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Experts at Only Pro/Con Teach-in on I-80 widening

Thursday December 7th  at 7pm, Davis Community Church 413 4th street

Image001 1601(From press release) The first (and only) public discussion of the pros and cons of the widening of the I-80 freeway is set for this coming week. The discussion has been organized by the Davis Futures Forum with help from Cool Davis. The public will learn about the Draft Environment Impact Report (DEIR) just released.

The hybrid meeting will include a background by project advocates Yolo Transportation District staff, followed by a keynote from UC Davis Professor Susan Handy, the renowned Director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation.  This will be followed by a diverse response panel and a Q&A for those in person.

  • Autumn Bernstein YoloTD – history of project.
  • Nailah Pope-Harden, ClimatePlan, (equity issues, transit)
  • Stephen Wheeler, UC Davis Professor – DEIR issues; alternatives
  • Don Mooney, CEQA Attorney — writing effective DEIR comments.
  • Moderator: Daniel Sperling, formerly of California Air Resources Board

This is a hybrid event.  Sign up at Cool Davis for advance materials and a link to the YouTube live/recording site. Please note that the registration link is in the upper right corner.

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5 responses to “Experts at Only Pro/Con Teach-in on I-80 widening”

  1. South of Davis

    I wonder if the “experts” will be the people that say making the freeway wider will create more traffic (making people that work in Davis quit their jobs to get jobs in Sac) and making a freeway narrower will reduce traffic (making people that commute to Sac every day quit their jobs and get new jobs they can bike to in Davis)… P.S. Most of the “freeway widening experts” I have met in town have a lot in common with the “school closure experts” I have met. The people that work in the schools don’t want their friends laid off if we close a school and make the 1,000+ kids from Woodland, Dixon and West Sac go back to the schools near their homes and most (but not all) the people that don’t want I80 wider want to keep traffic bad since they know bad traffic is what keeps a lot of middle of the road people voting against new development.

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  2. Roberta L. Millstein

    You keep misrepresenting what induced demand is. I am tired of correcting you because it’s becoming obvious that you just want to lampoon the idea. I will refrain from inferring a motive from you for doing this, the way that you infer a motive from the traffic experts — University professors who have published peer reviewed research documenting induced demand.

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  3. South of Davis

    I know what “induced demand” is and I’m sure a few more people in Elk Grove drove to Sac when they made 99 wider but making 99 wider and “induced demand” was not the “primary cause” of the increased traffic on 99 (it was the population of Elk Grove going from just over 10K to close to 180K in the last 40 years). Don’t forget that it was “experts” (with “studies”) that went before Congress in the 90’s to tell everyone that tobacco is not addictive or cause cancer (and if you really want to have fun talk to the flat earth “experts” at the Farmers Market). I can find an “expert” to say pretty much anything and just like I’m sure that having a High School age daughter is the reason I have a few extra gray hairs but it is not the “primary cause” of my hair turning gray.

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  4. Roberta L. Millstein

    SOD writes, “I know what “induced demand” is and I’m sure a few more people in Elk Grove drove to Sac when they made 99 wider but making 99 wider and “induced demand” was not the “primary cause” of the increased traffic on 99 (it was the population of Elk Grove going from just over 10K to close to 180K in the last 40 years).”
    Thank you. I find that sort of comment much more useful, as it lets me know what your concern about induced demand really is. I do see where you are coming from. However, I’d put the issue this way: causes rarely operate in isolation. When you add lanes AND add additional people, you are setting up the “perfect storm” for induced demand because you have plenty of new cars to take advantage of the new lanes.
    Don’t forget that it was “experts” (with “studies”) that went before Congress in the 90’s to tell everyone that tobacco is not addictive or cause cancer…
    Actually, those were paid shills from the tobacco company, just as the oil companies paid people to sow doubt about climate change, even though the oil companies knew that the claims were legitimate (see book or movie, “Merchants of Doubt” for documentation that these were paid shills who argued things that they knew to be false).
    …(and if you really want to have fun talk to the flat earth “experts” at the Farmers Market). I can find an “expert” to say pretty much anything and just like I’m sure that having a High School age daughter is the reason I have a few extra gray hairs but it is not the “primary cause” of my hair turning gray.
    It is not helpful to say that there are no genuine experts and that everyone is the same as a flat earther. But do follow the money and ask for the documentation, which the studies of induced demand do provide in their peer reviewed work.

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  5. Roberta L. Millstein

    Readers might be interested in this recent blog post from Susan Handy, Director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation at UC Davis:
    https://its.ucdavis.edu/blog-post/getting-over-our-highway-habit/

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