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by AnthonyMouse 818 days ago
If you make something more efficient, people often use more of it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

If things that had been a 10 minute drive become a 5 minute drive, now they're worth it when before they weren't. You go to the shop instead of waiting 2 days for Amazon. You go to the shop you like more instead of the one you like less even though the lesser one is closer, because now the difference isn't as big.

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It's not only a function of trip length.

If you make the drive shorter but make parking harder,

and you make the walk/bike shorter but walking/biking pleasant,

people will take their cars less.