What is the real cost of requiring wider roads for new development?
Research in the US is considering the real cost of the requirement to widen roads for new development. The policy and thinking by planners and engineers is that development creates car trips that must be accommodated with more asphalt. This occurs even when traffic numbers don’t suggest it is required now or into the future. The research has indicated that the whole practice of street widenings to ‘accommodate’ new residential development does little to reduce congestion and