What would you call me if I said we shouldn’t build homeless shelters because homeless people might use them, and also the buildings might encourage even more people to become homeless?

Dim, heartless, and much worse Internet-ready adjectives, probably.

But there’s a Kelowna group that’s using precisely this kind of addled reasoning to rail against the city’s long-held plan to extend Clement Avenue from Spall Road to Highway 33.

It would disrupt the cherished Okanagan Rail Trail, they say. It would result in a loss of green space, they say.

Most foolishly, they say, people might actually drive on the new road. Horrors!

“Building new roads often just attracts more cars (called induced demand) so congestion usually comes back - sometimes worse,” the group, Save the Rail Trail Greenspace

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