If travel demand has peaked, new roads won’t create traffic!

Keith Peat, East Midlands regional co-ordinator, Association of British Drivers, Sutton on Sea LN12
25 June 2010
If personal travel demand is saturated, we can safely build new roads without worrying about generated traffic, says Keith Peat
If personal travel demand is saturated, we can safely build new roads without worrying about generated traffic, says Keith Peat

 

How nice to read that at last an academic, Professor Metz, has realised that there is not an infinite possibility for people to just be travelling. This exposes the lie behind most arguments against increasing our road infrastructure “that this will only increase the vehicles to fill it”.

The fact is that the vehicle explosion since the 1950s was coincidental to the road building and not a consequence of it. With two and three car families, that explosion has long since passed. We...

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