Jay scoffed - a highway was Culberson's pride and joy? And then he wondered: Were cars moving faster than they had been before the highway was expanded? He looked at Houston's travel time data, comparing how long it took to drive on I-10 during rush hour from downtown Houston to the far-flung suburb of Katy. In 2005, the thirty-mile trip took fifty-two minutes at rush hour. In 2014- only six years after the state had spent $2.8 billion to widen the highway- during rush hour that same trip took seventy minutes, an increase of 33 percent. The highway was wider, but traffic was worse. In May 2015, Jay summarized his findings in a four-hundred-word article that he posted on the website for Houston Tomorrow. The story spread across the state, and then the country, and then the world Soon, the Katy Freeway expansion had become the most famous example of the phenomenon known as induced demand: If you make it easier for people to drive, more people will drive

— City Limits by Megan Kimble (Page 142)