The most ridiculous lane allocation setup.

[Zmapper]

Ok, so I was just looking over Northern New Jersey in Google Earth for no particular reason when this spot popped out. On US 202 Wb after crossing I-80, why do 4 lanes merge into 1? That just seems very ridiculous and I wonder if a highway was to extend to the south? 
http://goo.gl/maps/EIAn

[Ace10]

Maybe for future expansion of the ramps of the interchange? Adding another lane to each ramp wouldn't be too hard because the roadway that runs North-South already has the lanes to support it. At least that's the best answer I have. I guess most people exit onto whichever freeway that is (Google Maps isn't telling me but from your post I'm assuming it's I-80), and there is not a lot of traffic that goes into that residential area. It is only about 2 lanes to begin with north of / before the interchange anyway.

[sammack]

Welcome to NJ.  You must understand in NJ, frwys were superimposed on a 18th c transportation system so this is what you are going to get.

Any other questions???

[Alps]

Here is the particular case with US 202 SB:

1) It's maintained by Morris County.  The state has limited say in the design and no say in the maintenance.
2) You have two lanes coming from US 202 SB and three coming from Cherry Hill Rd. (one of which is from 80 WB) merging into four.  Much of the Cherry Hill Rd. traffic is going to I-80.  That lane exits on the right, but it's not an Exit Only because you just brought on traffic from I-80 WB.
3) Much of the US 202 traffic already went to I-80 West.  I really don't know why that's not one lane, because traffic volumes only require one lane.  (Pan eastward to the CR 511 intersection - there's only one left-turn, through, or right-turn lane feeding into US 202 SB, so why does it need two lanes?)
4) Therefore, the two lanes from US 202 only need to be one lane, the traffic from Cherry Hill Rd. and 80 WB combined only need to be one lane.  If it were actually striped that way, you'd only have two lanes merging into one instead of four into one.  Trust me, this isn't a traffic constraint compared to other intersections in the area.

[Alps]

Welcome to NJ.  You must understand in NJ, frwys were superimposed on a 18th c transportation system so this is what you are going to get.

Any other questions???

You're not from NJ, are you.

[agentsteel53]

Welcome to NJ.  You must understand in NJ, frwys were superimposed on a 18th c transportation system so this is what you are going to get.

Any other questions???

except in Somerset County, where the absence of a freeway is superimposed onto an 18th century system of nobility and entitlement.

[Bryant5493]

This is equally bad.

Old National Highway, College Park, Fulton County, Georgia


Be well,

Bryant