{"id":393543960,"date":"2017-06-21T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=393543960"},"modified":"2017-06-21T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T21:46:00","slug":"the-science-is-clear-more-highways-equals-more-traffic-why-are-dots-still-ignoring-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=393543960","title":{"rendered":"The Science Is Clear: More Highways Equals More Traffic. Why Are DOTs Still Ignoring It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Angie Schmitt, treats Blog<br \/>\nNumerous studies have documented the phenomenon known as induced demand in transportation: Basically, if you build highway lanes, more drivers will come. And yet, transportation agencies rarely account for this effect when planning road projects.<br \/>\nIn a recent paper published by the Transportation Research Record, author Ronald Milam and his research team reviewed the various studies documenting the induced demand effect.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/usa.streetsblog.org\/2017\/06\/21\/the-science-is-clear-more-highways-equals-more-traffic-why-are-dots-still-ignoring-it\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Angie Schmitt, treats Blog Numerous studies have documented the phenomenon known as induced demand in transportation: Basically, if you build highway lanes, more drivers will come. And yet, transportation agencies rarely account for this effect when planning road projects. In a recent paper published by the Transportation Research Record, author Ronald Milam and his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=393543960\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Science Is Clear: More Highways Equals More Traffic. Why Are DOTs Still Ignoring It?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393543960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393543960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393543960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393543960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393543960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393543960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393543960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}