re: It's not just you: The Katy Freeway is scientifically awful

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People are following the widened roads, not the other way around.

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this is the vernacular of a municipal employee who wants less cars on the road, for no other reason than forcing more people to use ghetto public transit

Just one more lane bro.

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That’s a bit dramatic.

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Whaaaaat? Journalists jumping to conclusions and sensationalizing in order to sound smart or get clicks?

You're right. That's where i stop taking reports and reporters seriously.

225 and 45 is worse than I-10

At least it is scenic.

I have driven it several times visiting family in e hill country, and while people drive like nimrods on it, it was never really that bad. now from Houston to BR to me is worse - but in fairness, I do not have to drive it very often.

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Progs hate interstates and this is an article by the Comical who is VERY anti-NHHIP. Just stop reading that bath rag.

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Yep as soon as they mentioned "Democrat controlled" senate you knew it was progressive propaganda.

Well to be fair their solutions presented in the video kind of gave it away before they mentioned "Democrat controlled".

Still not as bad as hwy 290 pre-2018

Katy Freeway is wide open wayyyyy more than 610 on Western side. Not even close. Majority of the time I'm on I-10 in Houston, I don't really have to slow down below 50. On 610, I've never once been able to maintain a speed over 25.

All of these induced demand morons seem to think cars just appear out of the aether to fill those lanes, but they were all driven from somewhere.

When you add lanes to an efficient system like a controlled access highway, motorists move there from the less efficient surface streets. Thus, resulting in significantly less congestion on surface streets.

Additional lanes do not allow the cars on a freeway to move faster. They allow MORE cars to be moved in the same timeframe. If rush hour traffic creeps along at 20 mph for 5 miles. It will move 50% more cars at 6 lanes than it did at 4.

Think of it this way: you have two hoses each with the same velocity of water. A wider hose will dispense more water than a narrowed hose so long as the velocity remains constant. Now, typically, water pressure deals with fluid equations, meaning temperature, volume, and pressure are linked, so it’s difficult to maintain pressure with increasing volume without changing temperature, but you get what I mean.

Plus, a system can only flow as quickly as it can through its narrowest point. 22 lanes don’t matter if all of that traffic has to condense down to 4. Unless there’s 80% fewer cars on that 4 lane stretch compared to the wider stretch, you’ve still got a bottleneck.

Induced demand is just social Marxist bullshyt peddled by con artists who want to embezzle transportation money that would otherwise be spent on highway construction.