07-11-2022, 10:02 AM
(07-11-2022, 09:10 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(07-11-2022, 07:54 AM)jamincan Wrote: River Road, Frederick, Benton
Haha! Shocking that I of all people forgot about Frederick and Benton.
Also, Homer-Watson north of Ottawa.
And I mean, this list is only the clearly overbuilt roads...like roads which would see LOS A or B when reduced to 2 lanes. This is to say nothing of slightly more radical opinions like, not using only LOS to measure congestion, or *gasp* arguing that completely free flowing traffic 100% of the time achieved by having more road capacity than the free market will consume even when priced at 0 dollars should not necessarily be a societal goal.
This is the bit I really don’t get. I understand someone thinking that cars are the best and we need to cater to people who want to drive them; but I don’t understand a so-called “engineer” who deliberately overbuilds things at massive expense, thus incurring further increased maintenance expenses. I mean the first person is wrong, but the second person just makes no sense at all.