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Originally Posted by chemgear
When there is an accident/construction and a lane is closed downtown, the delay seems surely more than a minute
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You're comparing unexpected bottlenecks to permanent lane reductions on under-utilized roads. It's a bad comparison for a few reasons:
- Bottlenecking creates traffic. A two lane road that goes down to one could have traffic where a one lane road wouldn't because of the merging required and traffic waves caused by braking.
- Traffic patterns adapt to permanent changes.