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Originally Posted by logan5
The viaducts create congestion.
The viaducts quickly funnel cars to Prior or Main street, and create high volumes of traffic along those streets. A new traffic light controlled Pacific would certainly have higher volumes than than the viaducts, but traffic would be metered more slowly onto Prior and Main, creating lower traffic volumes along those streets, so you are just displacing traffic volumes to a different area.
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The ramps at Main are original to the Viaduct design. The problem with Prior is that where there should be several more kilometers of viaduct and ramps the route abruptly ends, but we know what happened there, so instead what amounts to the main Downtown East-West throughway is dumped into low capacity streets over the length of two city blocks with only one major set of ramps.
That congestion is entirely the fault of the original redevelopment objection. It is not the fault of the viaduct itself being poorly designed or shortcomings brought on due to age.
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