An hour and a half
to go the last thirty miles home.
Construction brought three lanes to two, but under ordinary circumstances this is not an issue of any kind. Last night, of course, because the roads were predominantly populated by illinoisians, all of whom drove, predictably, right up to the merge, instead of merging two miles back when they were warned to do so. And then of course they got in accidents. In the hour and a half we saw a dozen non Illinois plates- the other several thousand were the problem; all these morons coming home from their Michigan cottages. Hoosiers ought to put a bounty on them.
Back to work today. I will be in a miserable mood for about three weeks, and the the Oglet gets packed off to university. That will CERTAINLY help things.
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Try NJ sometime.
Yesterday I saw a sign reading “Right lane closed, 1/2 mile”. 1/2 mile after that sign, the highway widens from two lanes to three on the right. So is the “new” lane closed? No, the right TWO lanes were closed, typical NJ signage. So everyone starts merging left. The guy in front of me, about 100 feet before the closure, decides to dart to the right lane (empty at this point), speed up, and cut in front of the car he was previously behind, gaining a full car length and thankfully not generating an impact that would have delayed us all.
There’s a reason there’s no CCW in NJ. The idiots who do things like that vote too, and they vote for gun control out of self-preservation.
Hope I can be an honorary Hoosier, then, Mark!! As to NJ, Mark D, I was in my old stomping grounds of Bergen County last Friday. Took me 2 hours to get ( the 30 miles?) from Englewood Cliffs to Newark Airport. Shore Traffic. Don’t miss Jersey, although the Shore and the Highlands are very pretty indeed.
Knox: I live in Bergen County, in the Paramus/Hackensack area.
Mark D: I lived in Westwood for 9 years, a bit off of Old Hook Road. I miss my neighbors, and the Fireplace in Paramus, and taking my kids to Point Pleasant when they were little, but I was happy to get back to the Midwest.
Jersey Shore traffic, arrhh. I grew up in Point, worked at Jenkinsons for coupla years. The old salt water pool.
Know: I live in River Edge. Wife grew up in Emerson. Used to go to church at Grace Church on Kinderkamack Rd, Westwood. Small world.
Also like the burgers at the Iron Horse.
They could solve this Illinoiance by placing a Ma Deuce (or similar) in the middle of the closed lane at the merge point, and simply lighting up every car that got that far.
I still think we do this wrong, though. The best merges I ever saw were in PA, where they had you stay in your lane to the merge point and then alternate lanes left and right.
I’m sure that would be too complicated for our neighbors from Mordor on the Lake, though.
Louisiana and a few other states put a trooper out there… Amazingly people actually follow the rules then…
I’m glad you are the journey back. (Weekend after next, Polish Buffet?) I do agree that Indiana’s State Bird is the “Orange Cone”.
Minnesota has the same rule as in Penn: Rather than wasting two lane-miles of perfectly good road, we’re supposed to “zip-merge” where the lane closes. That works pretty well when everyone grasps the concept and plays nice.