Houston spent nearly 3 billion dollars widening a single freeway to 26 lanes to kill its traffic — and within three years the drive was taking up to 51 per cent longer, proof of a rule planners keep r

Picture a road so wide that from the middle of it you cannot make out what shops are on the other side. Twenty-six lanes of concrete laid flat across west Houston, wide enough to land a jumbo jet on. Now picture it at five thirty on a Tuesday, packed... [6419 chars]