07-27-2019, 11:04 AM
It is definitely worse in the leftmost lane, as someone who drives this daily and has done both sides. Worse than being in the line when someone cuts in, forcing you to break from 30 to 50 down to near zero, is being in the left lane, and someone thinks a gap is forming and their last stop, and you go from 70-90 down to zero as they stop to nose in. The left shoulder has saved people ahead of me many times.
I suspect that the 85 to 8 flyover and the narrowness of 8, combined with the elevation of 85 and of 8, make it very tricky to consider doing a flyover.
Getting rid of the rockway-gifted lane of king, where you have no turns, and are about to be speeding up (hence fewer lanes needed for same vehicle count), makes perfect sense, with the only caveat of a truck at the stoplight slowly speeding up. We would have to wait, and maybe we should, and maybe that truck could have a disappearing right lane instead of the 7 on ramp being the disappearing one, but we definitely don't need two continuing lanes.
I suspect that the 85 to 8 flyover and the narrowness of 8, combined with the elevation of 85 and of 8, make it very tricky to consider doing a flyover.
Getting rid of the rockway-gifted lane of king, where you have no turns, and are about to be speeding up (hence fewer lanes needed for same vehicle count), makes perfect sense, with the only caveat of a truck at the stoplight slowly speeding up. We would have to wait, and maybe we should, and maybe that truck could have a disappearing right lane instead of the 7 on ramp being the disappearing one, but we definitely don't need two continuing lanes.