New track, new traffic jams?
Smog and heavy traffic at night © Jacek Dylag 2020 Unsplash
Does creating a new lane on the freeway reduce traffic jams? This is the debate that divides lobbyists, politicians and scientists. For Alexis Gumy, postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratoire de Sociologie Urbaine, the hypothesis is too simplistic. "Fighting traffic jams means rethinking regional planning.