re: America has outgrown the 2 lane interstate system

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Leave a day early or travel early in the morning.

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Amen brother. My wife bitches like hell when I make her get up at 6 AM on an LSU game day, and sleep in the car, but I’ll be damned if we are parked at the stadium in Baton Rouge in 4 1/2 hours. If you leave on Friday afternoon at rush-hour, it takes 6 hours.

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I know one thing, Interstate 65 through Alabama needs to be three lanes both ways from the AL/TN line all the way to Mobile. The traffic in the summer is horrendous.

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It's left lane riders... And people riding behind left laners instead of just passing on the right. I pretty much average 85 mph on 65 and oftentimes doing 100+ on stretches of it.

It's miserable to drive anywhere at anytime these days. Too many people on the road now

The drive to lake Charles is the only way traffic isn't bad with the 3 lanes on 1-10.

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The way to actually solve traffic is to make alternate routes and mass transit.

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Another way to solve a lot of congestion: Toll Roads.

Free roads get congested as anything. People don't drive toll roads nearly as much.

Toll Roads are also a voluntary road tax. Don't wanna pay the tax? Don't drive that particular road. Secondary benefit that way for the rest of the state/nation: no new tax on all.

Make new loops and such all be toll roads. If the time is more important than the money, take the toll road. If not, live free my friends.

Interstates are horrible. While it opened up much of the country to people in the 60's, it's crushed much of small town America and made road trips boring and repetitive. Always take the slow road if you can.

All of I-12 needs to be 3 lane. And Mobile needs another tunnel or a bridge.

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The Autobahn in Germany is two lanes almost exclusively. Yet it works amazingly because the lack of speed limit naturally lets cars separate themselves.

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There is more to it than no speed limit.

1.The drivers are better, even though there is no speed limit on the open stretches of the autobahn, where it slows down in populated areas the speed limits and other traffic rules are usually obeyed.

2. Eighteen wheelers are forced to use the right lane only unless passing, which is not frequent because their speed is strictly limited to around 55 or 60 MPH.

3. The autobahns are meticulously maintained, and repair work is scheduled to have the least impact on traffic.

4. Vehicle inspections are more rigorous, there is even a limit to how much rust a car can have, there is less junk being driven meaning less breakdowns, and accidents caused by equipment failure.

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But we pay too much in taxes. Dickbrain just passed a massive tax cut. Oh wait, maybe the highway fairy will pay for it, like the wall.

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But revenues have never been higher. It's almost like you don't understand taxes stifle economic activity.




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