Okay, really?

[bgelber]

I can tell you after having lived in metro Atlanta for three years a empty interstate NEVER happens unless it's closed. Then there where always the idiots that felt they could drive through anything. There are crazy people in the ATL

I don't miss it one bit

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Rte.66_chicks :

I like the "dumb motorist law" we have here. Those who have to be rescued from such situations foot the bill-and in some cases, that includes helicopter rescue. It is just incredible how many stupid people just drive right into flooded roads-they even go around barricades.

Of course there was the case a few years ago of some older teenage girls who were lost in the snow for a couple of weeks--they had mistakenly taken a road that was LATER closed. Since the chain baricade had not been moved, nobody searching for them checked that road for well over a week. The imbiciles who closed the road did not bother to check to make sure that no one was already on it and stuck. Thankfully, they survived, but I think one of the girls lost her feet.​

 

[StupidBird]

If I ever get on the Atlanta highways, any of 'em, and there were no cars, I'd have to think I slept through the evacuation or start looking for zombies...

Even REAL Nascar drivers want nothing to do with Atlanta traffic. We just passed laws that allow the police to get you for driving too slow (no matter what the posted speed limit is) for the surrounding traffic. Which most rush hours is 85 mph or so, unless it just stops. There is no in between speed.

As far as the under construction closed road, the DOT does not allow certain new highway projects to open until they pass inspection. But that's just a rumor.

 

[seismic wonder2]

 

[PineappleMama]

If you're gonna shut down a road then you have to shut down ALL access points.

Otherwise you're going to have someone get on AFTER the sign that won't have any idea.

I have the same gripe about speed limit signs... if you don't have one at every on ramp then how can you figure that a person knows that the speed limit is X... when previously they were on a 'town road' where it was Y being their only reference... and I hardly think that the 40 or less on a 'town road' would work on the highway...

 

[StupidBird]

can't
breathe!
laughing so hard!!

forgot about that video! CLASSIC atlanta traffic!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote:
Well, freeway speed limits tend to be the same in al parts of a town/city, but I certainly see your point. And I wholeheartedly agree with your first comment.

 

[PineappleMama]

Not around here... some are 55, some are 60, some are 65, and some stretches are even 70... if you think you're in the 70 and it's really a 55 you can be charged with reckless endangerment on top of the regular speeding ticket.

Not that it's happened to me, or anyone I know for that matter, but it's just one of those things I noticed that drove me nuts... I ended up driving 55 for something near 10 MILES before finally a sign was posted showing 65... and lemme tell you, even in the granny lane, a TON of people were NOT happy with me. But how was I to know... when there wasn't a sign?

Oh and bonus points for those long stretches of construction and no signs but at the beginning of it... because down here fines DOUBLE if you're tagged in a construction zone (with workers present)... if ONE guy is down there, not even working, just standing there... double your trouble.

Hmmm... pet peeve much?

 

[StupidBird]

ditto here, PineappleMama! With the 15mph over "super speeder" fines, construction zone fines, the move over or slow down 10mph or whatever fines, I stick to the back roads if practical. 985 up to clayton, ga actually has/had weekday vs weekend speed limits - one set of signs covered when they want to catch all the out-of-town tourists up for the weekend.

 

[PineappleMama]

^Sneaky... since some people consider Friday or even a Monday part of a weekend if there's a holiday... clever indeed.