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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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)

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 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