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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
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As I was reading through these, each one I had either already observed on my own or intuitively made sense to me...
until I got to number 9.
So, I tried to find the study itself:
http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/pub...tecipa-370.pdf
It's rather difficult to digest, but a lot of what they base their conclusions on seems sketchy (i.e. calculating availability of mass transit not with mass transit data... but on the 1972 presidential voting record and using 1898 train maps in determining metropolitan areas) The direct 1-1 correlation mentioned in the article only seems to appear in their estimates, empirical data has a much more broad correlation, and even that seems suspicious to me.
This paper also directly contradicts Item 8 on the list, stating "that public transit does not affect traffic levels."