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Alan S. Mazer wrote:

> Easily.  It's basic economics.  When you lower the cost of something, 
> more people will buy it.  

Not unless demand increases for some other reason.  I don't know anybody
who wants to drive back and forth between Pasadena and Long Beach just
for the hell of it.  A lot of people have to commute regardless, and
they will do so with or without the freeway.  A few weirdos might wake
up and say "hey, I can drive there on a freeway now, so what the hell"
but I can't imagine that this contingent is enough to make a sizable
dent in overall traffic congestion levels.

What happens in practice is that freeways like the 710 get delayed and
finally open 30-odd years after they were needed, so they do fill up
quickly due to the *existing* traffic.  Whether or not this is the case
with the 710 remains to be seen, but given the choice between a shortage
of n freeways and the existing shortage of n + 1 freeways, I prefer the
former.