09-05-2016, 08:33 AM
I suspect that this design of two lanes near the on-ramp and traffic lights served a much greater purpose when we had manufacturing regularly coming in and out of downtown; in fact we can see the same problem at work with the single lane ramps going NB->WB or EB->SB - the trucks have to slow way down and can't accelerate through the turns well enough, and while they are not coming to a full stop, cars can't get around and traffic backs up quickly.
I suspect engineers/planners considered this problem when they were dealing with the obvious hard stop of the traffic lights so close to the expressway and decided on two lanes. With the ramps being free flow (and traffic being what it was in the 60s relative to today) it may not have been viewed with the same concern.
I suspect engineers/planners considered this problem when they were dealing with the obvious hard stop of the traffic lights so close to the expressway and decided on two lanes. With the ramps being free flow (and traffic being what it was in the 60s relative to today) it may not have been viewed with the same concern.