devriesp

Agreed, a lot of pieces that talk about "induced traffic" throw claims out like "look, we closed this road and ppl dealt with it... no problem, let's close more". Yes lets.. Reductio ad absurdum .. let's close 50% of the roads b/c apparently people will just "adapt" and we could save a ton of money :)

The reality is people get some marginal benefit from each extra trip the road system allows. People do tend to apparently undervalue their time though.. so there's some point where building more road capacity doesn't make real economic sense. But I don't think we are anywhere close to that point in Seattle...

Yes, but as OP mentions, the article totally discounts any negative affects to QOL.

It's probably limited to some number of click throughs...

Ahh... please leave this in as an option. The funny terminology is one of the best parts of Phabricator! I think removing this is sad...