I’ve been slowly sending these memes to my dad as an experiment, he said this earlier today
(This was without me sending a meme related to this for a while). He’s converting!
What is this for? Is it a border crossing? They all seem stuck on the line
Edit: It’s a toll road. Which yeah, extra lanes would make sense in that case as you could process more vehicles quicker.
I am all for pedestrian centred infrastructure and there is plenty of reasons why the “just one more lane” doesn’t work but you don’t have to make this crap up
This is the Oakland bay bridge. The lanes only expand to this wide to accommodate more toll booths. Because cars move slower on lanes when they are paying tolls, the tolls will become a bottleneck unless there are more toll lanes than highway lanes. You can see up ahead where the lanes merge back together again.
This is the only direct road connection between Oakland and San Francisco, so of course there will be heavy traffic no matter how much public transport you have. And the bay area has decent public transport by american standards, which isn’t saying much, but many people live close to commuter rail.
I don’t see the problem with this, there are much worse examples of modern car infrastructure imo.
Having seen Bart and Caltrain I rolled my eyes at “And the bay area has decent public transport by american standards”.
Well where I live there is virtually 0 public transport, why I say “by American standards, which isn’t saying much”
I thought most toll booths have been replaced with camera systems that bill you based on the license plate registration.
That’s what I thought too, in my area you just put a dingus toll sticker
I don’t see the problem with this, there are much worse examples of modern car infrastructure imo.
Like having toll booths, for example?
I was trying to figure out the context here. It looks like it is a larger highway and other sources feeding into the constrained space of the bridge. To keep traffic orderly on the bridge, they regulate cars entering onto the bridge with lights. You can just barely see how they go from 21 lanes down to just five.
Yet the supporters of this are the people that fight tooth and nail against expanding or upgrading bus or passenger train lines.
