"It is hoped it will reduce traffic on I-91" Look, when you make a train that's supposed to benefit drivers...you usually make a bad train:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVHvkrmsX6s …
If you achieve this; if you make the train a clearly superior choice--and if, as I said, induced demand didn't exist--then anyone who had the option would take the train instead of driving, and traffic on I-91 would drop. They won't do that for an inferior choice!
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Now, the thing about induced demand is that *even if* you build the railway to be a competitive--or superior--option, the people who switch from driving to riding would be quickly replaced on I-91 by people who previously avoided it because of its traffic!
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That's the thing about "superior options;" superior for what trips? I've talked so far as though I-91 is always the best option and as though the train is the only other one--but there are tons of other roads in the area, and no one road is universally the most convenient.
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So, to wrap up: 1) if you reduce traffic on I-91, you increase the overall convenience of that road, and people who previously avoided it will start using it (unless there is some other better option still out there for them), negating the traffic reduction.
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2) for the train to even have an effect on traffic on I-91, it has to provide a much better service than is currently available--it has to be the most convenient option for any person who you expect to make the switch! this has been a
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