Correction: Cobra Effect in Urban Planning: Infrastructure Failures (2)
Corrected by Emir Baycan · Full-Stack Developer, Mobile App Builder and Web Platform Founder with expertise in SEO, automation, SaaS, AI visibility, DevOps and scalable digital products
Emir Baycan found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- When Notes Fly
- Topic
- Concepts
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 28 July 2026
The exact change
The article told the cobra-bounty story as fact, implied road expansion never solves congestion and freeway removal has no tradeoffs, dated Minneapolis's zoning change to 2040, said every new unit lowers pressure for all residents, and cited a Mast 2019 500-meter rent reduction.
Qualified the cobra parable, the induced-demand and supply claims, and the Mast filtering research to what the evidence supports, leaving the already-accurate freeway-removal and Minneapolis-2040 material intact.
Suggested change
See before/after.
Why this is better
The cobra story is apocryphal and several claims were more absolute than the evidence supports. Corrections qualify them and keep the genuine research (induced demand; Mast's filtering studies) rather than adding new sources.
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