Traffic Report

Some more thoughts after my library talk on traffic and development

The other week I gave a talk at a public library in Woodbridge, Virginia, a mostly suburban community about 40 minutes from Washington, D.C. I outlined what I would be talking about here, and I stuck to this pretty closely.

This is really the core of my argument:

“People cause traffic” is almost like saying “Cooking causes the fire alarm to go off.” Only …