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The outcome of the NYC bus lanes should come as no surprise (nor should the initial objections!). Properly designed bus lanes, with a reservoir at traffic light stop lines taking as many vehicles as can cross in one cycle, will not cause any additional traffic congestion. This is because the major capacity constraints on any busy road are the stop lines at traffic lights, not the links. Typically a traffic light will be red for just over 50% of the time on any one arm – assuming green times are roughly equal on each arm – taking away a little over 50% of the capacity of the link. But taking away one lane out of two on a link will only take away 50% of the link capacity. So the one remaining lane for general traffic will continue to feed in enough vehicles to ensure a continuous flow across the stop line when the traffic light is green.
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One part of your reply is the really important bit: Properly designed bus lanes … yes, well. True, nonetheless.
As for Innisfil in Canada – horse laugh, somebody did the cost/benefit or accountancy wrongly, didn’t they? Or, in other words a proper bus service would have been cheaper – probably.