Re: FWD: Legislator Is Driven to Lift Limits on Carpool Lanes

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From: Jeffrey Siegal
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:54

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David desJardins wrote:

> John David Galt <jdg@diogenes.sacramento.ca.us> writes:
> 
>>>Do you accept the premise that *some* highway construction projects do
>>>actually increase total congestion?  Either by inducing more new demand
>>>than they can fulfill?  Or by stimulating new demand in a place that is
>>>poorly served?
>>>
>>I dispute it.  All so-called "induced demand" is just pre-existing demand
>>that was unmet before.
>>
> 
> We can use your terminology instead.  The terms make no difference.  The
> point remains the same: building roads can create, rather than reduce
> congestion.
> 
> You have only to ask anyone who has lived on a small road which suddenly
> becomes the endpoint of a new major road, and becomes congested, when it
> wasn't before.

However, that doesn't demostrate that "total congestion" has increased. 
   It may have only moved from elsewhere.

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From: Jeffrey Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com>
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Subject: Re: FWD: Legislator Is Driven to Lift Limits on Carpool Lanes
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