Traffic Problem in Rexdale... Slightly Relieved..
Today is May 22, G.Y. 2
Thanks for attending the meeting, despite today being a Saturday.
Thanks for Counsellor _marsh_'s opinions, a new highway by-pass has been constructed in Rexdale, by-passing the town centre. The traffic problem was slightly relieved. It was absolutely necessary, though the environmental activists complained that it cost a lot of 1) money, and 2) damage to the environment. The highway corridor traverses the ecologically sesnitive highlands. It required a lot of terraforming and traversing through woodlands. We have re-instated some of these woodlands, as promised to the environmental activists. However, they see this as an opportunity for the government to promote urban sprawl.
Constructions were also noted as particularly difficult due to the steep landscape of the town on the rise of the highlands.
Figure 1 - Our area of focus: The Town of Rexdale. The new highway corridor created a "scar" in the farmlands, and thus is extremely visible in the satellite imagery.
The New Highway Corridor
Figure 2 - As aforementioned, the new corridor traversed through the farmlands of Rexdale.
Figure 3 - However, the new highway corridor had amazing results. Within 6 months of opening, the highway is carrying 17,756 cars and 8,200 buses. The section of the highway shown here is near the community of Rexdale West.
Figure 4 - Another section of the highway by-pass traversing through parts of the industrial park in Rexdale. (Due to screenshot glitches, I didn't capture the traffic stats properly). However, as I recalled, over 23,000 cars and 9,000 buses travel through the corridor, not to mention about 200 freight trucks.
The new highway by-pass surely helped diverted traffic. Look at
The Old Highway Corridor
Figure 5 - The old highway corridor. This highway corridor was formerly jammed by near 30,000 cars plus 9,000 buses. Now with the diversion provided with the new by-pass has relieved this corridor, down to 18,950 buses and 1,134 cars.
Before
After
Figure 6 - More usage stats of the old corridor. The corridor is still very popular (or become even more popular) for buses, while cars tend to use the new corridor.
Let's do some Before and After analysis here of some in-town routes, and evaluate the usefulness and efficiency of the new corridor.
Before
After
Figure 7 - Before and after of an in-town route. Though the number of buses slightly increased, the number of cars greatly decreased from 26,653 to 430. That's a drop of a whopping 98.3%!!
More before and after analysis.
Before
After
Figure 8 - The number of cars using this in-town avenue drastically decreased from 27,333 cars to 1,078 cars. That's a drop of a whopping 96.1%!!
Figure 9 - Even with the new highway corridor, there are still congested sections from place to place. This is best represented near major intersections, and curves on the highway.
Figure 10 - The general flow of traffic in town. The two corridors are still noted with capacity over 300% in places. The in-town routes that was previously congested has now reduced to 40% of capacity.
Did you think the new highway by-pass worked efficiently? Or do you have another suggestion in mind? (We're still open to more suggestions to solve the problem. Every day in the two commutes, there are at least 80,000 cars and buses, if not more, flowing through this town of 7,000 people.)
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I know I am jumping around between topics, but for your general idea of where are we going next:
NEXT UP: Urban Expansion in Action >>
AND THEN: Queen Elizabeth Corridor >>
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