like a barge running into a net

I read a news report that Ontario Premier Doug Ford is looking to build a 40-70km tunnel under the highly congested highway 401 in Toronto. He is first asking for a feasibility study.

When I first heard this on the radio I immediately had an emotional reaction of how idiotic this idea is. Building more roads has shown, over and over, that they relieve traffic in the short term but in the medium and long term produce what is called induced demand. The more roads there are, the more cars there will be.

If the billions of dollars spent on the tunnel were spent on vastly improving public transit and bike lanes; this would be the way to alleviate traffic on the 401.