re: How would closing the washington exit help traffic?

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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

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This. Is just going to "kick the can", so to speak. The biggest part of the bottleneck is the amount of freight vehicles mixed in with cars/trucks. For every 18 wheeler you see, that takes the space of at least 3 to 4 cars. And then add that they are coming around that curve slow as molasses. I-10 needs to be 3 lanes and there needs to be a bypass route (loop) for all the trucks passing through.