Wendell Cox: Mass transit does not reduce congestion

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Transit advocates must be elated. Voters in places as diverse as Seattle, Kansas City and Salt Lake City approved new taxes for transit improvements.

No doubt the electoral victories depended on expectations that transit improvements would reduce traffic congestion, but nothing could be further from the truth.

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