Don't Like Reality? Ignore it!
Sustainable transportation geek-overlord Todd Litman points me to this bit of gobbledygook from a transportation analysis released by British Columbia's Fraser Institute.
A particularly thorny area of evaluation is the impact of transportation investment on induced travel and development...While many researchers believe that these [induced travel] impacts exist, it is extremely difficult to demonstrate their presence even for aggregate investments and certainly for a specific project. For this first round, we take the conservative position that these impacts are not sufficiently quantifiable for measurement at the provincial level. [Emphasis added.]
What they're saying here is simple: induced travel is an inconvenient fact...so let's pretend it doesn't exist!
