> In fact, planners and economists call road building “induced demand” because it encourages people to hop into their cars instead of walking or taking mass tra

> In fact, planners and economists call road building “induced demand” because it encourages people to hop into their cars instead of walking or taking mass transit. In the Bay Area, building transit infrastructure is expensive and time consuming. Case in point: a five mile extension including one new train station of an existing BART line costs $890 million and took seven years to build. [1] The resulting extension is expected to increase in ridership by 5000 to 7000 daily trips in the next decade. [2] There are currently 400,000 daily automobile trips from East Bay to and from Santa Clara County. [2] [1] http://www.bart.gov/about/projects/wsx http://www.bart.gov/about/projects/wsx [2] http://www.bart.gov/about/projects/wsx/chronology http://www.bart.gov/about/projects/wsx/chronology