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The total length and duration of traffic jams in the Netherlands increased this year, despite the opening of several new roads in Zuid Holland, figures from the ANWB show. The ANWB said traffic congestion – the length of jams multiplied by their duration – rose by 3% compared with last year.

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[–] mjr@infosec.pub 14 points 4 days ago

We had a national government that accepted this and retitled the road-building budget as "pinch point funding" to say it should only be used to smooth junctions where jams accumulate, not on extra lanes to deliver more cars to those jams.

Local government still found creative ways to subvert it into building new roads and lanes, then that national government was sacrificed on the altar of Brexit and business as abnormal resumed. That's why we don't get nice things.