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Left turns from Falmouth street can stall traffic
Washington-area drivers throttle back as gas prices reach 'tipping point,' AAA says
Date published: 4/7/2008
GAS IS MORE expensive, but are we driving less? I am not, unfortunately. But a surprising number of people in the Washington area say they have scaled back on getting behind the wheel. Roughly half of Maryland motorists surveyed by AAA Mid-Atlantic--54 percent--say they are driving less because of higher fuel costs. And 35 percent of Washington metro-area motorists are driving less. AAA calls the recent gas prices a "tipping point" for drivers. Also, 12 percent of Washington metro residents say they are using transit more. And 7 percent have switched to a more fuel-efficient car. Dear Kelly: At the north end of West Cambridge Street in Stafford, where it intersects with U.S. 1 just before the Falmouth Bridge, there is a small divider in the middle of the road with a stop sign on it. To go north on U.S. 1, drivers must wait for a break in northbound and southbound traffic in order to make a left turn. The required break in traffic occurs at 3 a.m. most days. While the majority of local drivers know not to try to get onto U.S. 1 northbound from this point, there is the inevitable car with Maryland license plates that makes its way to the top of the hill and then, unable to get across, just sits at this point interminably, forcing drivers behind him to try to pass on the right to go south across the Falmouth Bridge. The most serious aspect of this situation is that vehicles turning right now cannot see the oncoming traffic headed south, creating extremely thrilling and dangerous situations. It has been recommended to VDOT for decades that this intersection be conspicuously marked with NO LEFT TURN signage starting at the bottom of the hill to keep that traffic off the hill in the firm belief that the right-turn option is sufficiently dangerous even when those drivers' views are not impeded. VDOT has thus far studiously ignored the problem. Would you please see if you can explain the problem to VDOT? --Fred Howe, Stafford
Date published: 4/7/2008
That's really great advice, not!
(posted by
Getitright
, Apr. 7, 2008 8:58 pm)
Wow. Chill out is the best advice you can offer for a problem that could result in a personal injury or fatal accident? You need to stay right where you are, on your porch, observing traffic at this intersection since you clearly do not grasp the seriousness of the points being made. VDOn'T should study this intersection, and in fact should have studied it long ago. It's sad that it takes an advertisement in the way of a FLS news article to get their ball rolling. They should be rolling their own balls.
I LIVE REAL CLOSE TO THIS STOP
(posted by
MnA_Mom
, Apr. 7, 2008 8:05 pm)
and everyone from the area knows not to wait to turn left there, VDOT could jusdt put up a sign warning that left turns are not recommended it help out with the problem, but of course thoSe drivers don't know the way around turning left there and still getting to where they need to go, AND those of us from the areA do, and since it is an only an occasional problem put yourself in that situation and think if you were in a strange area and ran into a simnilar problem.......................CHILL OUT PLEASE!
great quote
(posted by
rikkirat
, Apr. 7, 2008 3:27 pm)
"there is the inevitable car with Maryland license plates" Yep, if you encounter a really stupid or careless driver out on the roads take a look at the plates bet it's a Maryland plate.
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