[Vision2020] Subject: downtown

[Philip Cook]

> >From: roger hayes <rhayes at turbonet.com>
> >To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> >Subject: [Vision2020] downtown
> >Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 08:14:27 -0700
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> >The question I pose is, why when we open more lanes of travel does it
> >seem to breed more cars?  One would think having more lanes of travel
> >would dilute the volume. The movie axiom seems to apply. "If you build
> >it, they will come."
> >
> >Roger Hayes


The phenomenon is called "induced traffic" or "induced travel." Give it a Google.

Philip