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This never would have happened if people wouldn’t have voted for Obama!
Thats obviously Europe or the UK….Here in America, we don’t have long, rectangular license plates, or super gay little cars…remember, we are gas guzzling, energy wasting, money loving American’s….We like out trucks, our gas and out fast food.
…nor do we drive on the left side of the road. Way to be observant @hotpants14
For the time being. Americans certainly are the thorn in my side.
RACIST!
That actually does ease congestion, because it’s usually the merging when the two lanes eventually join again that causes the backup (people often slow down to merge). So closing the second lane is often done, especially during holidays when the roads are packed. Just so you know…
Way to ruin the joke, dickhead. >:(
True indeed. Not funny, sadly, but true.
Here’s what’s ironic: Cities building little extra lanes on roads to ease congestion. They actually make things worse when the extra lane runs out and everyone has to merge together again.
This could only happen in the UK
I’d bet folding money on it!
Nope I’m sorry to say i’ve seen it over here (Australia)
Well maybe, but I still got this cough
You know, as random as it is, I’m sure thats on the A30 in Cornwall just around Bodmin…
The government doing its job
Actually this is on the A38 on the hill up to Landrake in Cornwall (not that far from Bodmin you are right). Having that lane shut off makes no difference to the congestion at all = it is still a nightmare during the tourist season!
That’s a big waste of Nasonex.
Ahh…Bureaucracy!!! We all have it, we all hate, yet we just can’t get rid of it (its been in existance for all of recorded history any way).
maybe if you close another one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox
“Braess’s paradox, credited to the mathematician Dietrich Braess, states that adding extra capacity to a network, when the moving entities selfishly choose their route, can in some cases reduce overall performance. This is because the Nash equilibrium of such a system is not necessarily optimal.”
In other words, sometimes removing choice and capacity (i.e. more lanes, more roads) makes it better for everyone.
so they closed the lane, so we’ve all slowed to a crawl, so i can take my hands off the wheel and blow my nose without a problem. thanks, lane closed to ease congestion!
Only in the UK would they spend loads of money to build the extra lane…. then close it down when it gets too busy….
what are you talking about? it IS helping, see? no congestion in that lane!
They should close the other lane also. Then there will be no congestion at all!
Well, it did ease the congestion in the closed lane. Look how clear it is!