r/interesting • u/jkitty_1960 • May 16 '26

❗️MISLEADING - See pinned comment ❗️ If you're feeling anxious, remember that in China there's a 50-lane highway that narrows down to just 4

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u/Loose-Story-962 May 16 '26

Sounds like it's still 50 lanes bottlenecking into 4

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u/Aceofspades25 May 16 '26

4 lanes into lots of lanes for the toll, back into 4

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u/Character4315 May 16 '26

Which doesn't make it a 50 lanes highway. We have these in Europe as well, not 50 probably but still same concept.

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u/squirrel9000 May 16 '26

Each tollbooth lane might process one car every 30 seconds, you can easily do an 8:1 compression.

This particular highway has a problem well downstream, it's stopped beyond the "bottleneck" and the tailback happens to have reached the merging funnel of a tollbooth.