General Road and Highway Discussion

[Markster]

The point of that design is to have greater capacity through the intersection. 2 lanes of cars starting from a standstill has less throughput than one lane of cars at speed. I don't feel particular guilt over taking the soon-to-disappear lane. Once we're past the intersection, space opens up, and there's room to merge. Sometimes, people are so deadfast about all queueing in the through-lane, that the entire queue does not make it through the intersection in the light phase. If they had used both lanes, they would clear out the queue. They may need to go slow on the far side to sort back into a single lane, but they will make it through.