08-23-2014, 11:16 AM
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Originally posted by Seeb
The part that really irks me is that this isn't going to fix the problem. This phase of the project stop before shower drive so it just moves the bottle neck down the road.
The reason the bottleneck is so bad is that you have the light/vehicles where traffic comes from Kea'au AND the two lanes coming from 11, so currently it's really 3 lanes merging into one. Pushing the merge down the road should streamline it because it creates enough distance that it will be 2 lanes merging into 1 instead of 3 (the right lane of 11 doesn't shut down where Kilauea merges into it, and most drivers in the right lane don't move to the left to avoid the merge, people CAN learn how to merge, given enough time... however they will never learn how to decipher the "Slower Traffic Keep Right" enigma).
You are right it's not a fix, but if it's a temporary improvement until they can move onto the next stages, I'll take it.