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Oh, I certainly understand induced demand. It's less a matter of the roads being designed with 13 lanes and more the configuration and lack of other routes for the traffic. I'm fairly certain there will not be any means of transportation available directly to this area, either. There's a rail line close enough that some people will walk it, but suburbanites legitimately do not understand the concept of taking the train anywhere if they have to walk 10 minutes to reach it, and there's no possibility of extending the line. There's a bus line that runs through there, but that's about it. I will, of course, see what the plans are and watch the presentation before making any real impressions, but adding more traffic is...well, I suppose the argument here is that people will find a way to alter their behavior.

And in effect, that also just recently happened. The road passing by along the edge of the property goes over a bridge at one end and that bridge had been out for most of last year. They just rebuilt it. But in the meanwhile, all the traffic that usually went through that area had to be redirected. It was absolutely terrible for the first two weeks, as everyone tried to take the very next road over...and then people adapted. To an extent, at least. It was still worse than if that road had been open the whole time, just not nearly as severe.

foolm0r0n posted...

unless the green part is crazy huge.

It's a little over a square mile. (690 acres.) It's a very large square cut out of the center of our slice of suburban sprawl. (The area where I live is about the only part of the county that can't really be described as sprawl.)

Colegreen_c12 posted...

A duplex?

I guess that's the right word. I called it that once to a contractor before they came over, and they got super confused, telling me that's when you have a home above another home, so I've steered away from calling it that. But that guy was probably just being dumb.

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Anyway, gonna head across town and see what info they have available before the meeting.