>>1363056>that has never, ever reduced the amount of traffic entering a cityI mean, this is objectively wrong. Both because better rail, and by extension, public transport, allows more people to enter a city (by using the definition of traffic as "movement of people") and because if even 1% of people switch to taking a train instead of car, that is less traffic on the road.
And here is a paper analysing the impact of public transport on traffic congestion in Melbourne, Australia, proving exactly that.
>https://www.atrf.info/papers/2017/files/ATRF2017_Abridged_Paper_42.pdf>Melbourne’s PT operations were found to contribute to reduce the number of severely congested links and moderately congested links by more than 60% and 7% respectively. Vehicle time travelled and total delay on the road network also reduces by around 48%. Hence, the findings show that PT operations significantly contribute to alleviate vehicle traffic congestion.