My daily commute has gotten 15 minutes longer every year for the past five years, and I'm starting to think that building more roads just encourages more people to drive—it's a classic induced demand problem. In my city, they widened the main highway last year, and traffic congestion actually got worse within six months, which blew my mind. But I also can't ignore that my neighbor works a night shift and needs his car because buses don't run after midnight, so public transit isn't a one-size-fits-all answer either. Should we keep investing in road expansion, or is that just throwing money at a problem we've already proven we can't pave our way out of?