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Originally Posted by Bonsai Tree
^^I'm only OK with this if they keep the same number of lanes. No making it bigger, like half the proposals. Renderings have the same number, so that's maybe a good sign? Would prefer a bus lane as well
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The new road will have full shoulders added plus a "clear zone" without any trees. That makes the "footprint" of the new road much bigger than what we have now, even without any new lanes.
Because rather than taming the speeding drivers with traffic calming and cameras, we have to kowtow to them with the road design so they don't kill themselves while driving 80mph on a 40mph road.
The "safety" data for each of the options has been published, and somehow the one that converts the left lane for buses only has the most projected crashes. So the engineers are juking the stats once again to support more space for drivers and less space for the rest of us.