The problem with metering seems to be the failure to give stopped drivers enough of a “runway” to reach whatever merge speed is necessary to weave into moving traffic. Otherwise the “new” motorists are trying to slide into a wall of moving steel. There were, until recently, metered stops at the entrances to U.S. 22 in the Allentown-Bethlehem, Pa., area that stopped traffic right at the edge of the travel lane, which was supposed to be 55 mph but often had a defacto speed higher than that, even with heavy traffic triggering the metering along the access ramps. Seems like a simple, common sense acknowledgment that vehicles can’t go from zero to 55 in 50 yards might lead to a more intelligent design.
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The problem with metering seems to be the failure to give stopped drivers enough of a “runway” to reach whatever merge speed is necessary to weave into moving traffic. Otherwise the “new” motorists are trying to slide into a wall of moving steel. There were, until recently, metered stops at the entrances to U.S. 22 in the Allentown-Bethlehem, Pa., area that stopped traffic right at the edge of the travel lane, which was supposed to be 55 mph but often had a defacto speed higher than that, even with heavy traffic triggering the metering along the access ramps. Seems like a simple, common sense acknowledgment that vehicles can’t go from zero to 55 in 50 yards might lead to a more intelligent design.