[esoterica]

> try this pipe dream in any large city

Ummm, you do realize that in most large cities around the world (including NYC, although excluding many US cities), most people do not use cars as their main mode of transportation right? It's not some crazy utopian hypothetical, it's literally how most dense cities already work.

> It's impossible because total traffic cannot increase due to new roads since there aren't infinite people or cars to begin with.

You don't need an "infinite" number of people or cars for induced demand to apply, you just need the number of people/cars to be >>> the road/parking capacity (which is true for any dense city).

[lazyjones]

> It's not some crazy utopian hypothetical, it's literally how most dense cities already work.

In which large city is private car ownership prohibited?