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Originally Posted by opendoor
Comparing it to a business is a terrible example anyway. Like, if a driving route takes an hour and transit takes 45 minutes, but then the driving route is upgraded so it only takes 35 minutes, does anyone seriously believe that some of that transit ridership wouldn't shift to driving? That's induced demand.
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See, I think part of the problem living wherever the hell you're living is that you actually think the typical commute takes an hour - to wherever your assumed place is, which I guess I'm thinking the DCD, which maybe perhaps you should rethink.
Oh wait, opendoor lives in Toronto or something, yeah dude, Calgary doesn't have normal commutes like that. I guess eventually all of Toronto will move to Calgary because everybody will save 300% on their commute time. Besides I thought everybody in Toronto WFH now seeing as your downtown is a shell of its former self.
Besides the fact that that argument doesn't even make sense. So people moved somewhere where the commute is 60 minutes, and then somehow the city builds infrastructure in that same area that improves commute times by 3X? lol. 2X? And * then * people move there? But isn't it all built out? And wouldn't everybody closer to the miracle DCD also benefit? What when they took out the lights on Crowchild do you think they only put one overpass by Stoney?
Next thing you'll tell me backtests work.
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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
When buying a house, do you consider your commute length?
Would you build a new house on a lot that was 60 minutes from work?
What if that lot was now 20 minutes from work?
Ok, so you buy the house, and there is now one more car on that route. You aren't alone in this logic.
Demand has been induced, the road is now packed, and your commute is 50 minutes 10 years later.
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Nah. In fact since the improvements on Crowchild my commute has remained basically the same. I'll let you look up when those improvements were implemented.
You vastly, vastly overestimate commute times, and you vastly, vastly overestimate how much these upgrades actually lessen commute time.
Like how would you even know these things. You don't live in a "far flung" community.