Adding lanes to roads increases traffic

Wired reports on a phenomenon well-known to traffic engineers: adding new lanes to a road increases traffic on them. A few cities, around the world, have taken lanes away, and found that traffic doesn't really get worse -- people take fewer trips, or use public transport.

Interesting.

Sunspots 366

Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else:

Science: PC World reports that the state of Nevada has regulations which grant licenses to cars with no active human driver. Google has such cars on the road in Nevada now.

Politics:  NPR reports on how thinking about some good experience we have had might make us more willing to accept facts that are contrary to our political biases.

Rachel Held Evans says that political campaigns against homosexual marriage are alienating a generation from Christianity.

  

Christianity: (or Politics) Weekend Fisher has done a thorough study of the question of slavery in the Bible.

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