Brent ToderianDec 17
“The phenomenon is known as induced demand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.” #InducedTraffic

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Daniel BowenJul 13, 2025
#Melbourne already has more motorways than many cities of its size. The massively expensive $26b North East Link is known as "the missing link" ... it sounds kinda final, but just as that one gets built, there's always another one being planned 🙁 #InducedTraffic
Flatbush Gardener 🌈Jan 11, 2025
#SunkCostFallacy
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ny5w2k6brb2kdubxnevke6li/post/3lfgzzpw3qk2x
[email protected] - Attention cities & states — remember this as you reconsider EVERY single massively expensive freeway and road widening project you’ve been working on for years, but very likely need to cancel in light of the #CimateEmergency, and the fact that they don’t actually work. #inducedTraffic #ClimateCrisis
Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian.bsky.social)

Attention cities & states — remember this as you reconsider EVERY single massively expensive freeway and road widening project you’ve been working on for years, but very likely need to cancel in light of the #CimateEmergency, and the fact that they don’t actually work. #inducedTraffic #ClimateCrisis

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Brent ToderianJan 11, 2025
Attention cities & states — remember this as you reconsider EVERY single massively expensive freeway and road widening project you’ve been working on for years, but very likely need to cancel in light of the #CimateEmergency, and the fact that they don’t actually work. #inducedTraffic #ClimateCrisis
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NSW.BiodiversityNov 26, 2024

Tiny orange seastar is disrupting the path to ‘progress’.
Move seastar out of the way to “minimise disruption” to traffic?

The live-bearing sea star has been vanishing from Tasmania's waters for some time. Now the marine creature has to be moved out of the way to fix traffic woes on a marine causeway.
Plan is to relocate the species on the brink of extinction to aquariums during road construction. >>
https://au.news.yahoo.com/tiny-and-rare-marine-creatures-to-be-moved-from-path-of-major-aussie-road-project-011101333.html
#ParvulastraVivipara #seastar #marine #biodiversity #roads #sprawl #traffic #cars #congestion #InducedTraffic #progress

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Show threadQuino Schütz – R.i.P. @NatenomOct 7, 2024
@eliasp Verrückt, dass sich #InducedTraffic auch zum Positiven einsetzen lässt, oder? ("Man bekommt den Verkehr, den man sich einlädt.")
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Eric DohertyAug 21, 2024
Got a letter published in The Province today. "Why spend billions to make traffic congestion worse, and make it more likely that more towns like Jasper will burn?" https://theprovince.com/opinion/letters/letters-to-the-province-more-car-lanes-on-highway-1-mean-more-greenhouse-gases #bcpoli #InducedTraffic #publictransit #climateemergency
Letters to The Province: More car lanes on Highway 1 mean more greenhouse gases

Opinion: More car lanes on Highway 1 mean more greenhouse gases

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Marco van Burgsteden 🍋Apr 12, 2024

@SandraDeHaan Toch vind ik het bijzonder dat een fenomeen dat al bekend was in de jaren 50 van de vorige eeuw (Lewis Mumford) nog steeds als "nieuws" en iets verrassends wordt gepresenteerd.

Niets ten nadele van Bert, die nooit te beroerd is om deze open deur vakkundig in te trappen in de hoop dat het volk en onze politici het ooit gaan onthouden.

#InducedTraffic

JesseFeb 5, 2024

"Rozelle Interchange woes to continue for months."

Basically they're betting on enough drivers giving up on the $3.7 billion road and taking other transport.

https://archive.is/b4i3t

#CarsRuinCities #inducedTraffic #JustOneMoreLane #sydney

JesseNov 27, 2023

Sydney's #WestConnex road tunnel project opened this morning.

"My commute will take me an hour-and-a-half and normally it takes me 30 minutes."

$21Billion well spent...I guess.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-27/nsw-rozelle-interchange-signage-change-open/103153714

#CarsRuinCities #JustOneMoreLane #inducedTraffic #Sydney

Rozelle Interchange sign 'confusing' motorists to be changed, peak-hour traffic delays reported in Sydney's inner west

The Rozelle Interchange opened on Sunday morning and there was traffic congestion on roads in the city's inner west on its first weekday peak-hour commute on Monday.

ABC News