Highway to hell? Plan for Germany’s biggest motorway sparks anger, critics fearful the “monstrosity” will increase climate-damaging emissions, worsen noise pollution and harm biodiverse habitats.

3 comments

1. Hashtag induced demand.

   [Just one more lane will fix it.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/50buv4/katy_freeway_i10_in_houston_tx_widest_freeway_on/)

   I feel like it’s so well known that adding lanes doesn’t fix road traffic that they must be doing this out of spite. Or more likely due to heavy lobbying from the auto industry, the fossil fuel industry and their many shills in think tanks etc

2. The world doesn’t need more highways. It needs less vehicles

3. opening coal plants and expanding highways is par for the course from europe’s leader on climate change.