Expanding highways doesn't do what you think it does. Subscribe and turn on notifications (🔔 ) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO 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 Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com/. Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o Or Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H