This is a problem with old highways that were upgraded to substandard interstates. That isn't the case here with plenty of room to build a safer design.
By the way, this article first appeared in a recent Something Awful thread. It is very long but has heaps of information for anyone interested in highway design.
Most Transport Agencies are basically just high way construction offices. That is basically why they were created, or at least when state level DoT became massive, to construct highway.
They can build an mind glowingly insane 7 level loop clover with integrated rocket launcher and helipad but they couldn't design a safe and efficient pedestrian crossing if it smacked them in the face.
They are still planning new highways right threw actual real existing cities as if they were Robert Moses. Its literal insanity.
This is nothing new. Read Robert Caro's 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning book THE POWER BROKER if you wanna know about roads and highways and freeways and how expanding them only makes traffic worse.
Plenty of interstates have a two-tier lane system, one tier with lots of exits, and an expressway tier with fewer exits/entrances. That is not a new innovation.
The Interstate Highway System is a different system - entirely controlled-access motorways, with a minimum of 4 lanes, divided, and no at-grade crossings.
Yeah, I'm a 'roadgeek' and I thought many of the highway pages were overly verbose trivia. Long route descriptions clearly just taken from a map, random citations about ditch work in 2014 etc. Very little history or substance.
"Let's Turn this Dangerous, Expensive Road Back into a Safe Neighborhood Street"
"Dying to Widen Highways - Oregon’s DOT seems to be more concerned with making cars go faster than saving lives."
The site seems to have a rather ... specific focus.
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