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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone who has studied the history of Los Angeles freeways/highways should know that any money put towards adding lanes or any type of bridges isn't going to fix the traffic problems.
You buy a single family home in the suburbs and it’s your problem.[/quote]
More lanes will allow more people to cross the bridge.[/quote]

You just repeated what the top PP said. More lanes will allow more people to sit in traffic.[/quote]
It will increase capacity. If the worst case scenario is that traffic will move just as slow, at least more people can move slowly.[/quote]

"Hey, let's spend billions of dollars to create bigger traffic jams!"[/quote]
No. Let’s spend billions to allow more people to get to where they need to go like jobs that facilitate economic activity. [/quote]

If you REALLY wanted that result, then you would support the expansion for mass transit. Spending on single occupancy cars is a fools errand.[/quote]
Cars and transit are not mutually exclusive. Need more capacity for cars and if there is a case for adding transit they can do that too. The current plan is to provide buses priority access to the HOT lanes, which makes a lot of sense. [/quote]

Why do we need more capacity for cars? There isn't already enough congestion?[/quote]
Congestion just means that more people want to use something than there is capacity. Even if adding more lanes had zero impact on congestion it would mean that more people could use the bridge. However, the congestion argument is moot because HOT lanes are tolled at a variable rate to ensure that they maintain minimum speeds. They put an economic price on congestion. [/quote]

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