In the US, when highways are widened, motorists recognize that previously congested routes are now less so. More motorists begin to use the newly widened routes - and in a few years, the widened highways attain the previous levels of congestion. Widening highways fails to provide a lasting solution and also creates more and more infrastructure maintenance costs going forward. Switzerland’s great rail and bus transport already serve as an example for the world. Build upon that. We humans have made ourselves dependent on autos, promoting population sprawl, pollution and encumbering ourselves with the related costs and environmental impacts of vehicles and de-centralized development. Save federal budgets for more pressing needs. Save the planet. - And I’m an auto lover.
In the US, when highways are widened, motorists recognize that previously congested routes are now less so. More motorists begin to use the newly widened routes - and in a few years, the widened highways attain the previous levels of congestion. Widening highways fails to provide a lasting solution and also creates more and more infrastructure maintenance costs going forward. Switzerland’s great rail and bus transport already serve as an example for the world. Build upon that. We humans have made ourselves dependent on autos, promoting population sprawl, pollution and encumbering ourselves with the related costs and environmental impacts of vehicles and de-centralized development. Save federal budgets for more pressing needs. Save the planet. - And I’m an auto lover.
What about adding a commuter bus line ?
Study bottlenecks, increase railway capacity for those areas, get rid of the vignette, toll the roads at CHF0.05/km/axle with surge pricing.
What about more trains?