General Road and Highway Discussion

[ijmorlan]

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.

So I just took a closer look at the southbound traffic, and finally realized that the second lane comes from Charles St. combining into King. In principle that could provide enough traffic that 2 southbound lanes are actually needed. I think your suggestion of having the second lane merge in before the ramp from the 7 merges is probably good. Alternately, given that in the northbound direction the second lane simply disappears, rather than splitting off onto Charles St., it might still be OK to have the lane from Charles St. either become the right turn lane at Dixon St., or just have Charles St. meet King, with a right turn at the existing intersection with Jackson Ave. The current slip lane doesn’t have to stay that way.