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Title: Photos or Street View images of Heavy Traffic
Post by: tolbs17 on February 17, 2022, 01:56:14 PM
Typical Greenville Urban Sprawl traffic. Heavy development has been clogging up towards DH Conley High School (and the school is not open for enrollment next year), so they want to clog it up even more with houses and apartments. I've sat in this SO MANY times, and it's a headache. Widening of NC-43 is scheduled for 2029.

Fire Tower and Portertown Rd widening has no start date.

https://goo.gl/maps/qM4NSTMQnMwE86DHA

A courtesy photo of Greenville Blvd traffic near Landmark St looking east taken on October 18, 2017. NCDOT has no plans to widen this stretch as of right now. And even if improvements are being done to Greenville Blvd, it's all unfunded as of right now.

(https://i.imgur.com/sPpkVt6.jpg)
Title: Re: Photos or Street View images of Heavy Traffic
Post by: SkyPesos on February 17, 2022, 02:04:22 PM
You do realize that a lot of us live in bigger cities/metros than Greenville, NC and see heavy traffic almost daily that it's not worth taking a photo of because it's such a common occurrence?
Title: Re: Photos or Street View images of Heavy Traffic
Post by: tolbs17 on February 17, 2022, 02:11:48 PM
Quote from: SkyPesos on February 17, 2022, 02:04:22 PM
You do realize that a lot of us live in bigger cities/metros than Greenville, NC and see heavy traffic almost daily that it's not worth taking a photo of because it's such a common occurrence?
Yes but sometimes it's fun to post the worst traffic of all. Frequent backups, etc.
Title: Re: Photos or Street View images of Heavy Traffic
Post by: 1995hoo on February 17, 2022, 02:14:51 PM
I find the orange sign on the right to be perhaps the most interesting part of that photo because the text is misaligned.
Title: Re: Photos or Street View images of Heavy Traffic
Post by: tolbs17 on February 17, 2022, 02:17:01 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 17, 2022, 02:14:51 PM
I find the orange sign on the right to be perhaps the most interesting part of that photo because the text is misaligned.
It's obviously a temporary construction sign and the road was being repaved during that time
Title: Re: Photos or Street View images of Heavy Traffic
Post by: 1995hoo on February 17, 2022, 02:23:53 PM
Quote from: tolbs17 on February 17, 2022, 02:17:01 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 17, 2022, 02:14:51 PM
I find the orange sign on the right to be perhaps the most interesting part of that photo because the text is misaligned.
It's obviously a temporary construction sign and the road was being repaved during that time

Duh! They could still have done a significantly better job of putting the words on the sign, though.
Title: Re: Photos or Street View images of Heavy Traffic
Post by: webny99 on February 17, 2022, 03:13:50 PM
Also... CONST?

Consternation? Constipation? Constellation?
Title: Re: Photos or Street View images of Heavy Traffic
Post by: tolbs17 on February 17, 2022, 03:24:36 PM
Lol, could be a NCDOT thing for you.
Title: Re: Photos or Street View images of Heavy Traffic
Post by: SEWIGuy on February 17, 2022, 03:38:16 PM
I have been stuck in traffic in LA, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, etc. 

But thank God I haven't been to Greenville cause that looks worse than any of them.
Title: Re: Photos or Street View images of Heavy Traffic
Post by: NE2 on February 17, 2022, 04:30:31 PM
http://www.google.com/search?q=heavy+traffic&tbm=isch
No need to keep this open.
Title: Re: Photos or Street View images of Heavy Traffic
Post by: Bruce on February 17, 2022, 05:28:22 PM
More lanes means more fun

said no one ever.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/455/19776216312_74239772a9_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/w8yh7L)
I-5 looking south from NE 92nd Street (https://flic.kr/p/w8yh7L) by SounderBruce (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sounderbruce/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/5677/21258498479_c63859b85d_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/yoxmXR)
I-5 traffic from Lakeview Blvd (https://flic.kr/p/yoxmXR) by SounderBruce (https://www.flickr.com/photos/sounderbruce/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Photos or Street View images of Heavy Traffic
Post by: PurdueBill on February 17, 2022, 09:40:05 PM
I lived in Greenville 20 years ago and was amazed at how bad the rush hour was for a town its size.  I could leave my office at ECU at 5pm and take forever to get home, or leave at 6pm and get home a lot faster.  Many large cities with freeway networks and beltways have well-known heavy traffic, but I was surprised at Greenville's spates of heavy traffic.
Title: Re: Photos or Street View images of Heavy Traffic
Post by: tolbs17 on February 17, 2022, 09:58:49 PM
Quote from: PurdueBill on February 17, 2022, 09:40:05 PM
I lived in Greenville 20 years ago and was amazed at how bad the rush hour was for a town its size.  I could leave my office at ECU at 5pm and take forever to get home, or leave at 6pm and get home a lot faster.  Many large cities with freeway networks and beltways have well-known heavy traffic, but I was surprised at Greenville's spates of heavy traffic.
ECU and Vidant are the main reasons and the state didn't build projects to properly handle future growth so now we are stuck with this mess
Title: Re: Photos or Street View images of Heavy Traffic
Post by: Alex on February 17, 2022, 10:57:40 PM
I brought this topic up way back at the beginning of the forum
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=137.0
Title: Re: Photos or Street View images of Heavy Traffic
Post by: bing101 on February 18, 2022, 02:25:25 AM
Quote from: SEWIGuy on February 17, 2022, 03:38:16 PM
I have been stuck in traffic in LA, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, etc. 

But thank God I haven't been to Greenville cause that looks worse than any of them.
True I've been stuck in San Francisco and Sacramento Traffic.
Note there is a section of I-80 from Fairfield, CA to Vacaville where it has to respond to both Bay Area and Sacramento commuters at the same time.