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Originally Posted by jamesqf

I don't quite follow your logic. (OK, I'm being overly polite, I really think your logic's wrong :-)) If (important point) trip starting times are random, and every car moves twice as fast, then obviously there'll be half as many cars on the road at any given instant. At the other extreme, if every trip starts at the same time, you'll have the same number of cars on the road at the start, but the number will diminish faster.

Of course the real world is somewhere between these two extremes.

This is pretty much what I meant to say... apparently you said it better than I did, since I understood your explanation better than my own. LOL.

Anyway, in this area, it's been proven (and is still being laughed about by people like me) that traffic patterns are VERY VERY VERY difficult to change... they installed a red light from RT581 Gettysburg exit (RT 15 S) to get onto RT 15. It has screwed up traffic patterns considerably, and people still don't seem to know how to react to stopping at a red light on an exit ramp... some don't "see" the light, and drive right through it, since they don't expect it to be there... this has been 4 years in the making.