EIKEN Grade 1

Practice session

Read the passage and answer the question. For decades, urban planners assumed that widening roads would ease traffic congestion. Yet experience has repeatedly shown the opposite. When a road is enlarged, the additional capacity attracts drivers who had previously chosen other routes or avoided travel altogether. Within a few years, traffic returns to its former levels, and the congestion that planners sought to eliminate reappears. This phenomenon, known as 'induced demand,' has led many cities to abandon road-widening projects in favor of improving public transit. What point does the passage make about widening roads?

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