More roads don’t cause more cars

I had to read this twice to believe it: The caption under a photo contained this sentence: “Urban planners and transportation experts … say that more roads lead only to more cars using them.” Really?

So more roads cause more cars? Isn’t that lopsided logic, as in, say, “flies cause garbage”?

Or, to put it in the contrapositive, if we had no more roads, we would have no more cars.

The statements are identical to a student of logic, but neither is logical.

How about this simple summary: Dallas is growing in population, people use cars, therefore there will be more cars in Dallas. I believe we need to plan for that.

Ben Harrison, North Dallas

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