Maryland “Freak State” PING!
There is an easy solution for drivers: avoid 895 and take 95.
On March 17, 1930, construction of the Empire State Building began. Under the direction of architects Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates, the framework rose 4 ½ stories per week. On May 1, 1931 President Hoover presses a button in Washington, D.C. officially opening and turning on the Empire State Building's lights.
The devolution of our great nation continues.
Anyone like to bet on whether this will be way over budget and take a whole lot longer than projected?
3 yrs??? Ha ha, if anyone believes that and the “estimated budget”....
Last night I drove by the Tacoma Dome in Western WA.... gotta be 20 yrs now of dirt turning.... And don’t get me started on Snoqualmie Pass, Interstate 90.
I am not sure traffic around Baltimore and DC can get any worse.
We live 30 miles north of Baltimore. One of our kids lives south. He’s home convalescing after getting four wisdom teeth yanked today. I just told him about the construction and he said “see you in three years.”
WUT! I’ll bet traffic was a breeze before this right? Can’t say since I haven’t been to MD since 1947. Came close a couple of times.
I’ve lived in Queens for 15 years and there has never been a moment when the Van Wyck Expressway has NOT been under construction. Funny, even on nice days you barely see any construction workers working. Ditto a bit closer to home; there is a street which includes a bridge over a park which has been under construction for like a year, horribly congesting traffic which depends on that stretch of road for access to 3 major highways. And what is the point of this latter construction? I couldn’t figure it out until quite recently, what with the barriers depriving us of lanes and the bumper to bumper chronic congestion. It seems that they have now permanently removed a much-needed car lane and widened the sidewalk across the bridge to about FIFTEEN FEET wide. Anyone reading this by now has dropped to the floor from freak-out, right? Moreover, in good ol’ DeBlASSio fashion, they have not painted the curb of this intrusion into the driving lanes with reflective paint so that if you are unfamiliar with the area, it would be quite easy to drive up onto the wide sidewalk at night, as the lanes and such are barely visible. Under DeBlASSio, we now also have the rightmost lanes on most major thoroughfares painted red and reserved exclusively for buses, forcing major congestion upon the 2 remaining lanes. If that were not enough, several left turn lanes in my area have now been eliminated; if you don’t approach the store you want by an entirely different route, you are forced to drive past the street where you used to simply be able to turn left and then hit the store, continue on without turning for several long blocks, and THEN execute a U-turn to approach the street you wanted to turn left on, and make a RIGHT turn. INSANE!!!!
Three years sounds good for me. Highway 34 in Colorado has taken over 5 years to fix 27 miles at a cost of over $330,000,000.
Sounds like an improvement long term, but short term what a nightmare. That viaduct has no shoulders for example.