----- Original Message ----- From: "George Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 4:33 AM Subject: [canals-list] Re: Proposed new car tax (OT)
> Yes, and this makes it a very tricky problem. Often an area, > typically on the periphery of a city, becomes congested. The > government engages in road works to alleviate the congestion. > These works are successful, and people discover that certain > areas are now more conveniently reached, houses are built, and > business move in. After several years, the level of congestion > is back to where it was in the first place. So a lot of money > has been spent on road works, but are we really better off in > the end or not? I have no answer... > A sacred cow of the anti car people "more roads create more congestion", but there are many cases where appropriate improvements made a long time ago have solved the problem for the forseeable future. These days the trend is to break any new scheme at the design stage with an unneccesary roundabout and / or traffic lights to make sure it has no additional capacity because of the above mantra, so of course it doesn't work. -- Niall
