@[email protected] to [email protected] • 9 months agoOntario can end gridlock. But not with more highwayswww.nationalobserver.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up198
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minus-squarebluGilllinkfedilink1•9 months agoBy the time anyone realizes a lane is needed you need 5 times as many lanes as you have to allow safe seperation between cars.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•9 months agoIf at any point you need 5 additonal lanes, you don’t need lanes, you need different infrastructure
minus-squarebluGilllinkfedilink1•9 months agoIt isn’t 5 more lanes it is 5 times. So a exurb two lane freeway starting to become crowded needs to expand to ten lanes just for safety.
By the time anyone realizes a lane is needed you need 5 times as many lanes as you have to allow safe seperation between cars.
If at any point you need 5 additonal lanes, you don’t need lanes, you need different infrastructure
It isn’t 5 more lanes it is 5 times. So a exurb two lane freeway starting to become crowded needs to expand to ten lanes just for safety.