[Gllug] [OT] Times Article on ABD was Fighting a virus

paul at ma1.se paul at ma1.se
Tue Feb 20 13:22:13 UTC 2007


John Hearns wrote:
> John G Walker wrote:
>>
>> Clearly bus lanes also make a difference. But a moment's thought will
>> tell you that the introduction of bus lanes will also cause congestion
>> in the other lanes (same amount of traffic in a smaller space). 
> 
> Not so. It is a matter of impedance matching (hey - we're veering closer 
> to topic here). If there is a hold-up or slow-up further down a route 
> then no matter how many lanes you have - ten, twenty, thirty then 
> traffic will still come to a grinding halt. All you create is a wider 
> car park.

Hey I thought you were going to say that bus lanes were like leased 
lines and the remaining car lanes, more a contended ADSL service with 
lots of P2P on it, then we would almost have been on topic!

regards


Paul Lee
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