The traffic for I-95/128.
All the (red) traffic lights.
The volume of trucks.
I have to pass through three traffic signals at the interchange that are not coordinated with each other just to get on SB I-71.
The traffic.
The pavement quality.
The high volumes of traffic driving on the shoulders.
The lack of turning lanes.
The lack of investment.
That it's boring.
That I live where I do.
All the red lights and lack of signal coordination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6823U0XJpDo
That it's too short.
The traffic light second closest to my house. It doesn't matter if I'm coming north, south, east or west every time I come up to the stupid light it's always turning red. I might make the light 2 times out of 10. About a half mile away from that light I don't like that there's no left turn arrow for the left turn lanes at a street that has 30,000 vehicles a day and three lanes to cross over.
That would be the traffic signal a block from my home. It's in 24-hour operation but there are pavement sensors on the cross street so a green light phase should trigger only when there is a vehicle on the cross street. The street was torn up and repaved in 2019, but the sensor loop on that leg was never replaced. That's like a broken sensor wire and it tells the controller there is constant traffic on the cross street, which triggers a maximum-length green light phase for the cross street every cycle, all day and night. I just love sitting at that red light at midnight with no traffic around for miles. I've reported it several times to the city but no fix yet.
Deterioration of pavement/bridges and outdated intersections that could use new synchronized traffic lights
For US-29 in Gainesville it would be the annoying 3rd lane drop immediately south (west) of the Linton Hall Road/VA-55 interchange. IMO it is a very dangerous situation with cars coming from Linton Hall Road/VA-55 often having to merge over two lanes in heavy traffic. Surprised that there's not an insane amount of accidents. At the very least, that third lane should go to the Somerset Crossing Drive light. Ideally it would go all the way to Warrenton.
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For US-29 in Gainesville it would be the annoying 3rd lane drop immediately south (west) of the Linton Hall Road/VA-55 interchange. IMO it is a very dangerous situation with cars coming from Linton Hall Road/VA-55 often having to merge over two lanes in heavy traffic. Surprised that there's not an insane amount of accidents. At the very least, that third lane should go to the Somerset Crossing Drive light. Ideally it would go all the way to Warrenton.
Ideally it would be a freeway all the way to Warrenton.
If it's in reference to the nearest state highway, the CA 87 freeway, it would be the unevenness of the pavement NB at the I-280 interchange, coupled with the often harrowing merge north of there where the 2-lane C/D road merges with the 3-lane NB main lanes -- and the leftmost C/D lane "zippers" with the rightmost primary lane. Unfortunately, there's often a marked disparity of speeds regarding traffic merging from the C/D lane (considerably slower), so the disruption is consistent until things clear out after the Taylor Street interchange.
A woman.
Raise your hand if the road you've been on the most is a road you have never resided on.
I may have lived at my current residence for longer than any previous residence, therefore I may assume the street outside my house is the road I've been on the most.
What do I dislike about it? It's that I live between two uncontrolled intersections, yet a lot of people seem to think my street gets the right of way, no matter who arrives at the intersection first or who is on the right. Why do I dislike that? Well, for two reasons: (1) People drive too fast down my street, I assume because they seem to think all cross traffic must stop for them; (2) When I stop at one of those uncontrolled intersections to let the person approaching on my right go first, that other driver almost always stops, stares at me for a few seconds, and then waves for me to go first–rather than just going first and moving on with life.
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A woman.
Was her car blocking the road?
I assume she takes a walk down his street, and he just hates her guts for some reason.
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A woman.
Was her car blocking the road?
I assume she takes a walk down his street, and he just hates her guts for some reason.
He hates a lot of things.
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Quote from: kphoger on May 12, 2021, 05:17:05 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on May 12, 2021, 05:03:22 PM
Quote from: renegade on May 12, 2021, 05:02:19 PM
A woman.
Was her car blocking the road?
I assume she takes a walk down his street, and he just hates her guts for some reason.
He hates a lot of things.
No. Just nosy people who ask far too many irrelevant questions.
Drivers can't handle double-left turn lanes at all. Or a green arrow.
for me, its the lack of understanding that the highway i live on is not just a tourist road.
i'm blessed to live in the mountains, but it seems like i always get stuck behind one of those guys/girls who hits the brakes for every curve (its quite easy to drive this road without touching the brakes), and wants to plod along at 30mph.
yeah, its a tourist road, but its also a working thru state highway, and many people who drive it are commuting to work, etc, and just want to get home. or to work. there's few passing zones on the section that i drive, and traffic is usually busy enough to make a pass impossible, or dicey at best. my camry can get angry quick if i put my foot in it, but i don't like to drive like that. plus there's limits to its anger.
Quote from: kphoger on May 12, 2021, 05:16:32 PM
Raise your hand if the road you've been on the most is a road you have never resided on.
Obviously nobody's counting, but it's very plausible. I moved to the east side of Norman to the east side in 2010. I lived in an apartment from 2010—2012, a duplex for part of 2012, a rental house from 2013 to 2017, and a house I own from 2017 to present. All of these are on different streets, but the whole time my work was to the west of Norman, which meant that my commute consisted of "find the best path to Highway 9, then take that in to work". Each day that I worked, I was adding one trip to the street that I lived on and one to Highway 9. Since the street that I lived on changed but Highway 9 didn't, each time I moved, it had a large head start in front of my new home street.
Add to the fact that Highway 9 has a concurrency with Interstate 35 over a bridge, and using that bridge was a common occurrence before I moved to Norman, and I'd be surprised if that I-35/SH-9 bridge I've never lived on
wasn't my most-traveled route.
Also, to get relentlessly pedantic, I live on a corner lot and my driveway doesn't let out onto the street my house faces, which my address is on. So despite living on the same street for four years, I've only driven on the street I live on a handful of times.
The "road I've been on the most" would be neighborhood streets, so I will instead use the nearest arterial road for my answer.
Aggressive drivers.
People going straight from left-turn-only lanes.
People who drive in the center lane or the left lane but who want to turn right and expect everyone else to know that and to get out of their way.
People who use the right-turn-only lane to try to cut the line at the red light to go straight ahead.
People who want to speed everywhere else but for some reason want to go 35 mph in a 45-mph zone on this road.
People with no lane discipline when turning at lights with dual turn lanes.
Lack of crosswalks on two sides of the largest intersection.
An annoying manhole cover I always try to avoid.
Potholes at the intersection with the Beltway interchange.
One left-turn lane that isn't long enough for the large trucks that use it to reach an industrial area, so they stick out into thru traffic.
An unnecessary left-turn lane that duplicates a right-side loop ramp; the resulting green arrow reduces green time for thru traffic coming the other way.
Quote from: 1995hoo on May 20, 2021, 03:51:25 PM
The "road I've been on the most" would be neighborhood streets, so I will instead use the nearest arterial road for my answer.
Aggressive drivers.
People going straight from left-turn-only lanes.
People who drive in the center lane or the left lane but who want to turn right and expect everyone else to know that and to get out of their way.
People who use the right-turn-only lane to try to cut the line at the red light to go straight ahead.
People who want to speed everywhere else but for some reason want to go 35 mph in a 45-mph zone on this road.
People with no lane discipline when turning at lights with dual turn lanes.
Lack of crosswalks on two sides of the largest intersection.
An annoying manhole cover I always try to avoid.
Potholes at the intersection with the Beltway interchange.
One left-turn lane that isn't long enough for the large trucks that use it to reach an industrial area, so they stick out into thru traffic.
An unnecessary left-turn lane that duplicates a right-side loop ramp; the resulting green arrow reduces green time for thru traffic coming the other way.
If we're going to define "road" to include one's own street, then the overriding issue is that the street gets used as access to the local school complex, including (a) a public middle school (b) a public high school, and (c) a K-12 Christian school immediately adjacent to (a) and (b). All three seem to have a high number of "helicopter parents" who take their kids to school in the morning and pick them up in the afternoon; but I live one house away from where my street intersects a major arterial, and these parents always seem to be in a rush and wheel around the corner like it's the "bus stop" turn at Sonoma Raceway -- if I have occasion to park on the street in front of my residence, getting out on the drivers' side can be a harrowing experience; I've almost had my ass (and my car door) handed to me more than once by a driver screeching around the corner at 40-45 (arterial speed limit is 35 and the side street is 25 -- yeah, right!). SUV's seem to be the worst offenders, although Teslas are starting to make their mark in this regard. Had about 9 months of break when the schools were shut down in favor of home online classes -- but they reopened for the spring quarter, so the speed parade continues. The city has started working on the street (repaving), so if that becomes an obstacle and the offenders take an alternate route, another short reprieve is in sight. But since it's been announced that most middle/high school students will be platooned in school during summer months to make up for lost time (particularly the AP types, who make up a big percentage of the local school cohort), the return of the speedway will likely continue throughout the summer (which, prior to 2020, was a decided break in the routine). It's gonna be fun............... :ded:
I will use the roads I use to get to work. I would be tempted to say lack of scenery, as I go through the industrial area of Mason City and then it's flat once I leave Mason City and go to Clear Lake. However, the real problem is sometimes there are trains at the one crossing, and they block traffic for seemingly longer than should be permitted. Not to mention trains have a 25 mph limit in Mason City. However, CP has a siding immediately east of the one crossing I use and they love to use it for storage and it alters traffic for too long. The only other issue I have is that on SW 19th Street, they have a bridge where the speed limit is 30 while the rest of the urbanized part of the road is 35.