I'm not sure you understand how economic evaluations work.

Economists have tried to put a dollar value on the experience you describe, quantified from improved reliability, safety, and faster journeys.

The number they arrived at is much lower than what we're paying to achieve it.

It's probable that the U.S. economy won't survive the simultaneous stalling of government expenditure, loss of intellectual talent and participation, and inflationary trade policy.

I'd say WW3 is less likely than widespread poverty and civil unrest.

"the purge of intellectuals, the surge of less-educated radicals, the need to find new ways to generate domestic capital, rising enthusiasm about the potential results mass mobilization might produce, and reaction against the sociopolitical results of the Soviet [Union]'s development strategy"...

Reader: There are no government calculations.

If Canada can get this finished, it will be a significant point of difference between the two countries.

One will be living in the future, the other stuck in the past, and it will be plain for all to see.

Worse: The U.S.A. are the Nazis and the Climate Change.

Sadly, Capitalism requires scarcity, tends towards monopolisation, will externalise whenever possible and will always use strength of wealth to capture regulation.

For these reasons, there is no happy middle without revolution.

The irony is that the TTM guidance will say that an advisory sign is needed in advance of a lane closure.

This does also apply to the cycle lane, however.

The difference is that people care if you block a live traffic lane.

Well yeah... If it's that easy to reduce congestion, who's gonna pay billions of dollars to add lanes to urban highways?

Won't someone think of the consultants?