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Induced demand means that more roads won't fix traffic. It will however, mean more people get to travel. There is real value in that.

• erik_seaberg 7y ago
  Latent demand does exist (not "induced", it was always there!) but it isn't infinite. There's a point where you could actually have enough supply. They just don't want to spend that much money and knock down that many buildings (give up Manhattan's density), so they say it wouldn't work.
  • maccam94 7y ago
    Demand is only limited by travel time. The amount of traffic will rise to the maximum amount of time people are willing to endure reaching their destination.
    • devit 7y ago
      It's also limited by the number of people that want to pass through that road per unit of time.
  • adrianN 7y ago
    Sure, if you replace everything that makes people want to go to a place with more roads, then eventually supply will match demand.