Early '90s, but I shall remember it forever.
Do they still say that 5 is slow past the brewery?
Early '90s, but I shall remember it forever.
Do they still say that 5 is slow past the brewery?
Anaheim was just last Saturday. The Bay Area alternatives were Sunnyvale to Fremont vs 237 and 880, or 101 across the Dumbarton Bridge.
Where I drive there are frequently people who slow down for significant distances for no reason at all. They do cause congestion, but of a different sort than gaper block congestion, which usually clears up after the scene of the accident. Now, if the accident is in your direction, it meters the traffic which causes the speed up, but not if it is on the other side. Plus, all lanes slow down which cannot be caused by one person.
I used to drive on a five mile bridge, no exits or entrances on the span, which was an excellent demonstration of the impact of slower cars on traffic flow. C’mon, admit that you slow down just a bit at the scene to see what happened on the other side. You, me, and everyone else doing this is the cause.
In your model is it impossible for people behind this slow driver to pass him in another lane? That is what happens to the random slow driver in my experience, though there is a backup behind him in that lane - but not in others.
Second, does your model assume that only one driver slows to take a look? If one does, why not 1/4 or 1/2 of the drivers adjacent?
One would think that the congestion would follow the slow driver, while it really stays at the point of the accident - and by the memory effect, stays even after the accident is cleared.
Sorry I haven’t listened to a radio in like years, I really have no idea. I assume so though.
Here in San Diego, we have potentially four ways out of the Mission Valley area where I work, so if there is a clog on one or more of them, I will avoid them, and a traffic report will really help assuming I am listening to the radio rather than my iPod at that point.
I find this is particularly the case as summer comes to an end and schools start up, as is occurring now. When the soccer Moms hit the freeways to pick up kids, take them to karate, tee ball, or whatever time filling activity you do these days to keep them off drugs, traffic ebbs and flows in unpredictable ways. When you combine that with the college student commuters, and the mall traffic since there are two big ones in the area that may have a random ‘free blowjob sale’ (my name for it) that will bring people out in huge numbers around the malls you’ll want to avoid. Christmas shopping also gets pushed forward more every year, so one never knows when that mall traffic will start if they are a non-shopper like me.
“The lower deck is back to assembly …”
“128 south is clear from one to three, but hangs up around four and two twenty five; you get some running room after two …”
Did I mention none of the signs use 128 anymore, even where the road is 95 north and 93 south?
I’m convinced it’s a conspiracy to get people to use the purple line.