Daily conversation: What is the worst possible answer?

[kphoger]

9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?

Lemonade stand.

[Roadgeekteen]

Definitely short, but let's get one out.

9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?

Stop shipping freight between the 2 cities. If the cities want to thrive, they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

[kkt]

Definitely short, but let's get one out.

9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?

Expand the existing 2-lane highway into a 4-lane, limited access facility, condemning as much of the small town as is needed for the right of way.

[pderocco]

9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?

A trebuchet and a net on each side of town.

[Great Lakes Roads]

Definitely short, but let's get one out.

9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?

Build a toll road, Chicago Skyway style!

[wanderer2575]

Definitely short, but let's get one out.

9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?

Further road diet to add bike lanes.

[LilianaUwU]

9/25/2025:

Why has there never been an I-47 or US 47?

There is an I-47, what are you talking about?

[GaryV]

Definitely short, but let's get one out.

9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?

Subways. The local traffic in the small town will be diverted to mass transit, leaving the highway open for the trucks and other long-distance traffic.

[Scott5114]

9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?

Spend the entire budget on cheese and run away to Mexico.

[PColumbus73]

Definitely short, but let's get one out.

9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?

9/27/25: Conversely, Turbeville, SC is locally infamous as a speed trap, which towns would you use to extract revenue from out-of-towners promote public safety? And how would you counter answers from yesterday's question?

[xonhulu]

9/27/25: Conversely, Turbeville, SC is locally infamous as a speed trap, which towns would you use to extract revenue from out-of-towners promote public safety? And how would you counter answers from yesterday's question?

The town is almost named "Turboville," and they don't let you speed there? That's the most obvious case of entrapment the legal system has ever seen.  I've never even been there, but I'm still seriously considering suing them.

[Big John]

Definitely short, but let's get one out.

9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?

raze the town.

[Mapmikey]

Definitely short, but let's get one out.

9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?

A cut and cover project that places all of the affected properties below ground with the expanded through route on top.

[wanderer2575]

Definitely short, but let's get one out.

9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?

Five-level stack interchange to replace the town's only traffic signal at the intersection of Main Street and First Avenue.

[Max Rockatansky]

Definitely short, but let's get one out.

9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?

Purchase a fleet with helicopters with graphing hooks to transport traffic over the city congestion. 

[kurumi]

If we were truly coming up with the worst possible answers, this thread would already be locked

[Max Rockatansky]

If we were truly coming up with the worst possible answers, this thread would already be locked

That reads like an endorsement for the helicopters with graphing hooks concept...