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Is There a Homeostatic Edge to Road Engineering?
The wider a road is perceived to be, the faster driver speed tends to increase. Tom Vanderbilt says you can almost date a subdivision's development based on that shift. This points to one of the problems about road engineering: humans tend to consume the extra engineering measures built in for their safety.
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