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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!!
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>--
>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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