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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
Never understood this line of thinking, if you closed every second intersection on deerfoot the bottle necks would be twice as painful.
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I guess they have done their homework on this from other cities. If you notice, the bottlenecks are where there is weaving. Take Southland and Anderson. If you could get the people exiting onto Southland to exit before the people at Anderson exit, you would have two sets of "off" exits followed by one "on" entrance. Even though Deerfoot narrows to two lanes there, it would flow much better.
Also look at larger cities where they have metered onramps. The point being to limit the number of cars going on, to make the overall merging easier.
Another point, NB Deerfoot gets better right after 64th in the afternoons. You could make the argument that most people have exited by then, but 64th isn't a very busy interchange and the number of cars exiting is less than the previous exits. The point that works is there isn't another onramp until Airport Trail; which is 3.6 km away. Beddinton doesn't count as there isn't an onramp NB.