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Brent Toderian (brenttoderian@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 03:41:15 JST Brent Toderian

“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10%, then the amount of driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more driving. Via @WIRED https://t.co/mZbJ0vNhsH
https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/
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1. What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse
  
  from Adam Mann
  
  The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. Though some traffic engineers made note of this phenomenon at least as early as the 1960s, it is only in recent years that social scientists have collected enough data to show how this happens pretty much every time we build new roads.

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