The widest road in the world has 18 lanes with a width of 148 meters. Why is there still a serious traffic jam?

World's widest street: Avenue 9 de Julio spans city blocks in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Named to commemorate Argentina's independence on July 9, 1816. So gave this street such a very unique name. It is 4.6 kilometers long, 148 meters wide, and has 18 lanes in both directions.

The flat and wide avenue is a beautiful landscape in a prosperous city. The French Champs-Elysées, with 8 lanes in each direction, has always been recognized as the most beautiful street in France, attracting the attention of tourists from all over the world.

The "July 9th Avenue" we are going to introduce today imitates the style of the Champs-Elysees Avenue in design, but it is larger and more magnificent than the Champs-Elysees Avenue in terms of scale. The 9th of July Avenue is located in Buenos Aires, the capital and political and economic center of Argentina. This avenue has 18 parallel lanes in each direction, with a total width of about 148 meters, which is currently the widest lane in the world.

Here is full of thriving and prosperous atmosphere. Many classical buildings on the street, such as Don Quixote sculptures, etc., as well as the Buenos Aires city monument in the center of the street, are quite worth seeing. However, the management of the 9th of July Avenue is not as standardized as that of the Champs Elysees.

In fact, at the beginning of its construction, this avenue was not as wide as it is now. It gradually expanded to its current size under the huge pressure of traffic congestion. But even though there are now as many as 36 lanes, the traffic problems here have not been solved, and even additional difficulties such as steering, lane changing, and temporary parking have been added, which has deepened the contradiction between traffic and pedestrians.

Road expansion is one of the measures to alleviate traffic problems, but it is not the only means, and doing too much can be counterproductive. Buenos Aires still needs to be strengthened in the management of road order, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in rail transit, public transportation and pedestrian passages.