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So, the future of less traffic congestion is to be like the developing countries:

India: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM

Vietnam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr5Gssaxl6g

Hmmm... I'm not sure about this, Batman.

The Vietname video reminded me of chapter 2 of Ikaruga, my favorite video game stage and not a good model for urban traffic planners.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-zSi0xt9fY

Aren't you assuming it wouldn't be even worse with traffic controls? Developing countries deal with the rapid increase of car ownership leading to road capacity issues pretty quickly.

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