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That third lane is probably a slow lane for an uphill gradient. If highway 2, it's not a motorway in the sense of having exits, I'm a bit puzzled from streetview it appears to have one lane in each direction in the Cascades. Seattle is a larger city (including its suburbs) than anything in Ireland or Scotland. That area is obviously unpopulated, but it may get city tourist traffic.
Yes I have but in Scotland and Ireland as a whole most of the motorways only have two lanes and our populations are far higher than Washington state.
In Northern Ireland we only have a ten mile stretch of 3 lane motorway in and around Belfast.
Washington state has something like 6.7 million people, while NI only has 1.8 million. And that road in those pics isn't a real motorway ("interstate" in the US). Just a glorified 2-lane with an extra passing lane...lol.
One of the things I like about Georgia is that we've got some big roads spanning the state - one goes from Tennessee to Florida and it's a min of 6 lanes the whole way. Makes for a nice ride.
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Ok maybe I was wrong about the population but that area certainly looks really unpopulated. My county has 250,000 and we don't have any three lane roads.
I definitely think the threshold in America is much, much lower. There are so many roads that could do with being upgraded to Dual Carriageway here.
Ok maybe I was wrong about the population but that area certainly looks really unpopulated. My county has 250,000 and we don't have any three lane roads.
That area is almost uninhabited, other parts of the state are populated, particularly by Seattle and the Puget Sound.
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I definitely think the threshold in America is much, much lower. There are so many roads that could do with being upgraded to Dual Carriageway here.
Seems like the thershold tends to be a bit lower in the Northeast than the rest of the country.
The threshold is based on politicians' willingness to spend money on needed infrastructure...lol. Some states are a lot stingier with their roads than others.
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