Tired of urbanists using induced demand to argue against highway projects. All transportation induces demand if it's done right!
— Market Urbanism (@MarketUrbanism) October 10, 2013
Like saying, "Why build more subways if we're just going to attract so much development that they'll be as crowded as the current ones?"
— Market Urbanism (@MarketUrbanism) October 10, 2013
The argument against highways should be that they induce demand that we don't want, not that they induce demand, period.
— Market Urbanism (@MarketUrbanism) October 10, 2013
4 comments:
'our' government doesn't want people to drive.
If they didn't want people to drive, they would not have given tons of money and support to the Interstate Highway System and other road projects, would charge more for public parking and not require private developments to provide it, charge for pollution costs, etc.
Also, the point of those tweets is that highways have negative effects, like increased traffic congestion near it, pollution, etc
Our local government as in Portland.
The federal government is only interested intaking tax dollars and funneling it into private business. Hence the rail obsession
And many of the pro-car policies are local (or state-level). Parking and land use/development are big ones.
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