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The Fitchburg line is even worse because you have to slog through the Concord rotary if you chose to drive. I'd love to see the face on one of my Californian fr
by ng12 9y ago
The Fitchburg line is even worse because you have to slog through the Concord rotary if you chose to drive. I'd love to see the face on one of my Californian friends driving on Route 2 -- nowhere else have I ever encountered a 55mph highway that ends at a stoplight.
- ojbyrne 9y agoI'm not sure what you mean by "ends" but there are parts of the Pacific Coast Highway (between Malibu and Santa Barbara) with 55 mph speed limits and stoplights.
- sampo 9y agoOr Route 1 at least through Central New Jersey, 55 and stoplights all over.
- dabber 9y agoSame in all of New York anywhere north of the city. It's very common.
- ng12 9y agoWhat I mean is it's a 50-60 mile stretch of highway that unceremoniously stops at a traffic light with no highway on the other side. It's a very weird thing.
- mng2 9y agoI don't mean to be contrarian but since there is a perfect counterexample near where I live... https://goo.gl/maps/vfpo5KGRqhs https://goo.gl/maps/vfpo5KGRqhs
- jcranmer 9y agoBreezewood, PA is pretty infamous: I-70 has a stoplight with US-30, where you turn right, go through a second stoplight, turn right again, and then get back on I-70. It and the I-78 approach to the Holland Tunnel are the only two places where the interstate has a traffic light, although the road is 35mph immediately in front of it in PA (I don't know what the speed limit of the NJ road is). Freeways ending in stoplights are actually fairly common, although they usually have lots of advance warning saying "FREEWAY ENDS." 50mph and 55mph roads having stoplights on them aren't particularly uncommon, particularly in rural areas.
- smoyer 9y agoI70 joins I76 (the Pennsylvania turnpike) in Breezewood, so traffic would be slowed at the toll-booths even if a proper intersection was built. I suspect that there was some political wrangling that resulted in the US30 transition though - the truck-stops, restaurants and tourist-traps are loving it!
- ng12 9y ago> 50mph and 55mph roads having stoplights on them aren't particularly uncommon, particularly in rural areas. Sure, but this is a major artery connecting several residential hubs to the regional capital.
- Mountain_Skies 9y agoGeorgia 400 is a limited access highway with a 65 mph speed limit that retains that speed limit after turning into a traffic light controlled motorway.
- Svip 9y agoI hate to be pedantic, but that is not what a motorway is. It cannot, by definition, be traffic light controlled (except the on-ramps).
- cjslep 9y agoTake 55 south to Newport Beach during morning Rush hour.
- pjc50 9y agoThere's a surprising number of UK A-roads that are 70mph up to a traffic light. There's usually a lot of signage warning you about it.
- CalRobert 9y agoIt wasn't that long ago that one of the main north-south roads in California had a stop light on it. http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM9N2W_Last_Stop_Light_on_99_Livingston_CA http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM9N2W_Last_Stop_Light_on...
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoMost of your Californian friends would need to pack extra underwear for the first few weeks of commuting in MA.
- jpbutler 9y agoI would love for the powers that be to fix Route 2. The neighborhood roads in Concord and Acton are almost unusable at rush hour from Waze, etc. routing around Route 2. It has gotten progressively (and noticably) worse over the past three years. They ended up having to redo the school bus schedules to accommodate the new traffic levels.