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DEL.ICIO.USHighway Horror Stories
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
After the March 2 fatal bus crash at I-75 and Northside Drive, readers were invited to write about highways that scare them- because of bad design, confusing signage or other factors.
Drivers depicted the Atlanta freeway system as an increasingly complex, high-speed maze, not for the faint of heart, where even a moment of confusion can be deadly. ” I saw one accident where a car flew off the westbound side and flipped over in the eastbound lanes,” wrote Kevin Kitchen of Austell.
Jim McKune of Woodstock’s description of a bottleneck was so complex he worried if anyone would understand it. Yet, it was telling about how confusing roads can be now.
“The problem occurs when two lanes of on-ramp traffic coming from the South Loop east side, try to merge into the five lanes of traffic of I-75 north,” he wrote.
Let’s talk about highway problems and how they can be fixed.
Comments
By James Bryden
March 13, 2007 12:41 PM | Link to this
oil is for gears not gas. The Govt and the car makers knew the technology was available to make 100 mile a gallon vehicles but did not take positive steps. Blaming the public is incorrect.