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The concept of induced demand shifts the government from a role where it manages the supply of road to serve motorists, to a role where it exists to manage traf
by wolpoli 4y ago
The concept of induced demand shifts the government from a role where it manages the supply of road to serve motorists, to a role where it exists to manage traffic. The critical differences in that the motorists are no longer meaningful stakeholders in the discussion, but merely as part of traffic.
- tadfisher 4y agoThose motorists overwhelmingly demand solutions to traffic. The folks losing their homes to freeway expansions are the ones who should have the largest stake.
- wolpoli 4y agoI agree that folks losing their homes to freeway expansions have stake in this. I am pointing out that the language shaped discourse against motorists. This is not the only example either. Motorists are compared with rats in other situations [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_running https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_running