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Post by bchevy on Feb 12, 2007 19:31:43 GMT -4
They blew it tonight with the lane control......
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Post by falgar25 on Feb 12, 2007 20:29:09 GMT -4
They blew it tonight with the lane control...... Do you mean because they didn't have the third lane open Eastbound? Didn't you hear there's snow coming? If they had opened that lane, the snow may have caused a wreck! Sure, it's 7:30 and no snow, and none was forecast for the rush hour. But there is snow coming and we all need to panic right away!!!!
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Post by bchevy on Feb 12, 2007 21:30:26 GMT -4
Yeah, it was 5:00 when I hit it, the snow as coming then too. along with that red corvette!
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Post by matt on Feb 12, 2007 21:51:08 GMT -4
Hey Bchevy i was just ahead of you around 4:30-4:45 and it was starting to get ugly at the booths... no apparent reason, just no third lane. Anyone else think of what that really means? The regular 3rd lane thing is relatively new. Traffic was generally not backed up that early as I recall. One night we go back to 2 lanes and we've got a backup past the overpass? Sounds like our traffic volume has grown rather substantially. Am I remembering it wrong? I didn't think we had 3 lanes until last year or a bit before. I also didn't think we had daily backups in off season. My point being what was regular traffic and patters a couple years ago now causes backups worse than i remember (or was I more patient? ).
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Post by bchevy on Feb 13, 2007 10:46:19 GMT -4
3 lanes is fairly new as far as havinbg it all week loing for rush hour- I've even seen it in some wet weather, that used to be abig no-no..
I think it was another new boss at the bridge that changed the rules for 3 lane use, that and the Oh-So-great idea of putting 3 EZ Pass lanes on the LEFT end of the toll plaza.
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Post by mikey on Feb 13, 2007 10:49:19 GMT -4
I hit the booths at 6:30pm and there was no problem. Must have just been a spike earlier.
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Post by Frank on Feb 13, 2007 12:48:09 GMT -4
I hit it at 5:30, heavy traffic but no slowing. We need a calvert County to Cambridge bridge. It would greatly reduce traffic on the weekends, and ease congestion during the week.
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Post by RobMoore on Jul 17, 2007 16:56:28 GMT -4
Brooke - I agree that "Local Traffic Only" would be a better sign, and that the other sign is insignificant. But how are you going to enforce it? I don't know what the cops were ticketing people for, but if I happened to be one of the "pain in the neck weekend travelers", all I'd say to the cop is I had to use the "john" or wanted to get something to eat. Not that I'm chosing to specifically agree or disagree with you, Shadow, but your post dealt most with what I'm about to post. I guess I am not the kind of person who expects the government to write new laws to solve all my problems and get rid of all the things that annoy me. I'm a non-smoker, but I don't want a mandatory smoke free Maryland. I'm a kent island resident, but I don't want tickets written to keep non-residents off sideroads along route 50. I should be FREE to plan my route from point A to point B however I chose. If I CHOSE to modify that route due to traffic issues, then that is my decision to make. If 300 other people also decide to do that, then so be it. If you're willing to let the state tell you what roads you should take when you go somewhere, I'm sure they'll be willing to tax you a bit more and create a department of route planning.
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Post by Pete Richter on Jul 17, 2007 18:22:53 GMT -4
The problem with the Bay Bridge traffic is many fold. One is the fact that everyone is speeding. Picture standing in line at the movies with people hooking up in line. This is what the traffic is doing, and it causes a clogs, and accidents. A accident on the Bridge backs the traffic for miles, and causes hours of delays even on a good day....... Those of you that remember the Colt games at the Memorial Stadium know that the B.C.P.D. Traffic Division would get 65,000 people out of the area in 30 minutes. When is the last time you seen a Bridge Police, or the State Police out of their car helping the traffic to move?.........However, the main problem is the fact that the Government doesn't spend the money to improve our overall transportation system. Every big city has a traffic problem that's overwhelming for our antiquated road system. Except for the new highway construction to Mexico.....Put your seat belts on legal citizens.
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Post by bchevy on Jul 17, 2007 20:21:22 GMT -4
And the newspaper said this week that WIDENING ROUTE 50 TO THE BAY BRIDGE IS ONE OF THE TOP PRIORITY ROAD PROJECTS IN THE COUNTRY?
WHY build a bigger road when you have NOT ENOUGH BRIDGE to carry what you have now?
Does that mean the answer is already written? A 3rd span here is a done deal?
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Post by RobMoore on Jul 17, 2007 21:02:26 GMT -4
The problem with the Bay Bridge traffic is many fold. One is the fact that everyone is speeding. I think the problem is that the speed limit is 50 when most people are quite comfortable going 65 on the bridge. When you get 2 people going the speed limit next to each other on the bridge, it really jams things up behind them.
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Post by shoreman on Jul 17, 2007 22:28:57 GMT -4
It doesn't seem to help with the traffic flow when the bridge police are playing radar cop just prior to the Kent Narrows bridge and an accident or a disabled vehicle incident happens. For the life of me, I can't figure out why, during rush hour, the insist on working radar a couple of miles from the bridge. And their pretty motorcycles, where and the hect are they each day during rush hour? Obviously not around the end of each bridge. I saw a car break down last friday just as it got onto the west bound bridge. Low and behold here comes a bridge police from Kent Narrows, lights a siren trying to get through traffic. Gee, if he was where and the hect he should have been, the car would have been taken care of a lot sooner and the backup would not have been as bad. Oh and on the 65,000 cars out of Memorial Stadium in 30 minutes, if my math is correct, each car had to be going 72.22 mph as it was leaving the stadium! Hmmmmm I don' think so!!!!
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Post by Pete Richter on Jul 17, 2007 23:33:42 GMT -4
shoreman.......65,000 people not cars.
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Post by falgar25 on Jul 18, 2007 4:40:08 GMT -4
shadow1: I agree with keeping the Govt. out of my business. I pay a lot of taxes, some of which certainly go towards maintaining the roads in this state. I don't want the Govt, telling me which roads I can use and which I cannot. I especially feel this way when I'm on the other side of the bridge and stuck on 50 behind all the tourists trying to get to the beach.
On the other hand, I spent an hour one Sunday trying to get from Chester River Beach road over to Castle Marina on 18 (50 was worse)! I had an entirely different opinion that day.
But, tickets to keep non-locals off the side roads aren't the solution. What is needed is a new route, new bridge, and the really difficult ones: some consideration for others and some common sense!
Pages have already been written on this and I don't want to add pages more. I think just three seemingly simple things will help: pay attention to your driving, keep your speed up, and stay to the right except to pass! How many times has traffic been slowed because there was something exciting to see on the other bridge or in another lane? Pay attention to your driving, not to what the cops are doing on the other bridge. Why is it that traffic crawls across the bridge but then races once the road reaches solid ground? The road was just as wide three miles back; keep your speed up. And, as someone else wrote some time ago, if the space between you and the car in front of you is greater than the space between you and the car behind you then you are the slower car so move over!
Yeah, all that is too simple to solve all the problems, but it sure would make the commute more pleasant.
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Post by bchevy on Jul 18, 2007 17:08:20 GMT -4
And, as someone else wrote some time ago, if the space between you and the car in front of you is greater than the space between you and the car behind you then you are the slower car so move over! Ahh HEMM! {in my best Elvis voice}: Thank you, That you very much
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Post by speedergurl68 on Jul 18, 2007 20:23:28 GMT -4
Throw a scarf Bchevy!! Throw a scarf!! LOL
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