays increased by up to two minutes per km. The US embassy measures air quality from its roof in Jakarta. It is too early to see the changes, but we can be sure that it did not get better.

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