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re: Today's Advocate headline, "I-10 widening garners little enthusiasm"
Posted on 8/31/15 at 10:42 am to PhiTiger1764
Posted on 8/31/15 at 10:42 am to PhiTiger1764
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There are not enough lanes to adequately handle the capacity. That is a fact.
Regardless of how many lanes are added, the bridge is still what it is. All adding extra lanes would do is move the bottlenecks. Notice what happened after the construction project from Tinseltown to Essen. Traffic flows beautifully in that stretch but once it goes back to two lanes in each direction, bottlenecks begin. Bottlenecks went from that stretch to starting at Essen going toward Downtown and starting just after Seigen going toward Ascension. The bottlenecks are still there, they're just in different spots.
My point is that bottlenecks are going to happen no matter what. It's up to drivers as to how bad they get. If drivers would just drive efficiently, so many headaches would disappear.
This post was edited on 8/31/15 at 10:44 am
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Posted on 8/31/15 at 10:43 am to TDsngumbo
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Regardless of how many lanes are added, the bridge is still what it is. All adding extra lanes would do is move the bottlenecks.
The frick? Adding lanes where the bottleneck is gets rid of the bottleneck.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 10:44 am to TDsngumbo
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Regardless of how many lanes are added, the bridge is still what it is.
True, but the bridge has three lanes in each direction but the down ramp heading East only has one.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 10:49 am to TDsngumbo
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All adding extra lanes would do is move the bottlenecks.
Don't confuse moving a bottleneck with eliminating one. The bridge, heading EB is one of the biggest in the country. To your point though, the rework they did on this section with the Washington exit technically "added" a lane, but really just moved the bottleneck down a few hundred yards. We need a real solution. A new lane really needs to extend all the way to College dr, at least.
Posted on 8/31/15 at 11:01 am to TDsngumbo
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Regardless of how many lanes are added, the bridge is still what it is.
The bridge has 6 lanes. It is not the problem.
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All adding extra lanes would do is move the bottlenecks
Not all parts of the interstate handle the same amount of daily traffic. It actually varies by tens of thousands of vehicles per day from the bridge out to Ascension or Denham.
With all due respect, you don't understand what you are talking about.
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