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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Jack_S [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by CSSHEGEWISCH Traffic congestion will be difficult to solve without public transit unless you plan to raise the eminent domain issue to further widen 6-lane and 8-lane freeways (and some even wider ones). The cost of property acquistion in built-up urban areas plus doing battle with NIMBY's makes a freeway-only approach quite unpracticable. [/quote] Where I-5 and I-405 merge in Orange County, CA, at one point the resulting freeway is 26 lanes wide, 13 each way. And, twice a day, it is the location of one of the worst rush hour traffic jams. Adding lanes won't work for long: the new capacity merely generates more traffic. And, in South Pasadena, Caltrans has given up on trying to complete the 710 freeway on the surface. Due to the soaring cost of real estate they have concluded that it would be cheaper to dig a 5 mle tunnel (freeway wide) to link with the 210. Meanwhile, increasing MetroLink, light rail, and subway usage has resulted in LA Union Station handling over 40,000 passengers per day. Jack [/quote] Only 40,000? That is a drop in the bucket for what is the Nations Second Largest City. Chicago and New Yorks systems handles Hundreds of thousands a day
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