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ID: LSAT-LR-072
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Main Point
Difficulty level: Easy

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Everyone agrees that the ring road cut congestion in the town centre, and for the first four years it did. But a road that is quicker to drive attracts drivers who would otherwise have stayed at home or taken the bus, and by the eighth year the centre carried more traffic than before the road was built. The ring road did not fail. It succeeded, and the success is what undid it.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main point of the passage?

ABuilding the ring road was a mistake, since the traffic it was meant to draw out of the town centre had all found its way back there within eight years of the road opening.

BThe ring road's own success in easing traffic through the town centre is what drew back the drivers who filled it again.

CMore people took the bus into the town centre in the years before the ring road was built than took it once the road had drawn those journeys into cars.

DDrivers will in the end fill whatever new road capacity is provided for them, however much of it is built.

EThe ring road cut congestion in the town centre for four years, a benefit that everyone agrees the road delivered.

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