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Reducing congestion and the kind of dangerous behaviour that produces presumably has some impact? You'd think that spread out cars all travelling at similar spe
by zelos 5y ago
Reducing congestion and the kind of dangerous behaviour that produces presumably has some impact? You'd think that spread out cars all travelling at similar speeds are in general safer than more tightly packed cars with impatient drivers overtaking, switching lanes and so on.
- VBprogrammer 5y agoThe comparison I was making was with a road with the same number of live lanes with and without a hard shoulder. You may regard this as an unfair comparison because the cost to fully add a new lane is so much higher. However, I'd postulate that any improvement in safety due to a reduction in congestion is bound to suffer from the Jevons paradox in the fullness of time.