How highways make traffic worse

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Expanding highways doesn't do what you think it does.
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00:02- [Narrator] The Katy Freeway in Texas
00:03connects Houston's Western
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00:25with six lanes in most places.
00:28But as the suburbs and
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01:02The reason why hinges on
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01:24A highway gets built to connect
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undefined:undefinedcommuters that drive on them.
01:49These particular commuters, the red ones,
01:51will sit in traffic no
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02:03traffic slows to a crawl.
02:06Now let's add a new lane.
02:08These drivers now have
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02:21even though they have
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02:51And sometimes, like on the Katy Freeway,
02:53congestion gets even worse
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03:10on highways and private automobiles,
03:13there's almost no way around it,
03:15because that's the system
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03:36The transit advocacy group,
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03:54to get Federal funding to
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04:14New drivers will take the
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04:30And most of our cities have now
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04:55And in the long-term,
04:56better land use policies can help as well,
04:58like by building communities
04:59that put people closer
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05:18What we build and invest in
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