I-95 rant

[Cat]

Ok, yes, 95 can be a bitch (I hate it) but if you're too nervous to drive over 50 in perfect road conditions, please take rte 1, you'll get to the same place.

Please stop being a "true new englander" and use your turn signal.

the three "exit only" signs are not there for decoration. if you don't want that exit, merge over (and not at the last second...there was plenty of time before)

there is no reason to cut me off to get to your exit. just wait a mile or so, there will be another exit.

the Q has no shoulder....please drive safely there.

there's more rants, but this is a start

[Kogarashi]

Amen, sister.

Good grief, the Q scares me. ::shudder::

[sarasquirrel]

what i think is worse than driving 95, driving 91 south into new haven and trying to get on 95 LOL

omg it sucks everytime.

[AccountingDrone]

what i think is worse than driving 95, driving 91 south into new haven and trying to get on 95 LOL

omg it sucks everytime.

Coming down 95 from Groton and trying to get to the feeder into downtown to get to Y-NH hospital... to make it in time for an 8 am doctors appointment.

When I was doing the surgical shuffle this past year mrDrone and I took to staying at the hotel close by just so we didnt have to dick around with traffic. On the other hand, as a bonus we discovered that the pizza place by Hotel New Haven makes phenomenal pepperoni pizza ... properly thin crust, full fat mozzarella and top quality pepperoni, not the BJs basement grade crap ingredients that most pizzarias seem to buy.

[Kogarashi]

I generally avoid where 91 and 95 meet, so I have few stories from there. I hated it, though, when I had to commute to work while pregnant. It involved going from 91 to 95 North, which meant crossing the two 95 South lanes on 91 in order to get to my exit. Nine times out of ten, those two lanes were backed up well beyond where I got on the highway, requiring me to try to merge across two lanes of near-stopped traffic. With no one willing to let me in, and everyone behind me wanting to go faster to get to their exits. Ugh.

And then there was the night it took two hours to get home, when it should've taken twenty minutes. Apparently there was some trouble with the Q Bridge (I heard it had a hole, but it's been three years now and I can't find it online anywhere), requiring two of the three lanes to close. Right around rush hour, too, meaning that traffic was well and truly screwed by the time I got on at 8pm. I actually had to drive a good chunk of that time in the breakdown lane because no one was letting all the people in the breakdown lane merge in. It didn't help matters that I was 7 months pregnant at the time, and tired from a long workday.

[trunks2k]

Ok, yes, 95 can be a bitch (I hate it) but if you're too nervous to drive over 50 in perfect road conditions, please take rte 1, you'll get to the same place.

There's one guy who drives on 76 in Philadelphia, who drives at most 45 MPH that is until he realizes he's going that speed and slams on his breaks. If anyone lives in Philly and wonders why the interchange at 76 West and City Ave gets so backed up in the morning - it's because of this guy. He enters on a left hand onramp going, maybe 20 mph while all the cars on the highway are going 60. This causes everyone to slam on their breaks and start the bottleneck. Then he trots along in the left lane doing 30 as he tries to get right, which he can't do because he's going too slow to make the lane change, which makes the backup even worse. Once that backup starts, there's no stopping it until rush hour is over. I've seriously given thought to getting his license plate number and calling the police. He's going to cause an accident and shouldn't be driving on the highway.

[Cat]

I heard a rumor that the guy who designed the spot where 91 and 95 meet died in an accident there.

[Ben_Who]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I'll probably say it next when I'm caught behind someone doing this.

If the weather is so bad that you have no confidence in your ability to drive above 25 MPH on the highway, you really have no business being on the road and should stay home. I don't care that it's Thanksgiving, you and your convoy are forming a moving roadblock that is backing up 200 miles of traffic behind you. I appreciate that the poor traveling conditions demand slower travelers - hell, even the blinking 45 MPH signs are lit up - but you are obviously over your depth.

Go home, call whatever family members are reheating the turkey, and tell them that you won't be able to make it this year and that you'll see them on the weekend or something. Apologize politely. You're visiting family, not making the Kessel Run. The world will not cave in if you don't visit your family on this particular accident of the calendar.

Seriously. Braver drivers than I are pulling out around you, into the breakdown lane, to get past you. I myself am going to pull off at the next on-ramp and try to get around you by driving up route 1 to the next exit, provided I don't just get even more entangled in your rolling traffic jam. You're at risk and you're putting everyone behind you at risk. Stay home. Visit on the weekend and eat leftovers. Turkey's better the next day anyway.

Love, Who?