VDOT learned from ‘plunder’ of Rt. 29
The Virginia Department of Transportation is moving quickly to adopt new highway regulations to limit driveways and thereby prevent a repeat of the "plunder" of Route 29 North, according to a story in this morning's Richmond Times-Dispatch, which quotes former state Secretary of Transportation Whitt Clement thusly: "All one has to do is look at [U.S.] 29 North in Charlottesville to see the plunder of what had been a very good arterial highway. Now it's nothing more than a wide road with a stoplight on every corner."
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Hmmm...at some point in those two miles, the speed limit IS 45 mph, Vic. Going the speed limit isn't putzing. I get in that left lane two miles before Hollymead (often going above 45 mph when possible) because I don't want to have to deal with VDOT's brilliant merge situation at the airport.
Could this article possibly be any less informative?
Forest Lakes South is the epitome of bad planning.
With the height differential and vacant land abutting the south-bound lane, this would be an easy bridge-over and clover.
There are crashes there every day. And now with Hollymead Town Center, that area has become a magnet for left-lane putzes. Like a moth to the flame, they take the left lane. The putzes get into the left lane about 2 miles before Hollymead Town Center and drive at about 45 miles per hour all the way to Target.
That's the mess you get with multi-purpose roads. VDOT was smarter when it built Mercury Boulevard in Newport News.