Holy shiat, is that a dumb idea. Where does a car that breaks down go?

You can build all the 36 lane wide highways you want, but invariably, all 36 will be occupied simultaneously in parallel by people texting, putting on makeup, cooking Bananas Foster on a portable grill on the dash, or whatever.

Proper lane enforcement (stay right unless passing, yield lane to faster cars) a la Autobahn is the ONLY way America will ever get ahead of the game. Police can stop all the speeders on the planet and make a shiat-ton of money, but the REAL issue is PEOPLE DON'T GET OUT OF THE FARKING FAST LANE. If you want to drive 50 and give yourself a pedicure, fine, just get over to the right and yield to everyone else, instead of forcing your stupidity on everyone else.

jake_lex: Where does a car that breaks down go?

Simple.. They installed one of these every couple miles.. A claw-copter snags your busted-ass vehicle, and drops it in!

Chaos Theory and Hydrodynamics are in Chopper One hovering over 400, laughing and making commentary.

/the latter is a decent model for understanding traffic flow

Diogenes: Chaos Theory and Hydrodynamics are in Chopper One hovering over 400, laughing and making commentary.

/the latter is a decent model for understanding traffic flow

This is true. Traffic will expand to fit the roads.

markie_farkie: Police can stop all the speeders on the planet and make a shiat-ton of money

I think that's their plan.

GDOT put out barrels around 8:30 a.m. Monday to stop drivers from using a section of the shoulder near the Northridge exit, Channel 2's Amanda Cook reported. GDOT said it will have to make it more clear for drivers that they cannot use that small section of the shoulder

Anyone know what happens when you funnel 4 lanes of traffic into 3? Anyone? Buehler? Buehler?

Please. This is a city with residents that are AGAINST investing in public transport because it might allow undesirables to enter their foreclosure-ridden neighborhoods. Ugh. Atlanta's commuters deserve all the grief they get.

Marcus Aurelius: GDOT put out barrels around 8:30 a.m. Monday to stop drivers from using a section of the shoulder near the Northridge exit, Channel 2's Amanda Cook reported. GDOT said it will have to make it more clear for drivers that they cannot use that small section of the shoulder

Anyone know what happens when you funnel 4 lanes of traffic into 3? Anyone? Buehler? Buehler?

I'll see your 4 lanes to 3, and raise you 4 lanes to two with incoming merging traffic from a highway intersection, right before the highway has a steep two mile long incline.

That was my commute for two years (Sommerville to Basking Ridge, NJ on 287). What should have been an 18 minute commute was always inevitably longer than a hour.

coco ebert: Atlanta's commuters deserve all the grief they get.

That, and naming every street Peachtree-something, and having the name change every six blocks. WTF???

jake_lex: Holy shiat, is that a dumb idea. Where does a car that breaks down go?

They've been doing this in Boston for a long time now. The answer is to put your car in neutral. The guy behind you is only six inches off your bumper, he'll hardly notice that his mileage has halved.

Is this part tolled? Has Georgia considered congestion pricing?

The speed limit for the shoulder is 45 mph, instead of 65 mph on the rest of the highway.

The sign shows an advisory speed, not a speed limit.

Just another one of Nathan Deal's big ideas. One would think they'd learned their lesson with the pay as you go toll lanes on 85 heading north. As a friend told me not too long ago: Deal figures that if he throws enough shiat at the wall something will eventually stick.

markie_farkie: You can build all the 36 lane wide highways you want, but invariably, all 36 will be occupied simultaneously in parallel by people texting, putting on makeup, cooking Bananas Foster on a portable grill on the dash, or whatever.

Proper lane enforcement (stay right unless passing, yield lane to faster cars) a la Autobahn is the ONLY way America will ever get ahead of the game. Police can stop all the speeders on the planet and make a shiat-ton of money, but the REAL issue is PEOPLE DON'T GET OUT OF THE FARKING FAST LANE. If you want to drive 50 and give yourself a pedicure, fine, just get over to the right and yield to everyone else, instead of forcing your stupidity on everyone else.

Here's my one driving rule: when on a multi lane road, look out the passenger window. If you see cars passing you in that lane, move over. Repeat as necessary.

markie_farkie: You can build all the 36 lane wide highways you want, but invariably, all 36 will be occupied simultaneously in parallel by people texting, putting on makeup, cooking Bananas Foster on a portable grill on the dash, or whatever.

Proper lane enforcement (stay right unless passing, yield lane to faster cars) a la Autobahn is the ONLY way America will ever get ahead of the game. Police can stop all the speeders on the planet and make a shiat-ton of money, but the REAL issue is PEOPLE DON'T GET OUT OF THE FARKING FAST LANE. If you want to drive 50 and give yourself a pedicure, fine, just get over to the right and yield to everyone else, instead of forcing your stupidity on everyone else.

What about the Einstein Andretti's who will be in the left most of the 36 lanes until the last 40 feet of the right lane exit he needs while brushing his teeth and checking in on 4square?

GDOT put out barrels around 8:30 a.m. Monday to stop drivers from using a section of the shoulder near the Northridge exit, Channel 2's Amanda Cook reported. GDOT said it will have to make it more clear for drivers that they cannot use that small section of the shoulder.

So wait, you open the highway up an extra lane, and then at one point, merge it back down a lane, only to open it back up after that?

I think I figured out why you have traffic.

bulldg4life: This is all worthless deck chair re-arranging. The state says there is no money to make GA-400 in to 5-6 lanes. The counties are scared to death at the thought of asking the rich areas to foot the bill.

Therefore, this is what we get.

For a toll road that has had a toll 5 years longer than originally planned....it's amazing that no work can get done.

All that being said, I'm sitting on 85 north as we speak....so I can only chuckle.

I bet you voted for Deal.
j/k

I'm not sure if you're familiar with Atlanta Road where it crosses the 'Hooch. It's the border for Cobb/Fulton Counties. There's a nice bridge that crosses the river. It's four lanes on each side of the river. However, because Fulton and Cobb got into a decade long dick waving contest, the bridge was only two lanes. Talk about a farking nightmare!

bulldg4life: KingKauff: Just another one of Nathan Deal's big ideas. One would think they'd learned their lesson with the pay as you go toll lanes on 85 heading north. As a friend told me not too long ago: Deal figures that if he throws enough shiat at the wall something will eventually stick.

These are the stupidest goddamn things known to man.

They are mostly empty and penalize carpooling.

It's even farked on the weekends.

Also, whose bright idea was it to have 285 merge on to the Georgia Autobahn (a.k.a. 400) in the left lane?

poot_rootbeer: markie_farkie: just get over to the right and yield to everyone else, instead of forcing your stupidity on everyone else.

Lane changes are extremely disruptive in medium to heavy traffic. It often causes cars already in the lane to have to brake to maintain safe distance between vehicles, which means the cars behind them have to brake, which accumulates and causes traffic jams.

Choose the best lane to get in based on how far you'll be traveling, how fast you're comfortable driving, and how crowded each lane already is.

Then farking stay there for as long as necessary.

You get out of here with that crazy talk!