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#triMet board member calls out #Oregon state #transportation dept #trafficEngineers for clinging to disproven pseudoscience Level of Service aka V/C in #E82ndAve planning. #InducedDemand couched in the "safety" concerns about cars backing-up on the freeway offramps. #Portland metro will never be free of this braindead worship of the highway manual until we remove that authority from ODOT. #ODOTGTFOpdx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kOM0dFcFUU

https://bikeportland.org/2026/02/02/video-trimet-board-member-reminds-odot-to-put-people-over-cars-399176

Why do we design freeways for peak commute time, parking lots for black Friday, but not plan traffic calming and filtering based on car traffic at school dropoff or pickup times? #SchoolStreets #BanCars #InducedDemand

For over a century traffic Engineers have pulled a number out of their ass about how many cars there would be in 20yrs and never even been proven correct despite #InducedDemand filling as many lanes as they keep building.

Loads of excellent public testimony in favor of #BusLanes on #e82ndAve #Portland (Note the comparison to Foster Rd, which several years ago received a road diet while the furniture salesman posted ~"the end is nigh" on the front of his store for 2yrs leading up to it 😆 ) #TriMet #transit #InducedDemand #trafficEngineers #ODOTGTFOpdx

https://youtu.be/cNmC93Vfy3U?t=7832

#InducedDemand, the Fundamental law of traffic congestion that has been repeatedly proven and unrefuted for 70 years, says that everything most highway agencies are doing is a complete waste of time and money, but 🙉 they just keep doing it 🛣️ 🙈💸 just one more lane will fix it bro!! #ClimateDenial #NoMoreFreeways #FuckCars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVq7XOXkg1U

@peterbrown NL seems to prefer precut granite curbs, since apparently they can be moved around every few years and filled with asphalt between (which needs less foundation because the infra doesn't let trucks drive on the bike lanes) or klinkers on low-traffic shared streets (kept low-traffic by proper application of modal filters, another demonstration of #InducedDemand giving you the traffic you build for.)

Like I've said, #InducedDemand works in both directions on all modes. If you make biking, walking, and transit as normal, easy, and convenient as driving, more people will do it. If every bike lane is a door zone and completely vanishes before the end of the block, they won't.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2026/01/09/confirmed-non-driving-infrastructure-creates-induced-demand-too

won't someone think of the freeway widening consultants, sitting by the offramp holding a sign "will draw one more lane for food" #FuckCars #NoMoreFreeways #InducedDemand #ODOTGTFOpdx

Dutch car drivers' association ANWB recycles old myth: "Again more traffic jams [in the Netherlands], but new bitumen prevents too much of an increase". Notes that wider roads temporarily reduced congestion locally, but ignores the fact that they attract more traffic, causing more congestion elsewhere.
https://nos.nl/l/2596113
#induceddemand

Induced demand isnt only a thing in public transport and city planning, i think.

it seems to apply to other human societies and communities too.

before creating a channel for selfies on my friendgroup discord (i know, but you try moving them over smh), nobody posted selfies. Before creating a channel for MMORPGs, nobody posted about their MMO game progress.

You build it, they will come

#UrbanPlanning #CityDesign #Urbanism #PublicTransport #CityPlanning #InducedDemand

My recent letter in Waterford News & Star about Solving Waterford City's Traffic Problems:

https://www.waterford-news.ie/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-solving-waterfords-traffic-problems_arid-80871.html

#Waterford #PublicTransport #Traffic #UrbanDesign #Transport #UrbanPlanning #WaterfordCity #Bus #Train #BusConnects #Traffic #Cars #Ireland #IrishPolitics #Local #LocalMedia #InducedDemand

Waterford News & Star:

Letter to the Editor: Solving Waterford's traffic problems
A key aspect of improving our city centre is to look at how successful cities thrive across the world
Letter to the Editor: Solving Waterford's traffic problems
Whether you agree or disagree with the views expressed or would like to have your own personal opinion aired in public, we’re waiting to hear from you.

In recent days and weeks, many in local media and on social media have been highlighting the horrible traffic congestion faced by those living in and around our city. Alongside these many complaints, some have highlighted supposed ‘solutions’ to the gridlock - conservative suggestions, which ultimately include even more lanes for traffic and additional parking spaces.

There is a better alternative, which is actually based on best-practice in urban planning across Europe; reducing the number of cars on the road by providing additional transport options and by planning for medium-density, mixed-use buildings, which can build thriving, walkable communities.

The traffic congestion in a city like Waterford is not normal. Nor is it normal in Galway, nor in Dublin. This is caused, simply, by too many people driving. And that is due, in part, to a lack of freedom to choose how we want to travel safely and efficiently. I am one such example; despite never once driving anywhere else I've lived, preferring to cycle or use public transport, my life in Waterford is dominated by driving, due to a lack of safe and segregated bike paths, severe urban sprawl, and abysmal public transport for a city the size of Waterford.

Our lack of public transport infrastructure in our cities makes Ireland the clear outlier among European countries. Many similarly-populated cities across our continent have at least one tram line, and a large number of bus routes - with some providing 24-hour coverage.

During my local and general election campaigns, I found 10 French and German cities the size of Waterford which have tramlines. In particular, I highlighted the example of Dessau-Rosslau in Germany, a city of similar size, which contains two tram lines, 14 bus routes, including six night routes, and a commuter rail system.

Maybe, instead of calling to make our city actively worse to exist in by undoing pedestrianisation and adding extra lanes of traffic - we can pressure those in power to build a Waterford Luas along the Cork Road onto the South Quays and out the Dunmore Road, and to implement additional bus routes with a frequency of 5-10 minutes!

That would allow us to actively increase pedestrianisation and actively reduce parking in our city centre - and study after study highlights how, contrary to the assumptions of conservative commentators, increased pedestrianisation and active travel infrastructure actually increases city centre activity and commercial revenues. Put plainly, make our city centre a nice place to exist in and more people will want to exist in it.

At a time when online shopping is hollowing out commercial activity across the world and Kilkenny town is outcompeting us simply by being a lovely place to visit and to exist in, making Waterford City beautiful is more important than ever.

"Die Kreuzung im Bielefelder Süden ist jetzt schon riesig. Für die Massen an Verkehrsteilnehmern, die dort täglich unterwegs sind, reicht das jedoch nicht."

Man ahnt bereits, was das Erfolgsrezept ist, das das Symptom lindern soll:
"Vergrößerung des ohnehin schon beeindruckenden Knotenpunkts auf dann XXL-Maße"

Anders als anderswo gibt es in Bielefeld keine induzierte Nachfrage.
https://www.nw.de/lokal/bielefeld/mitte/24223807_Dauerueberlastete-Kreuzung-in-Bielefeld-Gute-Fortschritte-bei-Grundstuecksverhandlungen.html €

#onemorelane #onemorelanewillfixit #bielefeld #induceddemand

@knord so "details matter" and a lot of the challenge, IMO, is to get into that level of the design and get #trafficEngineers to offer the right options into the beginning of the process, prioritizing safety and access above car speeds, and in the context of current/future/desired land use. That all requires some acceptance of how #InducedDemand and understandig how actual drivers behave, so we have a long way to go & may well build a shitload of bad roundabouts that aren't good to bike either.

Who could possibly have predicted this? #InducedDemand #MoarRoads

@AndrewHenry #InducedDemand

Meanwhile, NY was *this close* to spending a billion dollars to temporarily save 6 minutes for drivers. Until the lanes filled up again. When have my 6 minutes ever mattered to NYSDOT? #InducedDemand

"If you build just for cars, you're going to get cars. If you build it, they will come. It's called #InducedDemand. We've all seen the image of LA highways that keep building more lanes & they just keep getting jammed with traffic. Has there ever been a time where Calgary didn't have congestion?"

https://www.podcastics.com/episode/383543/link/

#yyc #yyccc #ClimateChange #yycbike #ClimatePolicy #Urbanism #15MinuteCities #cdnpoli #abpoli #BikeLanes #ClimateSolutions

"If you build just for cars, you're going to get cars. If you build it, they will come. It's called #InducedDemand. We've all seen the image of LA highways that keep building more lanes & they just keep getting jammed with traffic. Has there ever been a time where Calgary didn't have congestion?"

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2jfr7qhenekca6f6qtjgwdr4/post/3lyzya54ve22m

#A100nichtmituns #induceddemand „One more lane will fix it.“ Not. Wer kein Instagram hat/mag: 👇 de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induzie...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6lvijdwkz4hk7b3eelocf76m/post/3lzscyuom2s2d

Induzierte Nachfrage – Wikiped...

„Als Nächstes soll im Oktober Richtung Friedrichshain eine weitere Autospur entstehen, indem die bisherigen Radwege über die Brücke zu einem zusammengelegt werden.“ 😧

#nichtmituns

Fahrraddemo Mittwoch 01.10.25 🔥
@RespectCyclists @ADFC_Berlin

#induceddemand #radwege #bikelane #a100wegbassen

https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2025/09/berlin-elsenbruecke-treptow-friedrichshain-stau-baustelle-verzoegerung.html

#induceddemand

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