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Re: Trouble on the Maine Turnpike



In article <3vjupb$mnh$2@mhafn.production.compuserve.com>, 
70531.413@CompuServe.COM says...
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>Several bridge construction projects on the Maine Turnpike between 
>York and South Portland are causing major traffic backups this 
>summer due to lane closures.  Unfortunately, the pike management is 
>NOT using any backup alleviation schemes that are common elsewhere, 
>such as only closing lanes during night work, or such as 
>constructing temporary bypass lanes to keep all lanes open.  They 
>are arbitrarily just closing lanes during the day, with no warnings,
>causing massive backups that extend for miles.  
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>The locations of these backups change from day to day, even from 
>hour to hour sometimes, so any location report posted here is 
>useless.  But you should expect on average to hit about two of them 
>each time you try to traverse this section.  
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>Perhpas the most irritating thing of all, and the thing that is most
>indicative of the total arrogance of the management, is that when 
>you finally inch your way through miles of backup and get to the 
>work site, most of the time you see, to your utter astonishment, 
>that the lane that is closed is empty!!  Usually, there's nothing in
>it, no work going on there, and obviously no reason at all that it 
>has to be closed!!  
>
>-- 
>David G. Hawkins

Maybe the Maine Turnpike authority gets its planning ideas from 
CALTRANS... :)  That is ever-so-typical of the Los Angeles freeway 
system... <grin>

Aaron



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