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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 2919573, member: 716"]
The traffic pattern is outdated and a hindrance to maintaining posted speeds, which is ironic because 481 is by far the newest of the area freeways; even the 90-East Genesee portion was, if I'm not mistaken, built in the '70s and the southern part was under construction into the '80s. The northbound East Genesee acceleration lane is long, but its curves don't really provide enough space to get up to 65, which leads to slow traffic -- a lot of which wants to merge across two lanes to 690 in under a mile -- getting dumped in with people going 70. 690's off-ramp presents a whole new problem with the weird left merge and the abrupt shift to two lanes over the DeWitt Yards bridge. And the cloverleafs in general don't really support safe merging in an area that seems to have more traffic driving faster than it was designed for. It would slow through-traffic on East Genesee and Kirkville, but SPUIs (like many of 690's interchanges) I think would be a much better treatment. And an extra lane could hurt (and I'm far from a "more traffic, extra lane solves all" kind of guy).
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