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  • caption: “state DOTs presenting their groundbreaking solutions to traffic”
  • image: stock photo of people in business attire holding up a poster together with the text “just one more lane bro”
  • Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, that would explain a lot about why state DOTs are often so garbage. Sounds like a good example of Goodhart’s law:

    When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

    In this case, trying to use VMT as a measure of success just means they’ll favor projects that needlessly sprawl, instead of more compact or transit-oriented options.