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One more lane, bro
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I swear bro, just one more, please
Worked every time so far, I swear!
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Just one more and it'll all be fixed, trust me bro
Double it and pass the problem to the next generation
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All of that, for a traffic jam. Imagine turning 4 lanes in a train track carrying 500 person every 5 min in both directions and one lane in a bike lane. It's still 20 lanes for car, but you suddenly have decent public transport which would be safer and faster than that gigantic traffic jam
Or just a decent bus system. You could replace 50 cars on that highway with a single bus.
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THAT'S MY AMERICA 🇺🇸 🦅🔥🔥🔥 ONE MORE LANE DOESN'T FIX IT MY A$$ LOOK AT THIS AND TELL ME IT ISN'T WORKING 🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🔥🔥🔥🦅🦅
Anything but a fucking train...
Coincidentally they form train-like structure, without all the benefits.
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I hate cars and highways so much.
I wish we had good mass transit like Europe.
Everyone always disparages the cost of public transport but how much does it cost to maintain these highways every year? A few dozen/hundred billion dollars across the country?
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Counting the service road is kind of cheating. In built up areas in Texas they're de facto city streets that happen to exactly mirror the freeway. They have intersections, lights, businesses, etc.
Yep. Texas does that because of a state law that says any landowner with property adjacent to a highway has a right to access that highway.
If I count the roads off the sides, on ramps and off ramps, etc, the highest I can get is 18 lanes. Is this the photo of where it’s 26 wide? I can’t seem to find it.
I can get to 22 in the foreground of the pic with some lanes underneath others with the flyover ramps.
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Fwiw, feeder lanes probably shouldn't be counted in Texas because they're basically glorified city streets. Businesses can have entrances and exits on frontage roads, so there's not really anything special about them except that they have a slightly higher speed limit (50~60mph vs 40~45mph) and they have immediate access to the highway.
The feeder there is also almost certainly 45. So not really any faster than normal stroads.
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And traffic STILL sucks in Houston
This is why traffic sucks. Super highways don't reduce traffic, they create it.
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I just came back from tokyo after doing the JR pass travel to view the entire country. I fucking HATE CAR TRAVEL. taking the Narita express to the airport was so painless. Got back to IAH bush Int'ctl and it was a complete clusterfuck trying to get an Uber. Not to mention it was quite literally twice the price the express line train was. And that was one of the more expensive limited expresses too.
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I know. They should add more lanes.
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We getting out of the traffic jam with this one 🇺🇸🦅🔥🇺🇸
And was we can all observe, it has solved traffic for Houston due to accommodating all the cars possible by upgrading with enough lanes perpetually.
It is expected to be complete once the lanes exceed N+1 or the population drops below N.
shit could have been 1 long passenger and 1/10th of a freight train
Am I the only one not seeing 26 landed here?
I think this is a picture before the most recent expansion. (They saw this picture and said "hmm not wide enough, too congested.")
In the normal parts:
- 2 express/toll/HOV/carpool lanes
- 5 regular highway lanes
- 3 feeder lanes (in Texas, the highways tend to have "feeders" or "service roads" or "frontage roads" that run parallel to highways so that people can exit and enter, turn onto intersecting roads, and access local businesses, and Houston calls them "feeders").
That's 10 in each direction. But at any given time there might be merge lanes between the express and the regular lanes, between the highway and the feeder, or between the feeder and a turn lane. So at the widest point, around the major freeway intersection with another huge toll highway, they bump it up to one more of each type of lane, for 13 lanes in each direction.
There's also a fair debate about whether the feeder lanes should count. After all, they have traffic lights and intersections to deal with. But on the other hand, driving on them is necessary to get on and off the highway lanes, so in a sense it's part of the same highway.
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