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To: tejek who wrote (454454)	2/5/2009 7:17:23 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576600

Ted, > As soon as a freeway is announced, developers are buying land along the right of way and developing housing. That's why its at capacity when it opens.......developers artificially create the demand. Developers do not have any magic ability to "create the demand." In a car-centric society like ours, people prefer freeways over light rail when given the choice. If the existing freeways are filled to overcapacity (e.g. LA, NY, even Portland and Seattle along the I-5), light rail starts looking like a viable alternative. Tenchusatsu

To: tejek who wrote (454454)	2/13/2009 7:21:36 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576600

As soon as a freeway is announced, developers are buying land along the right of way and developing housing. That's why its at capacity when it opens. To the extent that is true, its just the reason (or really a reason, there is no way that all the demand comes from new development decisions) for my statement being true "The fact that its almost full right away shows that there was real demand for it". The demand might be moved to where the road is being built by the actions of the developers. Well then good. That means we efficiently use the resource of the new road, rather than having a new road that isn't used, while having a bad traffic jam as developers build in areas where new capacity isn't being built.