Projections include traffic improvements that the plan won't pay for. Projections count improvements from nodal development, yet there's no funding for that either. TransPlan does not really support Nodal Development Despite lip service to the concept, TransPlan is not serious about nodal development. True nodal development is one of the best ways available to build compact livable cities without suburban sprawl. Fake nodal development is just a loophole for subsidies to big developers.
Transportation infrastructure creates development, because of simple economics.
The current TransPlan is dedicated to expanding peripheral highways and adding new high-volume intersections right at the edge of the urban growth boundary. Building these overpasses will create a huge force for expanding development broadly north and west into farms and open land. Instead of building for sprawl, the community consensus for compact growth needs to be the basis of a more open and serious approach to transportation planning. Simply to maintain our quality of life as more and more people come into this area, the quality of planning and development will need to steadily increase. We just can't afford to keep doing transportation planning in a vacuum.