“Am I crazy or what?”
Probably not…
In NJ, when high traffic volume called for the addition of more lanes to the Garden State Parkway, instead of widening the road, the “solution” was to narrow the lanes to the 11 foot Federal minimum–and to eliminate the shoulder in some areas–in order to accommodate an extra lane.
Those lanes are uncomfortably narrow, and I try to avoid the areas where the shoulder has been eliminated. One broken-down car inevitably leads to huge traffic backups, and as a result of the narrow lanes, even more accidents.