Commuting trends: transit vs driving vs ...

[ijmorlan]

Minor nitpick: cars turning left from King SB onto EB Erb didn’t block traffic. You could still go straight though in the right lane.

In theory, yes. In practice vehicles turning left, combined with the exact layout of the intersection, often prevented straight-through traffic from proceeding. This was especially true for buses which had trouble getting around the left-turning vehicles. Whenever I was turning left there I always made a point of putting myself extremely far to the left, often slightly over the yellow line (which didn’t line up with the yellow line on the other side of Erb). And of course once a bus or truck is stuck, throughput goes to 0.