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Induced Demand Debunked (urbanreforminstitute.org)

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[–] RubberElectrons 3 points 1 month ago

None of this drek addresses why we want to expand mass transit & tele-work: the planet emphatically cannot handle unloading millions of years of sequestered carbon over a few hundred years.

Decentralization is a good thing, or bad, it really depends on the ultimate goal. Do you have to drive? Go ahead. If there's a train or weather's nice & you can ride an ebike right to your job, why not build that mode out too?

Induced demand is real, once a new path is built for travel, people will use it and over time evaluate it's ease of use. Even trains suffer from it.