Seems daft to me

Katie Chapman at the Dom Post reports:

Impatient drivers won't be able to zoom past traffic queues by using passing lanes these holidays.

The Transport Agency is preparing to close some passing lanes in the region to keep traffic moving as much as possible.

Getting rid of extra lanes to speed up traffic seems daft to me.

But it seems the reason is we are so at merging traffic back together, which probably is true.