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.

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How would closing the washington exit help traffic?

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A) No one will be trying to cut from 110S over to the Washington St. exit.
B) More room for that right lane of 10E to merge to the left.


It's not going to help a shite-ton, but it would still be an improvement.

If people would realize they can go faster than 40mph through there it would help.

I don't think they are closing it. Just offering an alternative they hope will get used. It's ridiculous and won't help much at all. 110 should be 1 lane and 10 should get the 2. 110 gets 50,000 cars a day at that point. 10 gets 100,000 and that's double since 1997. Doesn't take a genius to know what needs to be done here. Also 110 travelers will have plenty of distance to merge and it's relatively straight and with no incline to deal with that slows the trucks. The bridge has an incline and travelers will pass slow vehicles in a choice of 2 other lanes both of which must be merged from eventually. There is also a curve to deal with and the trucks will continue to constipate the ramp causing major slow downs and many times accidents which only make matters worse. So a lane needs to be switched from 110 to 10 until a permanent fix can be implemented.