• @ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world
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    166 months ago

    Um acttschually, we knew about induced demand as early as 1920, but the government just doesn’t care about science. (It used to be called traffic generation)

    • @psud@aussie.zone
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      46 months ago

      Part of it is that the organisations that design and build roads are also the ones who assess whether a road is needed. No big surprise that they “forget” about induced demand