General Road and Highway Discussion

[tomh009]

Honestly, probably the best thing they could do is separate the right-most lanes exiting onto the Parkway east/northbound from the left-most lanes to King/westbound parkway. I drive through there all the time, and notice two things: people jumping in from the right at the last minute (causing a cascade of braking behind them and slowing down the whole lane) or truckers at a crawl leaving absolutely massive amounts of space ahead of them in anticipation of the previously mentioned people jumping ahead. Neither behaviour is helpful for smooth, high volume movement at the exit. This separation would have to go quite far back all the way to the Weber exit, but I think it would still be worthwhile and make the whole section safer and run more smoothly.

This would make sense. Even installing plastic bollards on either side of the Stratford-bound exit lane would stop this behaviour with no substantial construction costs required. People force their way into the Stratford-bound lane from both sides, and just securing one side would just move the lane-jumpers to the other side.