An apartment building, he said, did not generate car trips any more than a banana generated fruit flies. An apartment building sitting atop eight stories of garage, on a street without sidewalks, linked by a six-lane, fifty-miles-per-hour arterial to a commercial area that is 70 percent parking by surface area would attract car trips. But the car trips were not an inherent feature of the building any more than the fruit flies were of a banana. It was the context that determined the way people would travel.
