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Old Posted Jul 16, 2012, 8:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Waye Mason View Post
In fact one of the questions to Andy Filmore was about how all that traffic from the already proposed Vernon/Quinpool building would ruin Pepperell ....
I get the sense that a significant number of people seriously overestimate the amount of traffic created by urban infill buildings. The numbers in traffic studies for midrise buildings are very small compared to traffic counts along arterial roads.

Another factor is that if you don't put the buildings in urban neighbourhoods, they go out in the suburbs. In the suburban buildings a larger percentage of people drive and many of them drive and park in the urban area as well. It's really easy to "undersell" urban infill by failing to point out the bigger picture.
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