Road design, transportation and walkability

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If this is WLUs first time hearing of induced demand then I think you should be happy with his approach of attempting to understand "both sides" and trying to create an informed opinion. If the facts are truly, obviously, and undeniably on "our side", then you shouldn't have much problem convincing him of that. The self-righteous "the facts are obvious, stop being an idiot" approach isn't going to convince anyone.

If a person asserts that a particular concept is bullshit without even knowing the name of the concept, I'm very comfortable thinking that person is an idiot. Googling "induced demand" takes less than a minute to get to a lot of good information.

There's nothing wrong with being ignorant, but there is a lot wrong with demanding that a position based on ignorance be treated the same as positions based on real scientific work.