Induced Demand & Roadway Widening: Everything You Always Wanted to Know (and Weren't Afraid to Ask)

Have you read anything or watched anything about induced demand or did you just read the expression and figured it all out by yourself? ▶ this video

Books are not a finite resource? Obviously there is a finite number of trees but there are enough for it not to be a bottleneck. Land on the hand is a finite resource, especially in large, urban cities. There is no way to design a highway or other car infrastructure that will meet the demands of any reasonably sized city without dedicating an unreasonable amount of land to cars. Anyway, Ray explains it better than I could and he agrees that the term is bad: ▶ this video

The problem is that "inducing demand" for people who would otherwise take public transit doesn't actually increase efficiency. Putting more cars on the road is not necessarily a net benefit. See this video from CityNerd for more details: ▶ this video