How would closing the washington exit help traffic?

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Why does a shitty interstate spur to north BR get 2 lanes and a major cross country interstate only get 1?

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Because all the government buildings are off of 110

We've covered this 1000 times.

Simply closing it does nothing. You have to use the same footprint to add an extra elevated lane. It gives traffic another 1/3 mile to merge before the lakes.

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Only way to help is make 110 go down to 1 lane so 10 east could merge with 2 lanes.

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Traffic in the afternoons is already fricked at 10/110, and you'd make it infinitely worse with this idea.

It keeps people from trying to get off at Washington comeing from 110 going across 4 lanes of traffic. They will literally stop on the Interstate to get over. Inconsiderate drivers causing much of the havoc.

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It keeps people from trying to get off at Washington comeing from 110 going across 4 lanes of traffic. They will literally stop on the Interstate to get over. Inconsiderate drivers causing much of the havoc.

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They can be a PITA, but I don't think that situation causes much traffic compared to I-10 merging down to one lane.

Not at all. What could fix that cluster stretch of a road?

another study so i can retire

It would still bottleneck. Only difference is it would just move it further east about 100 yards. There needs to be another lane all of the way to College

i think the plan is to actually move the washington st exit itself to the left side. they probably have traffic models that show most of the traffic exiting washington st is coming from 110 and not 10. i speculated before that moving the exit might be phase 1, then that'd open the door to extending the elevated outer lane through to (at least) the next exit, like my business partner upgrayedd alluded to. if we take this discussion any further, i'll need to write up a manhour estimate.