The city leadership decided throwing tons of events would boost business in the city. So you took this kinda quiet college town and juiced up with an endless parade of car races, festivals, and corporate events without ever building out public infrastructure.
On top of that, downtown kept expanding well past the point that the traffic can accommodate it.
So you just get these nightmarish jams all through the city constantly.
Austin went this way back in the '00s.
The city leadership decided throwing tons of events would boost business in the city. So you took this kinda quiet college town and juiced up with an endless parade of car races, festivals, and corporate events without ever building out public infrastructure.
On top of that, downtown kept expanding well past the point that the traffic can accommodate it.
So you just get these nightmarish jams all through the city constantly.