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Posted by ElectricTraction on Fri Sep 4 20:09:28 2015, in response to Re: Someone remind me, what is the point of light rail again?, posted by NIMBYkiller on Fri Sep 4 19:51:20 2015. Adding highway capacity just makes more traffic and more congestion. In NYC, it's self limiting. Only so much traffic can be stuck in traffic. Make bus lanes and roads around it all, and let the traffic be stuck. There's also nowhere to physically put more highway capacity, so what's there is there, and that's that. The only big need that it doesn't address is traffic through NYC, since NYC is a major choke point, but there's not much you can do about that either. Unfortunately, the trans-Manhattan and Cross-Bronx are, combined, the single largest bottleneck in any major highway system in the country.What does need to be fixed in the greater metro area are the absolutely insane parkways like the Taconic. That thing needs to be fully grade separated from all the other roads like every other normal highway. Those roads are completely nuts, and are from a bygone era. In the process, I would fully grade separate the Harlem Line. |
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