Re: Comet impact in the Eastern United States - Feasibility of Evacuation

David V. Loewe, Jr schrieb:
> On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:49:21 -0400, dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (David
> DeLaney) wrote:
> 
>> David V. Loewe, Jr <daveloewe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>>> AFAIK, the best-organised motorway traffic will never reach the 
>>>> capacities of rail trans****t; it's unlikely that the 13-second
headway 
>>>> that was achieved on the Voie sacrée can be much improved on.
Probably, 
>>>> even on very large motorways, only the two outermost lanes can be
used, 
>>>> because the inner lanes will quickly be blocked by broken-down
vehicles 
>>>> that cannot be pushed off the road. 
>>> ?
>>>
>>> Huh?  Why?
>> The traffic _cannot stop_. Not at all. Anyone who breaks down in an
inner
>> lane and can't manage to get to an outer lane 
> 
> Why not?
> 
> Are cars breaking down on the roads at the rate you describe anywhere?

You bet enough will be breaking down to make it an issue. Nobody was 
predicting any actual rate.

> Why can't the brokendown cars be pushed over to the shoulder by a
> couple of men?

They can, but only on the outermost lanes. Which is what we're saying.

> Even if a car becomes disabled and can't be moved out of the fast
> lane, why is the road now completely blocked?

It isn't, and nobody ever claimed that. It just blocks the lane it can't 
be moved out of.

> Both you and Matthias seem to be assuming things that are quite
> foreign to my experience.

Please check how things were done on the Voie sacrée and the Red Ball 
Express. There are real-world examples for ultra-high-throughput road 
logistics.

mawa
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