Then remove all high rises over 20 stories. Obiviously all the traffic will back into the feeder roads into the highway if the flow is impeded by reducing the.main highway.
Destroy the highway entirely and there will be zero trafic by that logic.
In reality they will have to block off two lanes at a time to repair it and they know it. The real problem is the highway repair funds have been misappropriated. Politicians loves dem gas taxes.
The BQE rehabilitation isn’t being held up over money. It’s a very complicated process that has a lot of legal/property aspects that go back over a hundred years, and has many political landmines as well.