Posted on 05/24/2021 10:22:10 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
PING!
Do they actually think this will slow people down below 100mph?
“But officer, the sign said ‘65 MPH.’”
Officer: “It clearly states ‘35 MPH,’ as you can see.”
Mebbe they’ll drop to 90 or 95.
so the legislature now won’t be setting legal speed limits, a computer will be doing it and it can change during the day?
That section of 95 has sudden back-ups with stop-and-go traffic which can stretch for miles. There is usually no apparent cause for them, like an accident, road work, or a breakdown. They just seem to perpetuate and amplify spontaneously as traffic coils and uncoils. It may be that adjusting the traffic flow approaching one of theses clogs will help. I think that’s what they are trying to do.
The facial recognition camera presents different speeds for different colored drivers.
Depends on your ‘privilege’.
I drive that several times per month going between Pennsylvania and North Carolina. .
Worst traffic every time. Generally, southbound is worse..
An excellent idea.
There is no future in 75 MPH to a traffic jam.
Extend the HOV lanes all the way to Richmond I-295. DUH!!!
Like I need another reason to avoid I-95!
I’d just widen I-95 to at least 4 free lanes in each direction between Woodbridge and I-295. Of course, thanks to the privately run express lanes in the highway’s median, VDOT would have to pay a princely sum to Transurban just to do so, due to the “non-compete” clause.
The cause is usually some moron trying to merge onto the highway at 35MPH.
Why? I-95 was widened to 3 lanes in each direction in 1985 and that’s good enough by Virginia standards.
It depends on what the meaning of “Virginia Standards” is.
Apologies to Slick Willie.
The Mid Atlantic region has long needed a bypass of Interstate 95 through Baltimore and Washington. US 301 would make a good bypass if upgraded to freeway standards from the Delaware Maryland line to I 95 at Fredericksburg, Virginia. US 13 south of Dover, Delaware should be upgraded to a freeway to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. There is a plan for an Interstate 87 to run from Raleigh to Norfolk. If the two projects were linked and connected with tolled Delaware 1, that would serve as a bypass running from Wilmington, Delaware to Raleigh.
“Virginia Standards” = “We’re just glad the road is paved”
It will probably never happen.
The fine state of Virginia has been talking about widening I-81 for 20 years. Closer to home, talking about widening VA 28 for as long.
Meanwhile, they apparently don’t even have the money or manpower to trim vegetation from street signs or fill potholes or fix broken traffic signals.
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