When driving in the Lakewood area, I don’t recall much room to build new highways or even add new lanes to existing roads without encroaching on homes and businesses. Many crowded suburban communities have had some success with discouraging auto traffic by offering free local minbus service circulating through the residential and shopping areas, introducing bike-sharing and even scooter sharing (which may be better for the younger boys and girls). Using more Uber and Lfyt for short-trips to the market, shul or mikvah might also help. There is no single “fix” and building more highways rarely solves the problem, even if could be done. Some of the other posters noted an unopular but ultimately necessary long-term fix that would simply tell yidden looking for housing “Sorry, but Lakewood is full, move elsewhere” and enforce that reality by denying new building permits at higher density.i
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