One intersection is expected to be so bad that it falls off the scale. And that's the good news. One of the most-cited reasons for this project is that it will encourage people to shop in Ithaca, rather than Syracuse or Binghamton. This is nonsense. Let me use the example of the proposed Borders bookstore.
Borders builds large stores and small ones.
Ithaca is a small city, so it will get a small Borders. We don't have the population to support a large one. That won't change. What will change is that we will lose most, if not all, of our independent booksellers. These stores order books based upon customer interests and requests.