re: Why don't long haul trucks have their own lane?

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It works better that way.

But more of them play by the rules of the road when driving (on average) than we do here so you can drive whatever speed there and we can't trust our morans to do so here.

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I miss driving in Germany. Almost four years of amazing traffic flow.

Then I came back to the shite show that is american drivers.

I've driven in Germany, Spain, Scotland, Australia, Jordan, Israel, and Kuwait...and US drivers are the absolute worst by a HUGE margin.

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’s a sign for roads in Europe where they drive on the opposite sides.

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doesn't 95% of Europe drive on the right?

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IMO, I-10 should be a minimum of 6 lanes wide (8 or 10 in Baton Rouge and NOLA), with trucks limited to the right two lanes of traffic only.

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Hasn't it been shown repeatedly that adding Lanes has a zero or negative effect on traffic due to induced demand

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slower traffic does actually keep right

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Main thing they have going. They dont just hang out in the left lanes because they want the extra comfort, they keep an eye on the rear view, and dont have meltdowns when someone flashes their lights behind you

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you mean like the basin bridge where they always stay in that lane ?

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They are supposed to. That may be one of those stretches that remains 4 lanes wide for a long time. We'd get a lot of accidents involving big rigs that would end up closing the highway for hours and hours.

When LSP enforces speed limits and lane restrictions on that stretch, they have fewer accidents. They eventually get complacent and stop enforcing both until we get another catastrophic accident.

I also think that in Baton Rouge, clear digital signage should be used to instruct truck traffic to get off I-10 E and take the old bridge around when traffic is tied up at rush hour. We can't really do that properly until Airline Highway is widened though.

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Hasn't it been shown repeatedly that adding Lanes has a zero or negative effect on traffic due to induced demand

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Those studies always recommend widening only when capacity enhancements are needed. It doesn't always reduce traffic time, but it does move more traffic for any given time frame. To the individual driver, it doesn't make a huge amount of difference. System-wide, it makes a tremendous difference.

That's an important feature in Louisiana, where alternative routes to I-10 and I-12 are limited and freight traffic takes those routes by default.

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I'd just settle for the morons around here learning what a zipper merge is.

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This. That would be amazing if people knew how to handle that.

I’ve always thought large metro areas should have windows of time when 18 wheelers can’t come through.

Rush hours

One reason is difference in speed among various trucks. If I’m hauling an empty or only have a bare chassis, I can boatrace any truck with a full load of 70-80,000 pounds going uphill. I’m not gonna sit behind him doing 25 mph when I can pass him at 65 mph.

Biggest problem is truck companies not paying drivers enough. The dregs of society take the job. There’s a world of difference between drivers and professionals. It sucks we all get lumped in with the tards, lard asses and general troglodytes. Hard to blame passenger car drivers bitching, though, because I see truckers doing dumb shite all the time, too.

Yeah...but trucks are usually the cause of the biggest traffic issues during those times.

In Nashville, it’s pretty much a guarantee that a big rig will overturn somewhere in/around town between 3 & 4 every Friday.