More highways, more cars?


  • Letters
  • Tuesday, 28 May 2019

THESE is a common saying in the public transport policy debate that, “supplying more highways simply creates more demand for their use”.

No. This is wrong. This is lazy thinking resulting from a simplistic comparison between an increase in highways and an increase in the number of cars.

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