Setting aside that widening roads is a bad idea, it's really not feasible. To really "solve" the congestion problem on Halsted you'd have to widen all the way from Van Buren up to Fullerton and tear down countless buildings. And the second you complete that project, it just fills up with traffic again as the road fills with Lincoln Parkers and Lakeview folks switching away from transit and driving to work.
The Halsted/Chicago rebuild could make the intersection work a bit more efficiently at moving cars thru. If they add bus priority you lose those efficiency gains for cars, but the total throughput gets larger when you include the bus riders both current and potential. Similar situation at Halsted/Division which will also be rebuilt. And I haven't even talked about bikes yet, Halsted is also the only direct bike corridor between the North Side and West Loop. There's simply not enough space to let everyone drive.
Really the casino project should have included a set of onramps to the Ohio Feeder, it would pull a *ton* of cars off of all the surface streets in the area.
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