U.K.'s Transport Secretary knows nothing of induced demand, claims any attempt to row back on road building is 'waging a war on the motorist.'
Lewis Mumford's famous quote is paraphrased from an article he wrote in The New Yorker, 1955.Writing in 1932, the British town planner Thomas Sharp pointed out the futility of building more roads:
A motorist is apt to complain of the overcrowded condition of the road if he finds he has not continually got a whole mile-long stretch of it to himself, but is one of a widely spaced and rapidly moving queue of half a dozen or so. He will declare there is no pleasure in motoring under such conditions. He will search his map for some alternative route by quiet lanes where he can speed along with the road to himself.
Famously, Southern California built hundreds of miles of wide, expansive freeways, but soon after they were built they filled to capacity, as can be seen from this 1950s film of bumper to bumper queues:in 1955, Mumford suggested that “people … find it hard to believe that the cure for congestion is not more facilities for congestion.
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