9 years ago, I had 100’s of engineering friends and acquaintances from 100’s of different engineering firms. Now they all work for Jacobs Engineering... FUBO
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Hope the Feds take a look into insider trading...
I-84 in Connecticut is going to be fixed, but when is the question...
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And in April, the Maryland Department of Transportation awarded a $100 million contract to a 16-member design-build team to come up with ways to improve traffic flow and ease congestion on Interstate 270 between Interstate 495 and Frederick, MD — just outside Washington, DC. The state expects to use technology to give motorists real-time traffic information in its quest to cut average travel time by 30 minutes.
I’ll do it for them for a lot less than $100 million. Here are the main problems with I-270’s northern portion (in the area of Frederick).
Problem 1: it drops from as many as six lanes EACH WAY in the southern portion to a mere two each way. In other words, two-thirds of its capacity — but less than two-thirds of its traffic — goes away before it reaches its northern terminus.
Problem 2: the two lanes of I-270 northbound join with the three lanes of I-70 westbound to continue as I-70 further west — with just two lanes each way. So yeah, five lanes of traffic feeding into two.
Short-term solutions: (1) add a third lane each way on I-270 all the way up to Frederick, and have that lane be an “exit only” onto U.S. 15 northbound serving Frederick itself and points north. (2) add a third lane each way on I-70 westbound at least as far as I-81 to Hagerstown, and preferably as far as where I-68 splits off I-70 in Hancock.
OK, I’ll take my consultant check now.