“A 4 car 1 Tractor Trailer accident can tie Rush Hour traffic up for hours, add a serious injury or death and the shut down time is undetermined”
So, you’re all for something deadly happening, huh?
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Of course not.
I merely stated a FACT.
I probably should have ‘bracketed’ it but I was trying to point out that FEWER trucks, well placed would cause more ‘grief’ since an accident as I described does exactly as I described it.
At 739 this AM, the WashPost reported an overturned tractor trailer shut down ALL LANES of 495 @ Landover Rd. MDSP unsure HOW LONG BEFORE OPENED UP.
In the same ‘Alert’, they cite an accident on Balt/Wash Pkwy@175 with SOUTBOUND lanes are bumper to bumper and UNKNOWN how long before open - saying several hours.
ONE (if not both) of these was still going on at NOON, saying it happened at 4AM.
I am NOT sure, but I thought that the truckers had planned this BEFORE the shutdown.
‘They’ allowed the Immigration thing to go on because it was pre planned...we shall see....
And you are correct, it inconveniences the ‘wrong people’ but I think the original plan involved circling the Capitol and White House but they probably scrapped that ‘bad’ idea giving the present circumstances.
If you get 20-30(ea) rigs to hit the Beltway in both directions from 95 S in Md and N in VA, just doing the speed limit can/will tie the area up for hours and if they are doing the speed limit and staying out of the left lane they ‘just happen to be there’ and not exiting....
And all they’ll do is PO a lot of people. The way you wrote made it seem you were looking for ways to increase the efficiency of the disruption.
(BTW, the 175 was a pedestrian fatality. It was bad but I’m sure it finished before the truck issue. Why a pedestrian on the highway I don’t know.)