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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]traffic congestion is a function a terrible land use planning. Not road network necessarily.   Widening major roads always leads to MORE traffic as more people will start using again.
-A professional urban planner[/quote]

People/commuters are blood and roads along with transit are a circulatory system.  If you don't build more roads the existing system will literally burst.

[b]Adding more lanes increases overall capacity and allows more people to move throughout a region.[/b]

Now, what actually needs to happen is more Business needs to be located in PG county and Frederick so the road network is actually utilized in both directions.

The fallacy of this region is most of the commuting destinations are in the North West Quadrant instead of equally spread out in the other 3 quadrant areas.[/quote]

Reducing the amount of space that commuters need in order to move throughout the region also adds capacity- you can fit many more people on a bus or a train than in a car that takes up the same amount of space.  [/quote]
This makes zero sense. Absolutely zero. Removing capacity does not increase capacity. How foolish and a clear example of people thinking that they are too smart for their own good. [/quote]

A bus that fits 100 people in the same space as three cars that fit 15 people is reducing capacity?[/quote]
The most common bus in the Ride On fleet has a capacity for about 30 riders. The largest bus for the DASH service is about 60 riders.

Average daily traffic volume on 355 is about 50,000 cars on 6 travel lanes. Assuming that each car only has one person means that on an average day (including Sunday), each lane on 355 carries 8,300 people (at minimum) in a car.

Removing one lane and giving to exclusive BRT bus service would require about 140 completely full buses to capacity to run in that one lane to match the throughput. That is basically 6 buses per hour running 24 hours a day. Or one completely full to capacity BRT bus running every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day, every day.

Hopefully you have a better explanation for your ridiculous ideas that removing capacity is not removing capacity. [/quote]

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