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> The MnDot report...

You are looking at a report from Minnesota's DOT. Their job is to be concerned with roads and cars. Sure, our society is overly focused on cars, but you can hardly blame the DOT for putting out reports on their own subject area.

For example, the number describes how much traffic will go to alternative paths in case of some accident or planned construction work that blocks the road. Then it can be quickly deduced how far they should reroute drivers to get them use the roads that handle the additional load (instead of local streets with low limit on throughput).

No: there are 210 people/minute walking across the bridge (daylight hours only). It's amazing to see: they have to be four abreast to fit them all (two in each direction).

Ha! Love the analogy. I agree. That statistic is totally unhelpful.