General Road and Highway Discussion

[Markster]

So if everyone split equally here, the queue would be half as long, move half as fast, and the same number of people would make it through before the light changed on them.

The point is that the merge happens in a place where traffic is moving faster than "from a stop", and that's how it has more capacity. I disagree that it would necessarily be "half as fast", but do not currently have the time to build a simulation engine to show what I mean!