You said there were many fatal accidents in the area of the service roads of the limited access highways. When that occurs, you have the access road to keep traffic moving, albeit at a slow pace, to get around the crash. Under the current plans, all that traffic will be forced onto small side roads. That will be very dangerous for residents and inconvenient for motorists. And your one second delay, which I find unbelievable, goes way out the window.

So we’re not talking many fatalities. There are quite a few crashes out there. When a crash occurs along Route 1, there is no room for maneuverability on the main line; so, it automatically incurs a roadway closure of at least a lane, possibly two lanes and that diverts traffic onto the frontage road. At that point you do get cut through traffic of people trying to get around the service roads, going out through the neighborhoods in that case.

The roadway will be wider, so you’ll have two travel lanes on mainline Route 1 in each direction. You’ll have five foot inside shoulders and 12-14 foot outside shoulders. That makes it easier to actually move traffic around an accident or even get traffic or disabled vehicles off the roadway onto the shoulder to maneuver around the crash site.