• Prediction may not be what matters anyway. If we abandoned hope of predicting the future, we could still describe a compelling outcome of transportation investment, one that motivates many people who will never care about a ridership prediction or economic impact analysis. We could also predict it in the sense that we can predict the continued value of pi. That idea is freedom, as transportation expands or reduces it.

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自信地预测，计划自由

•无论如何，预测可能并不重要。如果我们放弃了预测未来的希望，我们仍然可以描述运输投资的一项令人信服的成果，这一成果激励了许多永远不会在意乘车率预测或经济影响分析的人。我们也可以从可以预测pi的连续值的意义上进行预测。当运输扩大或减少时，这种想法就是自由。