Fwd: Big Dig leads to more time stuck in traffic

This was so predictable.  There are numerous studies showing that increasing the capacity of roads increases traffic even more.  So a short time after the road is "improved" the traffic is worse than before.
--pws

Big Dig pushes bottlenecks outward

While the Big Dig achieved its goal of freeing up highway traffic downtown, the bottlenecks were only pushed outward, as more drivers jockey for the limited space on the major commuting routes. Many motorists going to and from the suburbs at peak rush hours now spend more time stuck in traffic. (By Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff)

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UltraFit - Large Fella on a Bike

By Stephen Regenold
The Gear Junkie

The rebirth of Scott Cutshall began Thanksgiving Day 2005, a bowl of vegetable soup for breakfast kicking off a new life where nothing would be the same. Cutshall, living in Jersey City at the time, weighed 501 pounds. He was having breakfast. And then he was getting ready to go on a bike ride.

He rode 1.9 miles that day, rolling through neighborhoods, biking on the street, stopping to rest four or five times to sit on a curb. Head down. Panting. Hot even in November.

The ride of less than two miles took Cutshall three hours to complete. But the wheels were turning. His body was in motion. The journey had begun.