Your traffic sucks

[sonza68]

I'm sure you are all aware of this, but I felt the need to remind you.

The person who decided to get in an accident on the Woodow Wilson bridge yesterday morning needs a severe beating.

That is all.

[RossGTX]

:blah:

Yes... we're all well aware... ;)

[tnkgurl]

I'm sure you are all aware of this, but I felt the need to remind you.

The person who decided to get in an accident on the Woodow Wilson bridge yesterday morning needs a severe beating.

That is all.

That's nothing....you should see what traffic is like when there is a jumper on the Woodrow Wilson bridge. People get real callous and encourage that person to jump! :evil:

[skater]

Ya gotta plan your trips to avoid the Wilson Bridge. :)

In June, they're opening the outer loop span of the new bridge. It'll still be 3 lanes in each direction until 2008 when the new inner loop span opens, but there won't be as many bridge openings, and there hopefully won't be people hitting the brakes because of the metal section. Plus if there is a minor accident or breakdown, there will be room for people to pull off. It'll be interesting to see how much those improvements will help - I'm guessing regular commuters will see a difference.

[Rikenbomb]

Kelly are you one of them? :rofl:

Yeah beltway traffic blows. Thank GOD I am only on it for 5 miles. And on those 5 miles or less, I am a prisoner. :(

[tnkgurl]

Kelly are you one of them? :rofl:

Yeah beltway traffic blows. Thank GOD I am only on it for 5 miles. And on those 5 miles or less, I am a prisoner. :(

Nah. I don't have to go that way! Otherwise, I probably would!

[FastCougar]

What portion of "sea traffic" passing under the bridge that requires an opening is truely commerical? What pisses me off is some rich ass Mofo with a huge sail boat and feels to need to retire and go sailing 3 days a week. I'm sorry, but that's just B.S. that a single non-comerical person should be able to bring traffic to it's knees. With less non-commercial traffic, they could time the openings different and drop opening all together from the schedule (how I assume it works - like timed stop lights where everyone knows the schedule for when they turn green).

[skater]

The new bridge is taller to reduce openings (I think it was 360/year with the current bridge and should only be 65 or so with the new one). Also, the ships passing through there do pay a fee, I think, and they obviously can't do it during rush hour. Most of the times I've been caught at the bridge due to an opening have been at 10 p.m. Sunday night, 7 p.m. Sunday night, and once at 10:30 a.m. on a weekday. I've also seen it scheduled to be open at 3 a.m. and other hours like that. Having lived next to the bridge for almost 5 years and dealt with it almost daily, I can say the biggest problem with the bridge isn't that it opens, it's that it's 6 lanes when it should be about 18.

However, there's a lot more to the story on the new bridge being a drawbridge as well: the only commercial shipping that regularly requires the bridge to open is paper for the Washington Post's printing plant. Some argued that it would've been cheaper to buy the printing plant and get the Post to move it south of the new bridge somewhere. But for some reason, that wasn't done, and instead we spent the money on the bridge. I've seen cruise ships docked at Alexandria on occasion, so I'm wondering if Alexandria city preferred the taller bridge in the hopes of bringing in more cruise ships.