that road is slower, calmer, no road rage or angry drivers and everyone gets through in less time
Perception is a funny thing. Experiencing road rage and anger distorts one’s sense of how much time something takes. The true test of “everyone gets through in less time” is a clock and a car counter.
And I’ve done that. While it’s tough to get repeatable traffic, I go through there often. For my most common destination, gps estimate is consistently 3 min less than before
I lived in a city that was doing a lot of lane count reduction, installation of traffic circles, etc. Results were… mixed. It definitely was achieving “aesthetic improvement” with more trees and green features along what used to be bare asphalt and concrete corridors - sometimes the traffic did “flow better” on the lane count reduced roads, but I think a lot of that was attributable to significant volume diverting to alternate routes. Then they had their “disaster area” situations that only got worse no matter what they did - overdevelopment underserved is a formidable problem.
Perception is a funny thing. Experiencing road rage and anger distorts one’s sense of how much time something takes. The true test of “everyone gets through in less time” is a clock and a car counter.
And I’ve done that. While it’s tough to get repeatable traffic, I go through there often. For my most common destination, gps estimate is consistently 3 min less than before
I lived in a city that was doing a lot of lane count reduction, installation of traffic circles, etc. Results were… mixed. It definitely was achieving “aesthetic improvement” with more trees and green features along what used to be bare asphalt and concrete corridors - sometimes the traffic did “flow better” on the lane count reduced roads, but I think a lot of that was attributable to significant volume diverting to alternate routes. Then they had their “disaster area” situations that only got worse no matter what they did - overdevelopment underserved is a formidable problem.