This particular comparison isn't particularly bad, but a number of times on UrbanMSP I've seen the "a street was closed here" or "a lane was removed here" logic stretched out to the point where the person appears to be arguing that because a lane was closed once, somewhere, and traffic didn't become a problem, that you can close all lanes, everywhere, and traffic wouldn't become a problem. Pointing out exactly why (with numbers) that's silly isn't really in my department, but maybe one of our more technical writers can take a stab at it.