Just thinking and observing

 Work expands to fill the time allotted for it. 

That is the result of computers for everything. Before computers, when the US made things through physical manufacturing, a quota set in, say, a steel mill was pretty much always the same. At a mill producing pipe, workers knew how many hours of labor were required to produce a specific number of pipes.

When computers were allowed to take over, service replaced production. In an eight-hour job, supervisors often found there was not enough actual work being done. In order to fill those eight hours with actual work, the number of tasks were expanded.

Yesterday, noticing the number of cars and trucks on the roads and the amount of apartments, houses and businesses going up, I decided on another rule: Traffic increases with the number of lanes provided for it.