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How come New York metropolitan area (Incl. Northern New Jersey, New York City, Long Island), especially Northern New Jersey only have 2 - 3 lines per road (not incl. both sides of the road) on their highway? It's the most popolous metropolitan area, and the highest population density in the U.S.
For example, other metropolitan, such as Miami, LA, Atlanta etc. has 5 to 8 lines per road on their highway. We should have the same, our traffic is not better! Not just because of traffic, the U.S. is famous for its huge, wide roads, and New York/NJ doesn't feel like it.
New York Highway (3 lines highway like the picture below is most typical for 90% of New Jersey/New York highways!)
I don't have an answer for that, but at the same time, NJ has the most highways in one compacted area than any other state in the country, and if all of NYC's roads, streets, avenues, etc were all connected into a straight line, it would reach Tokyo.
But we still want wide roads as they have in LA, Miami etc.! We live in the greatest, most popolous and best metropolitan, we deserve having huge roads!!!
if so, reasons mentioned above plus the roads are older (less cars at the time) and adding additional lanes is more difficult.
the driscoll bridge on the Garden State Parkway now has I believe 8 lanes each direction, but this is rare (in fact, it may be the largest in the state).
But we still want wide roads as they have in LA, Miami etc.! We live in the greatest, most popolous and best metropolitan, we deserve having huge roads!!!
But we still want wide roads as they have in LA, Miami etc.! We live in the greatest, most popolous and best metropolitan, we deserve having huge roads!!!
aren't you in florida? am i missing an inside joke?
Because the area was already very dense when they started building the freeways. They had to squeeze them in where they could (see the BQE or the Cross-Bronx). Many of the enormous freeways in the south were built on land that was un- or sparsely populated at the time of construction, i.e., 1950s/60s.
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