[lightrail123]

Building freeways induces demand for single occupancy vehicles. Building transit induces demand for transit.

If Seattle never build another freeway, but keeps building trains and bus rapid transit we'll come out WAY ahead.

[01100011]

That's how you make a region suck for decades while your transit dream matures.

Building freeways gives you room for HOV lanes and busses, and even rail if you plan it right. Not building freeways is a demonstrably failed policy in the Sea-Tac region.

It's like how SF suspended the traditional criminal justice system before they had a working replacement. Sure, they'll get it right someday but in the meantime you just have to put up with a few decades of crime. But hey, one day it will be perfect and ideologically pure.