Okay so have you ever heard of Braess’s paradox, basically it is the paradox that the more lanes a road has, the more congested it is. I mean I guess you probably do know that because it’s common knowledge to everyone that isn’t a fucking traffic engineer because of how induced demand works. But did you know that it has been found to work in reverse? Following the removal of the Alaskan way viaduct in Seattle, the city found that traffic on the street went down without having any negative effects on ove…
Since most traffic jams are caused by people changing lanes and making people behind them break, which then cascades, and then people in the backing up lane switch to one of the others, starting a breaking cascade in -that- lane, and...
Well, the few lanes, the less lane changing there'd be, therefore less breaking-cascades and smoother traffic overall.
...and I'm in gay bar, now. Huh.
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