Is Traffic Increasing

I remember once seeing a documentary about Kobe Bryant where he remarked on Los Angeles traffic. When looking at LA, the population density of the city is increasing. More and more people are sharing the same amount of space in LA.

The problem is that a lot of people will be driving their own car. In another 20 years, there will be 2 billion cars in the world. The planet isn’t getting any bigger to accommodate all of this. I guess there will be a growth of smaller cities and remote areas.

The problem is that a lot of people want to live in California. I saw on Quora that 2 billion people would like to live in California. Southern California’s population was growing at 2.3 percent a year in the 1980s and there was a 1.3 percent average growth in 1990s. Going forward, these numbers must be considered very small.

In looking at the question posed here, I would say that traffic is indeed increasing and there is no way of stopping it unless we fundamentally change our thinking.