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Originally Posted by canali
so i was right 3-5 min to do it...and some morons on the road can't handle such a huge ''time delay''.
lmao
i doubt, marco911, that you'll very often find anyone driving 10kph less than posted, let's be frank fsure you get it on occasion..perhaps they're older or are new)...big deal...be patient... guess on such a rare occasion that that drug deal will be delayed a few moments ..most people do go with the flow of traffic and are above the speed limit vs the other way around.
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No, you were wrong. 70,000 vehicles use LGB a day. Let's say that would be 10,000 vehicles/day during off-peak hours. Add an extra 4 mins to their commute and that's 40,000 mins lost / day * 365 days = 14,600,000 mins lost / year. That is the same as 27 life-years lost for every year of sub-optimal traffic flow. 270 life-years lost after a 10 year period. This decision is going to cost society more in wasted time than potential lives saved. North Shore residents are among the most educated and wealthiest in the country. We do not like when things work sub-optimally.
The optimized flow of traffic depends on faster vehicles being able to get around slower vehicles. Hogging the fast lane. Suboptimal. Driving next to another car on a 2 lane road. Suboptimal. Closing the middle lane of a perfectly safe bridge. Suboptimal.