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Author Topic: Traffic #%&@  (Read 20901 times)

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Re: Traffic #%&@
« Reply #100 on: June 03, 2009, 08:55:22 PM »

Standard 5:10pm weekday Dallas traffic.
Nothing as cool as Moscow, I'm afraid.

IH 635 eastbound at Tollway


Tollway southbound. Its solidly backed up for about 20 miles in each direction from 4:45pm to 6:45pm
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Re: Traffic #%&@
« Reply #101 on: June 03, 2009, 09:03:24 PM »


Well it sounds like they are effective in Europe. VMS here generally display nothing, which is why I like to refer to them as WOM (wastes of moment). Some areas however do a good job; Texas for instance effectively uses travel times and the like to advise of congestion. Other areas do not inform motorists of congestion until they are already in the thick of it, which through my travels happens far to often.

for all else that's broken about LA's freeway system, the VMS with times to various destinations is quite good. 
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Re: Traffic #%&@
« Reply #102 on: June 03, 2009, 10:33:16 PM »

Just found this jam up shot on Route 99 in Massachusetts.  Oh the tale of two directions...
Bet ya anything the Artery was closed southbound.
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Re: Traffic #%&@
« Reply #103 on: June 06, 2009, 06:34:17 AM »

I was hauling through Germany yesterday, and I drove north on the A7 between Würzburg and Kassel, and suddenly there were trucks all over the Autobahn, braking hard, and I had to wait for 20 minutes before traffic began moving again.

This accident happened just half a mile ahead of me. There was another car in the left barrier with similar damage. Quite weird.

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Re: Traffic #%&@
« Reply #104 on: June 30, 2009, 01:13:34 PM »

Nope, no ranting today!  :clap:

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Re: Traffic #%&@
« Reply #105 on: July 08, 2009, 03:25:15 PM »

I-95 South in Fairfax County, VA looking from I-95 North(between US 1(Exit 161) and SR 642(Exit 163).  VDOT is currently adding a fourth regular lane in both directions here though between VA 123(Exit 160) and SR 7100(Exit 166) 
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Re: Traffic #%&@
« Reply #106 on: July 09, 2009, 04:48:06 PM »

The official bottleneck of Hanover County.  I-95 NB going down to 3 lanes(6 in both directions) north of SR 656/Sliding Hill Rd 
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Re: Traffic #%&@
« Reply #107 on: July 09, 2009, 09:21:30 PM »

Here's a blast from the past.



Took this in May '05 in Charlotte on I-77 after leaving the Food Lion Speed Street.  At this moment, I-77 is 4 lanes (3 + 1HOV; and yes I was with the family so I wasn't breaking the HOV Law) and just past the future I-485 (at that time since it wasn't open yet) exit, it went from 4 to 2 LANES!!  That was a massive backup there.  Since then, they've extended one of the lanes farther up to the next exit (#23; Gilead Rd), but you still have to deal with the new traffic from I-485.

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Re: Traffic #%&@
« Reply #108 on: July 12, 2009, 06:45:27 PM »


City of Del Rio International Bridge, i was on there for an hour :banghead:
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Re: Traffic #%&@
« Reply #109 on: July 12, 2009, 11:25:47 PM »

More I-95 NB congestion from last Sunday 
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« Reply #110 on: July 12, 2009, 11:52:05 PM »

Even more I-95 NB congestion back south of SR 802(Lewistown Rd) 
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« Reply #111 on: July 13, 2009, 12:01:50 AM »

I must get REALLY lucky not to hit that mess going to/from NC. The reality is I-95 in VA needs 8 lanes from I-295 to Fredericksburg and then 10-12 lanes from there to the beltway (3-2-2-3 or 3-3-3-3). None of that half-assed reversible HOV/HOT crap. I suppose I'm lucky I live in a state where I-95 is a toll road and was readily expanded and has decent alternates.
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« Reply #112 on: July 31, 2009, 08:37:51 PM »

I must get REALLY lucky not to hit that mess going to/from NC. The reality is I-95 in VA needs 8 lanes from I-295 to Fredericksburg and then 10-12 lanes from there to the beltway (3-2-2-3 or 3-3-3-3). None of that half-assed reversible HOV/HOT crap. I suppose I'm lucky I live in a state where I-95 is a toll road and was readily expanded and has decent alternates.
  Normally its not that bad south of Fredericksburg except for the fact that it was a holiday weekend and probably the same for most weekends in general.  VDOT doesn't have money though to widen I-95 here though currently :-/  Anyway some US 501 NB congestion just outside of Aynor, SC NW of Conway 
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