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> “Building a hospital in our town just caused more hospital visits. Stop building hospitals!” People don’t walk into hospitals in 100+ square foot bubble suit
by scrose 5y ago
> “Building a hospital in our town just caused more hospital visits. Stop building hospitals!”
People don’t walk into hospitals in 100+ square foot bubble suits for fun
> There is a limited number of people who want to drive on the road at a particular time and if you build to that, there will be no more demand. If you’re not convinced, just look at the empty highways at night.
Do you realize you just described the importance of recognizing induced demand? If you just ‘build roads to capacity’(and what even is ‘capacity? 0 traffic?), you end up with ‘cities’ that are just miles of parking lots with 10+ parking spaces for every person. You end up with highways that cost literally billions to build, billions to maintain and billions to extend every few years as the new peak amount of cars gets higher.
- kortilla 5y ago> People don’t walk into hospitals in 100+ square foot bubble suits for fun You missed the point or don’t understand what induced demand implies. > Do you realize you just described the importance of recognizing induced demand? “Induced demand” is just supply and demand, there is nothing special. You didn’t understand supply and demand in the first place if you think this isn’t regular supply and demand curves. Make a new passenger train that goes from LA to Vegas that takes 16 hours. Check the ridership. Now make it take 2 hours and check again. Neither train “induced” the demand. It was already there because people travel between the cities (see the flights). People who hide behind “induced demand” as an excuse just don’t want to admit that the demand is already there and they are just NIMBYs who don’t care about lower income people with families who need to commute for work. That’s fine, but at least admit it.