according to the sf chronicle, i drive through two of the top 4 traffic bottlenecks in the bay area every time i go to work:
Trucks, barred from I-580, jam onto this two-lane connector road, overflowing onto I-580 and I-880. The latest round of improvement is under way.
this one isn’t so bad, athough it’s the one i feared the most when moving to oakland. but it’s really really short, and it’s surprisingly easy for swooping.
Work under way to widen a highway that drops down to three lanes. Things should improve when work is finished in 2009.
this is the one that sucks eggs. every time i drive by, i see wide expanses of shoulder where there could be two more lanes, but then just aren’t. instead they squeeze five lanes into three, to accommodate huge girders left by the side of the road for the 680/880 connector they’re building. yet no progress seems to be made at all. 2009? are you f’ing KIDDING ME? where’s c.c. myers when you need them?
Posted at July 9, 2007 11:28 PM | TrackBack