<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bagacrap</author><text>They&amp;#x27;ve recently connected DTLA and Santa Monica via trains and I don&amp;#x27;t think the 10 has improved at all. The problem is that most everyone prefers to drive and the only thing limiting their willingness to drive is traffic itself. Thus, traffic will never get better than whatever the masses deem acceptably bad (and their tolerance seems ludicrously high in LA).</text><parent_chain><item><author>9erdelta</author><text>In LA all you need is a train from Sherman Oaks into one of the stations in Santa Monica or Culver City. That would cut way down on the 405 congestion. It gets tedious reading articles that come up with &amp;quot;stop funding public transit&amp;quot; as a conclusion. In math class that would be the &amp;quot;trivial&amp;quot; therefore useless answer. Seeing as how cities have more roadway now than ever, yet congestion is arguably getting worse...Clearly, building more roads doesn&amp;#x27;t work. Because WE HAVE built more roads. The Sepulveda pass in LA is not that old, yet it is so congested as to be useless every single day of the week, at almost every hour of the day (ok maybe this is an exaggeration).&lt;p&gt;One thing I have noticed is Google Maps will suggest going off a main street for a few blocks then merge back into the said main route. This cuts off everyone who&amp;#x27;s been waiting in line, and potentially puts me in a situation of having to make a left across perhaps 4 lanes of congested traffic, with no light or turn signal. This _IS_ kind of assinine, and it certainly wouldn&amp;#x27;t hurt for Google&amp;#x2F;Waze et. al. to feel some pressure to cut these suggestions out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The War on Waze</title><url>http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/25/the-war-on-waze</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cleansy</author><text>&amp;gt; Clearly, building more roads doesn&amp;#x27;t work&lt;p&gt;There is a great video[1] by Wendover Productions about how to fix traffic, explaining exactly this effect. tl;dr: The more road capacity you supply, the more traffic will come since potential demand will &amp;quot;always&amp;quot; outstrip supply.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=N4PW66_g6XA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=N4PW66_g6XA&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>9erdelta</author><text>In LA all you need is a train from Sherman Oaks into one of the stations in Santa Monica or Culver City. That would cut way down on the 405 congestion. It gets tedious reading articles that come up with &amp;quot;stop funding public transit&amp;quot; as a conclusion. In math class that would be the &amp;quot;trivial&amp;quot; therefore useless answer. Seeing as how cities have more roadway now than ever, yet congestion is arguably getting worse...Clearly, building more roads doesn&amp;#x27;t work. Because WE HAVE built more roads. The Sepulveda pass in LA is not that old, yet it is so congested as to be useless every single day of the week, at almost every hour of the day (ok maybe this is an exaggeration).&lt;p&gt;One thing I have noticed is Google Maps will suggest going off a main street for a few blocks then merge back into the said main route. This cuts off everyone who&amp;#x27;s been waiting in line, and potentially puts me in a situation of having to make a left across perhaps 4 lanes of congested traffic, with no light or turn signal. This _IS_ kind of assinine, and it certainly wouldn&amp;#x27;t hurt for Google&amp;#x2F;Waze et. al. to feel some pressure to cut these suggestions out.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The War on Waze</title><url>http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/25/the-war-on-waze</url></story>