Submitted by sudosudoku t3_ydwvxr in pittsburgh
BackmarkerLife t1_ity1atw wrote
Reply to comment by mazhas in Why is 28 the most dysfunctional road ever designed? by sudosudoku
Here's 28 in 2004 just before they started the massive upgrades.
https://imgur.com/fwPNbng (dotted line is proposal at the time)
40th, 31st, then a light at 16th was 28. You HAD to drive through the North Side to get on to 279, there was no easy way to get on to 579. (For some reason I'm misremembering if there was a random light between 31st and 16th for businesses or just traffic flow - there was a car garage, a historic church to consider in the construction as well.)
There were a fuckton of accidents in that corridor. You hear about accidents now due to speed, etc. There were major multicar accidents and head on collisions. There were no jersey barriers between North and South directions. At some point they added those flex posts that separate the bike lanes these days. Drivers drove just as fast on 28 in 2004 as they drive today: 80mph.
All of these bypasses below East to West did not exist and it made traffic hell in the North Side.
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