Psa

[willie]

Actually, this is fun to watch.

The signs on St. Andrews Church Rd going North across RT4 at 235 have been changed. The left lane, instead of left only, can either turn left or go straight across towards the TJ Bridge. The drivers in the right lane are accustomed to pulling into the left lane while crossing 235 but now someone is already there. There's finger flippin', horn blowing and total confusion. On the plus side, it has almost doubled the number of cars that can get through that light now.

 

[greyhound]

Actually, this is fun to watch.

The signs on St. Andrews Church Rd going North across RT4 at 235 have been changed. The left lane, instead of left only, can either turn left or go straight across towards the TJ Bridge. The drivers in the right lane are accustomed to pulling into the left lane while crossing 235 but now someone is already there. There's finger flippin', horn blowing and total confusion. On the plus side, it has almost doubled the number of cars that can get through that light now.

This is like Deja Vous......

http://forums.somd.com/showpost.php?p=1593932&postcount=1

 

[OrneryPest]

Actually, this is fun to watch.

The signs on St. Andrews Church Rd going North across RT4 at 235 have been changed. The left lane, instead of left only, can either turn left or go straight across towards the TJ Bridge. The drivers in the right lane are accustomed to pulling into the left lane while crossing 235 but now someone is already there. There's finger flippin', horn blowing and total confusion. On the plus side, it has almost doubled the number of cars that can get through that light now.

Thank you for the heads-up! I do that intersection pretty often, whenever I come out of Lowes or Staples the back way onto St Accidents Crunch Road.

 

[Ponytail]

It doubles the number of cars that have to merge AFTER the light now, which so far from my observation, only doubles the number of "salutes" that are given.

 

[huntr1]

Not having read this post (or any other posts dealing with this subject), I was unpleasantly surprised last night when I got to experience this change first hand last night. Thankfully there was a hole in the line of traffic 2 car lengths prior to the intersection and I was able to move over 1 lane to the left in order to make the legal left turn.

 

[CrashTest]

This makes a lot of sense. Now instead of having 4 lanes of traffic trying to squeeze onto the one lane of Rt. 4, you have 5 lanes.

 

[greyhound]

This makes a lot of sense. Now instead of having 4 lanes of traffic trying to squeeze onto the one lane of Rt. 4, you have 5 lanes.

Explain please....5 lanes?

 

[CrashTest]

Explain please....5 lanes?

1 - Two lanes of southbound traffic on Rt 235 turning left onto Rt 4
2 - One lane of northbound traffic on Rt 235 turning right onto Rt 4
3 - Two lanes of traffic southbound on Rt 4 crossing Rt 235 heading towards bridge.

When it's bottlenecked, all those lanes are fighting for the only lane on Rt 4 all at the same time. Previously, it was 4 lanes fighting for one. Now it's gonna be 5 lanes.

 

[greyhound]

Ah... I was looking at it as ...1 through lane, 1 merge lane and 1 yield to merge lane.

 

[CrashTest]

Anyway you slice it, it's a cluster-f$%K. The latest change is mainly gonna hurt folks heading north and turning right onto Rt.4 and that's where the majority of the cars come from. That line is gonna start even further back because now with 2 lanes crossing over versus only 1, it will take much longer to clear thus holding up the merging cars.

My move out of Calvert is starting to look better all the time