The roads are always congested because

[SueEllen]

LOL. Yeah try Toronto at rush hour sometime. I have been known to get out of car and have a sandwich while I wait for traffic to move.

I was told LA was even worse. <shudders>

Least in Toronto you can get out and have a sandwich unlike the stretches of the M25 I've been on.

[CoolCat]

It's not going to improve unless we decide we will commute differently and to different places.

The roads haven't changed capacity significantly in the last 20 - 30 years yet there are a lot more drivers.

actually large amounts of public money have been spent reducing the width of roads and adding chicanes, humps, and so on... such is the fashion amongst the anti car nutters currently in fashion in our public sector

[d000hg]

most of the countries that I have visited have less lanes than we do, they also have a lot less congestion. This is because their roads are longer. this country is so little

What we ned is a bigger country

Or shorter cars?