Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated

Re:Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded... by gt565k on Monday March 29, 2021 @04:06PM (#26627489)

This happened with the bridge collapse on I-85 in Atlanta [1]

I used to take the access road parallel to the bridge and avoid a lot of traffic that was south bound. When the bridge collapsed and I-85 was blocked off, everyone learned about the parallel access road, and it now became a cluster of a traffic hot zone too.

Prior to that, a lot of people were not aware of the alternate route.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_85_bridge_collapse

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Re:Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded... by playingchanges on Monday March 29, 2021 @04:47PM (#26627963)

I’ve seen this happen to a lot of my favorite shortcuts in the east bay since the introduction of waze.

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Re:Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded... by andechs on Monday March 29, 2021 @07:05PM (#26629437)

The discovery of the alternate route by "everyone else" means that the roads are now in more usage.

Unless the bridge collapse resulted in increased traffic levels afterwards, the same traffic that used to go over I85 is now distributed over 2 routes.

While there's a net negative to you, it's likely that a lot of people ended up saving time on their routes.

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Re:Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded... by throwawayfire on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @06:29AM (#26632976)

> it's likely that a lot of people ended up saving time on their routes.

It's theoretically possible this describes a Braess paradox, whereby everybody loses: https://image.slideserve.com/280060/braess-s-paradox-l.jpg

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