Urbanist Twitter: it has come to my attention that lots of normies do not understand the basic principle of demand destruction (the flip side of induced demand), ie, when streets are closed to cars, traffic does not simply move to side streets -- some of it disappears. So ...
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@drvolts Some who have been exposed to these ideas for 15 years or more find anti-car rhetoric to be a weird fetish of misconstruing what works well in Shanghai or Europe.
The rail that urbanists demanded and built blocks from my house is a total failure, terribly designed, mostly empty and considered unsafe by those who wanted it. Thanks, non-engineers.
