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Department Vice Chair and Professor, Susan L Handy, Discusses Reducing Traffic Congestion in the UC Davis Magazine
Traffic congestion in California has been a long standing issue within the state. A common suggestion to help ease traffic is widening the roads on the freeways by adding more lanes. Susan L Handy, Department Vice Chair and Professor, discusses why this is not an optimal solution and offers other viable solutions from her, Shifting Gears: Toward a New Way of Thinking about Transportation (The MIT Press, 2023).
Read the news story:
https://magazine.ucdavis.edu/does-widening-highways-ease-traffic-congestion/