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- caption: "state DOTs presenting their groundbreaking solutions to traffic"
- image: stock photo of people in business attire holding up a poster together with the text "just one more lane bro"
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2023
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My state’s DOT measures success by Vehicle Miles Traveled. The more driving people do, the better the DOT is doing. Sprawl? Line goes up! One more lane? Line goes up!
Honestly, that would explain a lot about why state DOTs are often so garbage. Sounds like a good example of Goodhart's law:
In this case, trying to use VMT as a measure of success just means they'll favor projects that needlessly sprawl, instead of more compact or transit-oriented options.