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That's half the reason why Herkimer is one way.

The other, highly important but top secret reason is that Charlton and Herkimer together with a bock of Queen serve as a giant 13-block-long queue for three 'mountain accesses'.

The velvet ropes are invisible but this concoction, including the deadly slip lanes and island at Queen and Herkimer, allows both halves of the traffic light cycle to feed a steady stream of cars onto the ramps.

When you look at it that way, you can see how it's worth sacrificing your silly little neighbourhood to this higher need, riiiight?