Craft and StructureHardApplying a caution to a specific case
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
When a new road opens and traffic on it grows quickly, transport planner Kofi Mensah warns, the growth is often 'induced': trips that would not have been made without the road, rather than trips diverted from elsewhere.
Text 2
The new ring road carries 30,000 vehicles a day, which the council says proves how much congestion it has removed from the town centre.
Based on the texts, how would Mensah most likely respond to the council's claim?
- A. By asking how much of the ring road's traffic is new rather than diverted from the town centre.Correct
- B. By agreeing that all 30,000 vehicles came from the town centre.
- C. By arguing that the ring road should be closed.
- D. By denying that the ring road carries traffic.
Answer: A. By asking how much of the ring road's traffic is new rather than diverted from the town centre.
Mensah's warning: growth on a new road may be induced, not diverted.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By agreeing that all 30,000 vehicles came from the town centre.
- Mensah's caution argues against assuming that.
- C. By arguing that the ring road should be closed.
- Not proposed.
- D. By denying that the ring road carries traffic.
- The count is not disputed.
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