Any roads closed due to COVID-19?

[ftballfan]

Yet another COVID-19 thread, but this one is road-related.

I know some toll roads are going (or have gone) cashless, but have any roads closed completely (besides border crossings) due to COVID-19? For example, are the roads going through the WDW and Universal properties closed? I am wondering because in Universal's case, Universal Blvd bisects the property but is a through road that connects to public roads on both ends of the Universal property (Vineland Rd on the north end and I-4/International Dr on the south end)

[ErmineNotyours]

Right now Washington's governor is using road usage statistics to support the supposition that we're not being socially distant enough.  If you go for a drive and don't get out of your car near others, what's the harm?

[bandit957]

Right now Washington's governor is using road usage statistics to support the supposition that we're not being socially distant enough.  If you go for a drive and don't get out of your car near others, what's the harm?

Maybe it's like how when you drive into a fart, you can smell it.

[Max Rockatansky]

A whole bunch of Park Service Roads just closed in California.  Some notable highways like the Wawona Road and Generals Highway are closed to public use.  No word on CA 190 thus far through Death Valley or even handy cut-offs like Pinto Basin Road. 

[3467]

We went into Shelter in Place in IllInois . Roads will remain open Tollway  is I pass only. But they will take a pic of non I pass plates and send bill. Some construction started like 255 and 55 not clear what continues.
He seems happy about decline . Mass transit will run weekend schedule. Amtrak also reducing schedule. Lack of demand . Chicago roads are empty . You can look on Travel Midwest.

[vdeane]

Right now Washington's governor is using road usage statistics to support the supposition that we're not being socially distant enough.  If you go for a drive and don't get out of your car near others, what's the harm?

How many people do that, though?  Most people are driving to get somewhere, not to see the road.  Unless some people have started driving for the sake of seeing something that isn't their house, it's pretty much just us.

[Brandon]

We went into Shelter in Place in IllInois . Roads will remain open Tollway  is I pass only. But they will take a pic of non I pass plates and send bill. Some construction started like 255 and 55 not clear what continues.
He seems happy about decline . Mass transit will run weekend schedule. Amtrak also reducing schedule. Lack of demand . Chicago roads are empty . You can look on Travel Midwest.

ISTHA does not send bills.  You have to pay online within 7 days.

[NE2]

Disney's roads are not closed.

[webny99]

Roads you will miss due to COVID-19:

For me, the Thruway between Rochester and Buffalo.
Ironic, I know, given all my complaining about it, but I used to use it all the time and now I won't be for at least a little while.

[Max Rockatansky]

Roads you will miss due to COVID-19:

For me, the Thruway between Rochester and Buffalo.
Ironic, I know, given all my complaining about it, but I used to use it all the time and now I won't be for at least a little while.

Pretty much all the NPS roads I described above.  Many of them were fun drives unto themselves.  As far as I know the closure seen in California hasn't translated over to neighboring states. 

[ftballfan]

We went into Shelter in Place in IllInois . Roads will remain open Tollway  is I pass only. But they will take a pic of non I pass plates and send bill. Some construction started like 255 and 55 not clear what continues.
He seems happy about decline . Mass transit will run weekend schedule. Amtrak also reducing schedule. Lack of demand . Chicago roads are empty . You can look on Travel Midwest.

ISTHA does not send bills.  You have to pay online within 7 days.

I accidentally used an I-Pass only lane last year on my way to a job interview. I realized my mistake and I paid online as soon as I got back home.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Key West is going into lockdown with non-residents banned, so I assume US 1 will be closed to non-residents possibly with some kind of staffed checkpoint.

[RobbieL2415]

US 158 and US 64 are closed at the Dare County border.  No one in or out.  Checkpoints included.  These are by far the most extreme measures I've heard of anywhere in North America.

The CBBTs Driver Assistance program is cancelled until further notice.

Cape May-Lewes ferrry schedules have been shortened to two round-trips.  No pedestrians.  Only vehicles.

[Max Rockatansky]

Key West is going into lockdown with non-residents banned, so I assume US 1 will be closed to non-residents possibly with some kind of staffed checkpoint.

Monroe County usually gives you a resident card or essential personnel badge.  I had to get one a couple years back when I ran security at a place in Key West in prep for a hurricane.  It's really easy to turn people around at Florida City at the split between US 1 and Card Sound Road.

[bandit957]

Some of these places are islands.

[hbelkins]

Roads you will miss due to COVID-19:

Are roads older than 70 or with underlying pavement conditions more susceptible?

[GCrites]

Right now Washington's governor is using road usage statistics to support the supposition that we're not being socially distant enough.  If you go for a drive and don't get out of your car near others, what's the harm?

Maybe it's like how when you drive into a fart, you can smell it.

I don't think this has ever happened to me. They must have wound up in the slipstream around the car or sucked into the engine.

[Terry Shea]

Right now Washington's governor is using road usage statistics to support the supposition that we're not being socially distant enough.  If you go for a drive and don't get out of your car near others, what's the harm?

Control freaks want to control everything.

[rickmastfan67]

PennDOT has closed the I-279/I-579 HOV lanes because of Covid-19.
https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/03/16/hov-lanes-closing-in-pittsburgh-and-ross-township/

[wxfree]

Roads you will miss due to COVID-19:

Are roads older than 70 or with underlying pavement conditions more susceptible?

Possibly.  I've heard that the Old Town Road may be subject to closure, with a detour along the New Town Road, which is much younger and has better overall pavement conditions.

[ftballfan]

US 158 and US 64 are closed at the Dare County border.  No one in or out.  Checkpoints included.  These are by far the most extreme measures I've heard of anywhere in North America.

What about US-264? (However, that is only on the mainland part of Dare County and meets US-64 before crossing over to Kill Devil Hills).
Two things I am assuming (unless the US-158 checkpoints are past the Corolla turnoff):
1. Corolla residents are stuck as they're not in Dare County, but the only road connecting to it goes through Dare County.
2. Residents in southern mainland Currituck County (along US-158) currently have a much longer drive to do shopping as instead of being able to go to Walmart/Home Depot/Food Lion/Walgreens just after 158 crosses into Dare County and before (or at in the case of Walgreens) the Corolla turnoff, they would have to go all the way to either Elizabeth City or into Virginia to do selective shopping (there is a Food Lion in Grandy)
I'm assuming residents or those that live in a different county but work in Dare County (and vice versa) are allowed through.

[sprjus4]

^

Those living on the Corolla side of Currituck County are allowed to go through Dare County.

Additionally, those living outside of Dare County but working in the county are also permitted.

[1995hoo]

The National Park Service closed several roads near the Tidal Basin in DC this weekend because too many people were coming to see the cherry trees. (We have the same type of tree in our backyard. Less spectacular setting. Much easier commute.)

[SectorZ]

Massachusetts the only thing that has changed that I know of is not HOV/Zipper lane on the Southeast Expressway stretch of I-93. Clearly no need for it right now, which is ironic given the highway is a mess normally most times of the day now.

[mgk920]

Oodles of roads are closed at the Belgium/Netherlands border.  These roads have been unimpeded since controls at that border were removed in the 1960s.

Mike