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Really. Looks like you are insulting just to cover your lack of a counter arguement. Sure, it works ok at off peak times because it makes it harder for ducklings et al to block the road. But at peak times there so many of them out there it's trivial. A major arterial I am familiar with used to have 4 and 6 lane sections. It was widened so that all these 6 lane sections were joined up. It still jams up tight at the same places it did before. Making the backup wider and shorter in length really isn't a solution.
The point is to prevent congestion. Not make the parking lot wider.
Where do think that bumper-to-bumper traffic came from? It starts out as vehicles build up in the road system. Begin to become tightly packed. Wouldn't it then follow that elimination of the onset of this packing of vehicles be delayed? That's what the extra lane tries to do. Give faster traffic a way around the blockage. But that way around is easily blocked too. It isn't free flowing either. It's like taking a kinked garden hose and slightly unkinking it. Driving properly is like droping the hose on the ground and leting it lay straight.
And then traffic builds up behind them. People start making lane changes, there is jaming on the brakes, traffic waves are induced, more vehicles enter, they start building up in the system. The end result is crawling along bumper to bumper at 5mph. If traffic was as free flowing as possible at the onset then the onset of the bumper-to-bumper would be pushed back if not eliminated. Also it's duration would be shortened.
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You get three drivers side by side doing the 55mph speed limit when the normal speed of traffic is 70mph. What happens? traffic builds up behind them and packs tightly. Still moving at 55mph. Now let's say it's peak travel times. The road, unable to clear traffic at it's normal rate as more and more vehicles try to enter. But there's no space. Throw in the merge impared and jockeying for posisition, now the braking wave is set up. Now somewhere back in the blockage speed drops to 45mph, later 35mph, soon enough there are so many people on the road fighting for space it's 5mph. Do you think that the onset would have been at least delayed, if not eliminated if the road had been allowed to flow at 70mph in the first place? If the throughput, the capacity is at maximum from the start, fewer vehicles will build up in the system.
The extra lane increases the storage size of the system, helps give a way around blockages. But it doesn't address the blockage its self.
Not compared to not having a blockage. I am arguing to remove the blockage.
I'm not. I find extra lanes often don't solve the problem usually at best it displaces the problem to another segment of road.
Actual driver's training and stopping the LCD nonsense.
