Voices for and against the new lanes

For Vincent Kaufmann, Director of the Laboratory of Urban Sociology at EPFL, the increase in road infrastructure encourages car use. Laetitia Morandi, an EPFL mobility engineer and urban planner, is also sceptical: ‘What's the point of widening motorways to accommodate more vehicles if we can't park those same vehicles at their destination?‘ However, a study for the TCS conducted by Micaël Tille, a lecturer at EPFL, tempers the pessimistic projections by indicating that the traffic effect induced by new lanes does not hold true in Switzerland.