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Originally Posted by yotajoe
Ah yes lets just reduce all the highways to two lane roads instead. Congestion will be the same and they're cheaper to maintain.
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Or go to a single lane and have people pull over onto the shoulder to let oncoming traffic pass?
There are significant safety benefits to going from 2 lanes to 4 on heavily used roads, beyond 4 lanes the only benefit is a small increase in capacity, and induced demand means that increased capacity will quickly be eaten up.
For this reason, I have been opposed to the current widening of the 417 from 6 to 8 lanes. It could be more easily justified if they were designed as HOV or bus lanes, but the plan is to make them open to all
motor vehicles.