# @vox on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=2z7o3sRxA5g
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/22451999-vox-youtube
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/legacy-do/1201308a6a88320dcbd04566d32e2c68cf8d8185acf7f62115abd39d1e6835f0.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-02-12T13:00:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Vox (@vox) — https://gondola.cc/vox

## Caption

Expanding highways doesn't do what you think it does.

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Big, expensive highway expansion projects are the source of a lot US transportation funding — but they aren't a silver bullet for congestion relief. In communities that were built for cars, solving traffic problems requires much more holistic problem-solving. 

At 1:00,  we show a bar graph of travel times on the Katy Freeway that was originally put together by City Observatory, which has covered the Katy Freeway expansion project at length: 
https://cityobservatory.org/reducing-congestion-katy-didnt/

This video was based in large part on research by Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner: 
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.101.6.2616

For more reading on induced demand: 
https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-06/traffic-jam-blame-induced-demand?sref=PxYB8Mnq

For Kyle Shelton's work on urbanism: 
https://kinder.rice.edu/urban-edge/author/541

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## Stats

- **Views:** 2,253,853
- **Likes:** 56,385
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- **Comments:** 3,945

## Credits

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vox | @vox | https://gondola.cc/vox | Media Company |
| Matt Dunne | @matt_dunne | https://gondola.cc/matt_dunne | Motion Designer |

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