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Originally Posted by left of center
^ What about all the ridiculous amount of traffic that single bottleneck will cause? Not to mention that it would literally destroy whichever street that single on/off ramp unloaded to. Look at Ohio/Ontario streets in River North or Congress in the South Loop for reference. This will be much worse. (and will also make those exits worse as well)
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Inconvenience drivers to improve the surrounding neighborhood? Sure.
You just end up with one auto sewer instead of lots of them. It would be like the Holland Tunnel entrance in Manhattan. Sure Varick St. is a complete hellhole, but nothing else is.
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You could also vastly reduce the amount of space taken up by the exit at Ohio St by making the ramps tighter. This would require lower vehicle speeds (so what) but could free up at least a couple of city blocks for development and/or new parks. Most of the world’s really major cities have much tighter onramps/offramps near downtown.
This thing is fucking enormous:
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