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Originally Posted by authentiCLE
You know now. He's right, and it's true of other transit options too. You increase capacity and ease of use, you'll get more usage. It's why increasing bus/train frequency increases overall ridership. People that wouldn't have ridden before, will now consider it.
Increasing lane miles doesn't alleviate traffic problems. You'd think decades of reality would make this obvious but here we are. People are willfully ignorant.
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Wow, condescending much? You're forgetting that a hell of a lot of the traffic going along the Kennedy/Ryan and Eisenhower are through-traffic, in other words traffic that is independent of increased transit options and frequency.
Aaron (Glowrock)