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Originally Posted by steveosnyder
Ya, but do you ever hear of people complaining about an accident on any of those streets? (usually not, because it's so easy to just move one street over).
In networking (computer or traffic) you never really want a bottleneck, but we've moved to a system where we intentionally build bottlenecks. It's a very stupid method if you ask me.
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Yes, construction and accidents. I went to Miles Mac and Kimberly was a parking lot, literally and figuratively, during both rush hours. A residential street that is overused as an arterial connection to Henderson or Gateway/Panet, and in some ways overdeveloped for what it can handle. If you snuck down Roch or Watt to Munroe, same thing. There is still not a lot of capacity, when one of them is backed up, the whole neighbourhood is hooped, basically all of the north-south streets other than Roch and Watt have dead ends between the "3 lane" residential streets masquerading as arterial roads.
How many times a year is a road like Bishop Grandin or CPT completely blocked by an accident? Even if it was, then you use the residential streets to detour. Much rather have that than fully rely on the residential streets to move traffic which arterial roads would handle anywhere else.