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  • T. Hex@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldUtter trash newspaper
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    1 month ago

    Say that street A feeds into street B. Street A flows freely and is necessary for a different bus route. Street B is a bottleneck, both cars and buses pass through slowly.

    If you remove a car lane from street B, the cars might back up into street A and impede both cars and buses that previously flowed freely through street A.

    It’s a contrived example, but honestly I can think of a few places like this near me.

    I realize now I shouldn’t have broached this topic in fuckcars 😂


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    1 month ago

    Bus lanes have higher throughput of commuters than car lanes.

    To play devil’s advocate…

    Bus lanes having higher throughput doesn’t imply that it’s always the right choice to replace car lanes with bus lanes.

    If the road was a major bottleneck for cars and this change made it even narrower, it could hurt throughput for both cars and buses!