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California’s S.B. 375
mandates that cities increase the population densities of targeted
neighborhoods because everyone knows that people drive less in higher
densities and transit-oriented developments relieve congestion. One
problem, however, is that transportation models reveal that increased
densities actually increase congestion, as measured by “level of
service,” which measures traffic as a percent of a roadway’s capacity
and which in turn can be used to estimate the hours of delay people
suffer.
The California legislature has come up with a solution: S.B. 743,
which exempts cities from having to calculate and disclose levels of
service in their environmental impact reports for densification
projects.
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All of this is a predictable outcome of attempts to improve peoples’
lives through planning. Planners can’t deal with complexity, so they
oversimplify. Planners can’t deal with letting people make their own
decisions, so they try to constrict those decisions. Planners can’t
imagine that anyone wants to live any way but the way planners think
they should live, so they ignore the 80 to 90 percent who drive and want
to live in single-family homes as they impose their lifestyle
ideologies on as many people as possible.
Source: Randal O'Toole,"California Thinks Your Time Is Worthless," Cato at Liberty (cato.org/blog), January 2, 2014
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