Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road

[SammyOES]

Not sure if anyone will know/remember this context, but there was always a similar issue in the DC cafeteria at UW. There was one teller with one line on each side, and the teller would take turns serving from each line.

It worked fine with very little traffic (people just lined up one side) and it worked fine with lots of traffic (people lined up on both sides and just picked the shorter line - keeping them roughly the same length). But there was always an awkward moment when there were 3-8 people (depending on your personal beliefs) in a single line and you had to decide if you were going to join that line and be fair to the people ahead of you but probably let a bunch of people behind you start the new line and get served ahead of you, or if you were going to start the new line and be served before a bunch of people that arrived before you.

I guess the solution there was to just start the new line and refuse to be served until you would have been served otherwise.