“Whatever a traffic engineer tells you to do, do the opposite and you’ll improve your community”— Fred Kent
This seems horribly irresponsible. “Let’s not listen to the guy who knows network-flow optimization”.
Many engineers would suggest to build up the capacity of the road network. This would be better for cars, but not everybody. Congestion can be a good thing if you want to change the model spit of the people using the system.