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Cohen quoted in article on Caltrans and induced demand

Fellow(s): Stu Cohen

Stuart Cohen, executive director of TransForm, has spent a lot of time thinking about induced demand as well. “We know it exists,” he says. “That’s why we put up new transit routes—because we want to induce demand for transit. But we also know that new roadways induce more car trips.”

“We already have enough lane miles in California,” he pointed out. “We just need to use them better. If we had more than 1.2 people in every car and everyone wasn’t trying to use the lanes for the same few hours every day, we could avoid the vast majority of road widenings.”

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