David Hansen gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying:

(Motor) traffic is stopped by many things. The greatest cause of delays
to traffic is motorists in cars.

ITYM "traffic"

The second way works in the long term. Transfer some of the trips to
walking, cycling and public transport. One of the ways to do this is to
make buses more attractive. One of the ways of making buses more
attractive is by filling in laybys and installing better stops and bus
boarders in the space the layby used to take up.

Deliberately introducing delays to traffic benefits buses, how? After
all, those self-same buses will be delayed by that traffic, since they're
PART OF THE TRAFFIC, using those same roads and junctions.