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The Fundamental Law of Traffic: widening roads increases traffic.
It sounds like a Buddhist koan – more roads means more traffic – but Professor Matthew Turner of the University of Toronto calls it the Fundamental Law of Road Congestion. He explains to host Jeff Young that even though we spend billions expanding roads and adding transit, neither will affect congestion.