The most frustrating thing about 24 is that both ends have the same problem, which is that the amount of lanes suddenly drops as the road ends, and in both cases it would be trivially easy to fix. 24e->78e you have 3 lanes that suddenly drop to 2. 24w->287n you have 3 lanes that suddenly drops to 1.

The 24e->78e spot causes a multi mile long traffic jam every day for several hours. They literally could make it 3 lanes by changing where the paint is on a quarter mile stretch of the road. Seriously, go look at it on google maps. The road is ALREADY WIDE ENOUGH that they could add a third lane by just painting it on there. Wtf.

As bad as that spot is, the 24w->287n merge has been a problem for literally 30 years. Most of that ramp is also wide enough to be 2 lanes on its own and the rest of the ramp is surrounded by forest.