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

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From: David Masterson
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 17:33

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>>>>> David desJardins writes:

> Take any measure of congestion (e.g., total traffic delays, the
> difference between the normal time that trips would take with no
> other traffic, and the time that they take in actual conditions).
> That's just a number.  If you don't vary anything else (e.g., the
> population of the area does not change), and you build some new
> highways or expand some existing highways, then that number might go
> up or it might go down.  Some projects do make it go up, for the
> reasons that I described.  Even though they do increase the carrying
> capacity of the particular stretch of road involved.

And your point is?  To paraphrase Bill Clinton, I think this would
depend upon your definition of "some".  If "some" is a few percent of
the total projects, then your point that "some" projects actually hurt
congestion has little impact as the claim could be made that the
project was flawed.

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David Masterson                dmaster AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer               Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering           Sunnyvale, CA

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From: David Masterson <dmaster@synopsys.com>
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Subject: Re: FWD: Legislator Is Driven to Lift Limits on Carpool Lanes
Date: 26 Dec 2001 09:33:21 -0800
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