induced demand
Streetsblog California
America Is Spending Billions Just to Make Traffic Worse
Induced demand isn't news to Streetsblog readers. But a new report from Transportation for America illustrates exactly how stupid lane widenings really are.
March 11, 2020
Metro Construction Chief: Most Metro Highway Projects Don’t Affect Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Richard Clarke: "Most Metro highway projects... don't affect Vehicle Miles Traveled or greenhouse gas emissions, because they're focused on specific locations where congestion already exists"
February 24, 2020
Caltrans Will Account for New Driving Produced by its Transportation Projects
A "profound change" in how transportation impacts are accounted for is coming, in line with efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and driving and increase biking, walking, and transit trips
November 25, 2019
Highway Boondoggles 2019: Nine Projects That Should Never Happen
Here's the thing with highway expansion projects: They're big. They're expensive. And they have limited benefit. Our friends at US PIRG present their annual report.
June 18, 2019
Richmond Bridge Wins Award for Encouraging Future Traffic Increases
A plan to widen the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge somehow won an award for easing congestion even though it is certain to increase traffic.
June 12, 2019
What Happened When Larry Hogan Tried to Claim Wider Highways Would Help the Climate
A researcher speaks out against the Maryland governor's misuse of his data.
June 7, 2019
A Great Big Freeway — Thanks to Induced Demand
Los Angeles is getting what it paid for when it widened 10 miles of its most infamous freeways — another lane of traffic.
May 8, 2019
Caltrans Lies Again: Widening 5 Freeway Will “Minimize Congestion… Reduce Pollution”
Caltrans presented another misleading video claiming that their I-5 Freeway widening projects will "reduce pollution" and "minimize congestion." Given the past 80 years of highway building have resulted in increases in congestion increases and climate-threatening pollution, it is clear that Caltrans is lying.
April 22, 2019
New Tool Makes it Easy to Estimate Added Travel from New Highway Lanes
Research on California highways shows that adding highway lanes induces more travel; this tool shows how much, on which roads, where.
March 15, 2019
Another Caltrans Lie: Video Claims Widening 5 Freeway Reduces Pollution, Congestion
It is jarring that nearly two decades into the twenty-first century, Caltrans is still making claims that freeway widening will somehow curb pollution and reduce congestion. These are lies.
April 16, 2018
