I think induced demand actually is a useful concept, but I've also always wondered about its absolute and uncritical application: somebody says "we should add a

I think induced demand actually is a useful concept, but I've also always wondered about its absolute and uncritical application: somebody says "we should add a road here", and gets shut down with "but adding a lane only adds traffic!" Sure, sometimes - but obviously that doesn't scale ad absurdum. So at some point you need to take a more nuanced position on what the actual latent demand is (as this article discusses), what the actual bottleneck is, and what the alternatives are to solve it.