09-03-2016, 10:46 AM
I think the Hwy 85/8 proposal makes a ton of sense.
There's another spot where a similar idea might help: the off-ramp from Hwy 8 to eastbound King St E. Just prior to the ramp, King St goes from one to two lanes, and the ramp has little merge space with poor visibility. So the idea would be for King St to stay at one lane and the off-ramp to join it as the second lane.
(One argument against this would be that if drivers flying down the off-ramp don't have to merge, they'd go too fast on King St.)
There's another spot where a similar idea might help: the off-ramp from Hwy 8 to eastbound King St E. Just prior to the ramp, King St goes from one to two lanes, and the ramp has little merge space with poor visibility. So the idea would be for King St to stay at one lane and the off-ramp to join it as the second lane.
(One argument against this would be that if drivers flying down the off-ramp don't have to merge, they'd go too fast on King St.)