Packet 13: Bonus 10
Answer the following about attempts to address highway traffic causing more traffic, for 10 points each:
[10m] Chicago commissioner Dan Ryan names a stretch of this highway whose expansion to fourteen lanes backfired and caused more traffic. This longest U.S highway ends near Logan Airport in Boston.
ANSWER: Interstate 90 [or the I-90]
[10e] Many Traffic Scientists believe that induced demand caused by the expansion of this city’s Katy Freeway to 26 lanes may have made it a bad investment. I-10 serves this most populous city in Texas.
ANSWER: Houston, Texas
[10h] Although Denver's T-REX expansion to I-25 caused more congestion, traffic scientists believe the impact was mitigated by its parallel construction of this type of transit system. San Francisco’s Muni Metro provides this type of transit.
ANSWER: light rail [accept light rail transit or LRT; prompt on trains or trams or streetcars; reject "subway"]
<Geography, Vikram Narasimhan> | VAULT II Packet 13 (Finals 1)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 15.71 | 71% | 57% | 29% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheffield A | Manchester A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | H |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |