Comments on: Excellent transport initiative http://alexfoster.me.uk/2009/10/30/excellent-transport-initiative/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:38:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: niles http://alexfoster.me.uk/2009/10/30/excellent-transport-initiative/#comment-1329 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:27:49 +0000 http://www.alexfoster.me.uk/?p=2492#comment-1329 It’s more of a “junction improvement” scheme than a “widening scheme” – the widening is limited to one lane, in one direction, for only a small bit of the route, whilst the junction improvements will be at 10 different junctions – major traffic interventions to keep traffic moving. And the widening is kinda quid pro quo for the Turning Point scheme in the city centre that actually reduced road space for cars and reduced traffic considerably.

]]> By: Andy http://alexfoster.me.uk/2009/10/30/excellent-transport-initiative/#comment-1328 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:08:57 +0000 http://www.alexfoster.me.uk/?p=2492#comment-1328 I think you’ve got a bit too much faith in road widening making things ‘better’.

You widen a road and traffic increases to fill it as people now perceive it to be a viable route again. In time it just becomes jammed up again.

Kind of the opposite of what we want in traffic volume terms, jam problem only temporarily solved and residents’ quality of life decreased.

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