09-15-2017, 09:43 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-15-2017, 10:02 AM by robdrimmie.)
Historically traffic from Alpine onto Homer Watson backed up a lot (as far back as the Kia dealership in extreme cases) in the mornings, because the stretch of Ottawa from Alpine to Homer Watson would be completely full (often going as far back as Strausberg). Most of the traffic was to get onto the highway, which was on the other side of Homer Watson.
With the changes to how the highway is accessed and exited and the switch to roundabouts it seems like traffic flows a lot more smoothly from Alpine, but I've avoided the roundabouts when biking and the 11 doesn't go that way currently. My very uneducated guess would be that the bypass lane is not strictly required but since a lot of traffic in theory will be coming from Fischer Hallman direction along Ottawa and turning left at the Alpine roundabout to get onto the highway, the bypass will be moderately helpful.
If the 11 goes back to its old route (getting to Ottawa along Flint and Alpine from Kingswood), then it will probably be the most benefitted, until the route gets shuttered.
With the changes to how the highway is accessed and exited and the switch to roundabouts it seems like traffic flows a lot more smoothly from Alpine, but I've avoided the roundabouts when biking and the 11 doesn't go that way currently. My very uneducated guess would be that the bypass lane is not strictly required but since a lot of traffic in theory will be coming from Fischer Hallman direction along Ottawa and turning left at the Alpine roundabout to get onto the highway, the bypass will be moderately helpful.
If the 11 goes back to its old route (getting to Ottawa along Flint and Alpine from Kingswood), then it will probably be the most benefitted, until the route gets shuttered.