I hate when I have to make an exit and a bunch of traffic is entering the highway just before the exit. It seems illogical. Why not make it so that cars exit BEFORE new cars enter the highway.
2007-06-27 13:52:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Commuting
The design was fine as it was designed. Based on land constraints and traffic volumes at the time, most interchanges worked well for the 50+ years they've been in service. It's as the population and percentage of drivers grew that the highways became overwhelmed.
Another contributing factor is the road onto which the highway exits. If it can't handle the volume it's experiancing, this traffic will back up onto the highway, so no matter if the higway is well designed or not, it will be affected. The town where I lived in Ohio experienced a 200% growth over 5 years. There was no way for the town officials to predict the increase or react to it fast enough. Traffic has been a bear for years and it's slowly getting better, but roadbuilding is a slow process.
Next time your state tries to pass taxes to improve roadways, don't vote against it, or encourage your representtives to support it. The only way we're going to be able to cope with the increased traffic volume is to increase road capacity. That's going to take money.
2007-06-28 03:31:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a great question and honestly I have no idea . I don't buy the they weren't expecting that much traffic excuse . Whomever designed a road that connects one 3+lane road to another 3+lane road is expecting traffic. They just really screwed it up.
Those kind of screw ups are becoming an American disease .It seems like the boy geniuses that design and build stuff neither have to use it ,nor repair it. You know if they did it wouldn't be so hard to use or so difficult to repair.
Road signs are the same thing , if you are not a knowledgeble local then you are going to get lost.
One would figure that somewhere in the volume of paperwork needed to build a road, somebody would have inserted a requirment that road signs be comprehension tested by a group of people from another city.
I guess that would make too much sense.
2007-06-27 16:55:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
So that is our Highway system In Kansas and Missouri new traffic enters the highway in the fast lane? Each state another Nightmare. Texas no one even notice that that they even changed freeways or they stop at the end of the ramp to see if they can collect on a insurance settlement. Mom's talking on there cell phones with two underinflated tires with seven kids and equiptment 100+ pounds on the roof doing seventy five miles an hour on a 104 degree day pavement temp nearly boiling. Driving is unsafe!
2007-06-27 14:05:38 · answer #3 · answered by John Paul 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The highways were designed, mostly, in the 60's and 70's. Huge, unexpected, population explosion since. Not many new roads and highways due to bureaucracy and red tape. Most people have to drive to earn a living. You do the math. And I almost forgot, a lack of efficient public transits in most counties across the country.
2007-06-27 14:03:22 · answer #4 · answered by isisrocca82 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
when many roads were first designed they were not intended for soo many cars.
2007-06-27 13:58:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋