{"id":207624612,"date":"2011-08-01T01:30:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T01:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=207624612"},"modified":"2011-08-01T01:30:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T01:30:12","slug":"lane-closed-to-ease-congestion-actually-not-a-crazy-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=207624612","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Lane closed to ease congestion&quot; actually not a crazy fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by David Alpert<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">Michael sent along this amusing &#8220;FAIL&#8221; photo&#8230; but is it really a fail at all?\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blog_image\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/failblog.org\/2011\/07\/20\/epic-fail-photos-classic-lane-closure-fail\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.greatergreaterwashington.org\/images\/201107\/291031.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><br \/>Image from FAIL Blog.<\/div>\n<p>At first blush, this looks ridiculous. How can closing a lane ease congestion? But actually, it can. <a name=\"more\" id=\"more\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say you have a road that&#8217;s one lane in each direction. At one spot, it turns into 2 lanes each direction, then back to 1. What will happen?\n<\/p>\n<p>People will speed up when the road widens, then merge back where it narrows. Merging creates &#8220;friction,&#8221; forcing drivers to slow down a little more than usual and to wait for each other which can be inefficient. The end result is lower throughput overall than if the road simply stayed one lane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post\/11481\/lane-closed-to-ease-congestion-actually-not-a-crazy-fail\/\">https:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post\/11481\/lane-closed-to-ease-congestion-actually-not-a-crazy-fail\/<\/a>oldId.20110801013012874<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by David Alpert Michael sent along this amusing &#8220;FAIL&#8221; photo&#8230; but is it really a fail at all? Image from FAIL Blog. At first blush, this looks ridiculous. How can closing a lane ease congestion? But actually, it can. Let&#8217;s say you have a road that&#8217;s one lane in each direction. At one spot, it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=207624612\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;Lane closed to ease congestion&quot; actually not a crazy fail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207624612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207624612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207624612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207624612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207624612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207624612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207624612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}