I've spent alot of my life commuting. Before getting into real estate I worked many years in Silicon Valley. I've given it much thought. The 20 mile trip would some times take up to two hours to get from point A to point B in bumper to bumper rush hour traffic.
There has to be a better way of doing this entire highway experience.
It got me to thinking that restricting trucks to the two right hand lanes is just silly. These professional drivers should be all the way over in the center lanes. Let the professional drivers have the most dangerous lanes when it comes to the possibility of head on collisions. Then also allow in to the lane the folks who are going long distrance travelling. Let's just say you need to be travelling more than 25 mile to be in this lane.
The next lane in should be for the folks who are travelling slightly less of a distance, Let's also say you change lenes right if you are exiting the center lane. Let's restrict this to people with 10 - 24 miles to their destinations.
Then each lane to the right you get closer to your destination.
Until you are in the furthest right lane for the people going 1 or 2 miles and exiting... Let's just call them the locals. Let these folks stay in the right lane for easy on and easy off hops!
By doing this, this will increase the likelyhood that the truckers and the long distance drivers keep moving. The right lanes dedicated to the quick on and off without having to dodge all the semi-trailers.
Sacramento and Caltrans, are you paying attention?
What does all this have to do with real estate, it's all about quality of life...... and where you live.
