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A city aims to encourage bicycling (and thus improve public health) by converting a lane on a crowded thoroughfare into a bicycle lane. The new design will slow traffic initially, but because the lane is safer the city hopes that more car drivers will switch to bicycling. In the longer term, the city envisions that the streets traffic will flow more smoothly when a portion of car traffic is reduced.
In assessing the plan's chances of accomplishing its goal, it would be most helpful to know which of the following?
A. Whether car drivers are likely to respond by choosing alternate routes
B. Whether the details of the reorganized street will be designed by the city's own engineers
C. Whether some segments of the street will have fewer lanes for cars than others
D. Whether reprogramming traffic lights will sufficiently improve the street's traffic pattern to minimize the new design's impact on travel times
E. Whether an alternative strategy might enable the city to improve traffic flow while maintaining a constant or decreasing number of cyclists
In assessing the plan's chances of accomplishing its goal, it would be most helpful to know which of the following?
A. Whether car drivers are likely to respond by choosing alternate routes
B. Whether the details of the reorganized street will be designed by the city's own engineers
C. Whether some segments of the street will have fewer lanes for cars than others
D. Whether reprogramming traffic lights will sufficiently improve the street's traffic pattern to minimize the new design's impact on travel times
E. Whether an alternative strategy might enable the city to improve traffic flow while maintaining a constant or decreasing number of cyclists
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
In answering this question, we need to remember that we're looking for information that would be most important for evaluating the plan's potential for success rather than its actual success or failure. So, let's go through the answer choices and decide whether asking these questions would be useful to our evaluation.
Choice (A) would be good to know: what if drivers simply find a different route rather than switching to bicycling? That's a major part of the city's plan.
Both (B) and (D) require more information about how much particular engineers or new traffic-light programming will affect traffic management on the new street, so those details alone don't help us.
Choice (C) talks about segments of the street while the plan addresses the street as a whole, so that's not helpful.
Choice (E) is irrelevant since the city's goal is to increase the number of bicyclists.
The correct answer is Choice (A).
In answering this question, we need to remember that we're looking for information that would be most important for evaluating the plan's potential for success rather than its actual success or failure. So, let's go through the answer choices and decide whether asking these questions would be useful to our evaluation.
Choice (A) would be good to know: what if drivers simply find a different route rather than switching to bicycling? That's a major part of the city's plan.
Both (B) and (D) require more information about how much particular engineers or new traffic-light programming will affect traffic management on the new street, so those details alone don't help us.
Choice (C) talks about segments of the street while the plan addresses the street as a whole, so that's not helpful.
Choice (E) is irrelevant since the city's goal is to increase the number of bicyclists.
The correct answer is Choice (A).
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