SnowWhitesBox OP t1_jd9wq9c wrote on March 22, 2023 at 9:44 PM

Reply to comment by WeetWoo97 in Main Street paving between 15th and 25th by SnowWhitesBox

Good luck man. It definitely doesn’t help the same geniuses that thought this would be a good idea also have Cary Street closed between 15th and 18th.

Again, not a traffic planner, but if I didn’t know any better I would expect all the official documents associated with this to be written in crayon.

-B001- t1_jdbgo3p wrote on March 23, 2023 at 4:51 AM

That's one of the biggest problems I've had w/ roadwork downtown -- multiple routes get closed at the same time, so that it causes backups. Add that to the lanes closed for construction zones, and then Bank Street being closed, it really is miserable driving down there now!

BureauOfBureaucrats t1_jdaj6e8 wrote on March 23, 2023 at 12:21 AM

I think our traffic planners have room temperature IQs.

SnowWhitesBox OP t1_jdaxjwo wrote on March 23, 2023 at 2:05 AM

Tend to agree, especially after hearing about how the traffic lights are being retimed. I don’t know if they have done the ones on Main yet downtown going into VCU but uhhh they could be done better.

And just in response to your other comment, I also ran into a dead end at 15th street, went right and took half an hour to get down to Dock and take a left. Absolute madhouse. Glad I have the opportunity to WFH the rest of this week, because I am not putting up with that again

BureauOfBureaucrats t1_jdaydz0 wrote on March 23, 2023 at 2:12 AM

I’m a Rideshare driver and was taking someone to the train station when I was there. Customer had to bail out early at 14th and walk that last block or miss her train.

I joined with the sidewalk drivers to make an illegal uturn and got the hell out. I’m basically a “Ned Flanders” of obeying traffic laws 99% of the time, but I was not fucking with that shit. I went straight home.