On Friday, Erica and I are headed to South Carolina (south of Myrtle Beach) to visit some family. We’ve got an eight hour drive (or more if this winter storm gets bad), mostly down I-95 and then US 501 in South Carolina, ahead of us. Any suggestions on places to grab a bite to eat? [...]
Metro Networks Presents ‘The Top Ten Worst Holiday Traffic Tie-Ups In America’ – PR Newswire
New York-Philadelphia-Washington, DC — Interstate 95. This corridor is easily the slowest 225 miles of highway during the holidays. The section from the Delaware Memorial Bridge to the George Washington Bridge is the worst of it.
Left unsaid is [...]
PERRYVILLE, Md. – Right after paying the one-way $5 toll for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway there is this awful I-95 sign:This is easiest the ugliest shield on a mainline big green sign* I have ever seen on I-95. It is almost as if the Maryland Transportation Authority, administrator of the toll road, is [...]
Higher tolls, fees start today – The News Journal, New Castle, Del.Steve Anderson of nycroads.com, dcroads.net and others tipped me off that the tolls are going up on the Delaware Turnpike. The highway, which includes I-95’s first 11 miles in Delaware, will now cost $4 at the main toll plaza east of the Maryland/Delaware line.
I [...]
Traffic to go up and away – The SunNow that the Springfield Interchange is completed in Virginia, Maryland is playing catch-up when it comes to complicated interchanges between I-95 and a beltway. North of the city, the I-95 (John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway)/I-695 (Baltimore Beltway) interchange is being rebuilt with “skyramps” to carry High Occupancy [...]
Celebrating Mixing Bowl’s Big Makeover – The PostFirst off, let me say that it still irks me that The Post labeled this interchange as the Mixing Bowl. The real Mixing Bowl is the original Shirley Highway (currently I-395)/Washington Blvd. (VA 27) interchange. Okay, now that I have said that (again) I [...]
New law allows toll booths to be built on Va.’s major highways – The Wash. ExaminerA new Virginia law allows for tolls to be added to existing interstate highways:
The law allows the state to erect toll booths on major highways to raise money for improvement work on the roads. Revenue would not be allowed to [...]
I-95/395 Toll Lanes, Wider I-66 Approved – The PostTwo expansion projects have been approved for Northern Virginia highways:
express toll lanes on Interstates 95 and 395
I am skeptical of HOT lanes and downright against leasing public roads to private companies, something Sun columnist Jay Hancock described as “transforming public utilities into private monopolies.” Looks like we’ll [...]
JAY HANCOCK – Del. might pick your pocket with I-95 lease – The SunA Baltimore columnist comes out against the privatization of the Delaware Turnpike (emphasis added):
Marylanders and other non-Delawareans would pay the inevitably higher I-95 tolls plus any other consequences of placing this economic lifeline in private hands. Leasing I-95 to some corporation [...]
I am off to Philly to claim my winnings for the Nats victory over the Fleas in the 2006 season series. The Ombudsman owes me a trip to Jim’s Steaks.
I will return this evening.
©MMX William F. Yurasko
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