As has been proved time and time again, more highway lanes don’t mean less traffic, but that did not stop the city of Houston, Texas, from ending up with an even more gargantuan Katy Freeway in an attempt to accommodate an increasing number of cars.
A viral Reddit thread in which one user shared a picture of the freeway baffled other Redditors, who were impressed by the sheer magnitude of the world’s widest freeway, as well as just how ineffective its 26 lanes are at keeping traffic moving.
“Houstonian here. Driving on Houston highways is wonderful … at night. At almost any time during the day, there is traffic, even with all those lanes,” wrote one Redditor…