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16

More Roads Equals More Congestion

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From Dom’s Plan B blog here’s an interesting take on what happens to traffic when you reduce disincentives to driving like congestion.

“Induced traffic” represents new car trips created by, for example, a road widening that would have not occurred had we not widened the road. The “triple convergence,” as described by Anthony Downs, occurs when, for example, a road is widened, which attracts new car trips to the widened road that were previously using other routes, attracts car trips during rush hour that were previously avoiding rush hour, and/or were non-car trips that are now car trips due to the widening.  More…

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  1. New Urbanism News for 8-17-2010 | Mixed Use Development on August 17th, 2010 10:34 am

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