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To: TimF who wrote (456467)	2/14/2009 1:14:47 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576265

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". Yes, way. There was a couple of things going on.......the country needed housing after WW II. Between the Depression and WW II, little housing had been built. GIs were coming home, getting married and having kids. Much of the housing was being built on the perimeter of cities. Freeways were the way to bring those people into the cities. Much of any freeway was been in rural or semi rural areas. And most of the capacity that resulted when it opened was from building along the right of way. There is no question this happened......its part of American history. 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. And now we're doing the same thing with light rail which is even more efficient. Glad you're on board.