http://austinist.com/2005/05/12/toot_toot_beep_beep.php All comments for Toot, toot, beep, beep en-us 2009 austin_allen Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:56:07 -0600 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss allen@escapeest.com allen@escapeest.com 60 http://austinist.com/2005/05/12/toot_toot_beep_beep.php#comment-220728 http://austinist.com/2005/05/12/toot_toot_beep_beep.php#comment-220728 Comments Thu, 12 May 2005 08:04:16 -0600 <p>The road warriors are just plain wrong - highway construction in the 1980s and 1990s DID exceed population growth around here; the problem is that new development was of types which increased the amount people drove by such a huge amount that NO feasible amount of construction could keep up. IE: this proves not that we needed more roads, but that we needed less sprawl and more infill. Jeb Boyt crunched the numbers quite well at his site: http://monkeymuse.blogspot.com/2005/05/urban-mobility-and-big-lie-texas.html and I covered it at mine: http://mdahmus.thebaba.com/blog/archives/000149.html</p>