This does not address my point at all. I agreed that your suggestion would not necessarily negatively impact the total throughput on your route.
My point was that your route does not exist in a vacuum and the utility of the open lane may not be obvious without having the same information available as the traffic engineers who designed the closure.
They are waiting for a committee to release their investigation first. That is supposed to happen by 11/17.
They dovthis because as obvious as it is that Santos is a crook its just as "obvious" to republicans that Biden is guilty of who knows what.