http://www.dslreports.com/forum/NOVA-road-construction-morons-22842334 en Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:34:28 EDT Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:34:28 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-NOVA-road-construction-morons-23098936 --
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The population is growing so fast here that there isn't really a way to fix this...

The only real solution imo = Metro or biking to work. Not that either of those is flawless, but at least they're more reliable than driving here.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-NOVA-road-construction-morons-23096007 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:09:45 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-NOVA-road-construction-morons-22981179 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-NOVA-road-construction-morons-22981179 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:36:43 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-NOVA-road-construction-morons-22853314 --
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-NOVA-road-construction-morons-22853314 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:35:21 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-NOVA-road-construction-morons-22848308 said by tim_k:

It's not the construction that bothers me, in fact I except it at night. My complaint is the lack of notification for major roadwork and the lack of signs indicating work ahead.
Depends on the roadwork. For major projects, they often publicize it on local news outlets in the weeks ahead (e.g., when they did traffic redirection/closures for the opening of the new spans of the new WW bridge). For something that's only going to be a small span of time and likely to effect a relatively small number of travelers, the notification usually takes place in the form of the electronic road work signs, notice on the VADOT web site and radio traffic alerts. The latter is most useful when you have traffic service enabled GPS like mine.
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»www.virginiadot.org/travel/trave···ault.asp

As far as bad road markings in northern Virginia, it's true. They can't do signage worth a damn.
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If you ever get out around Harrisonburg or Broadway, you'll be thrilled to know that they have signs everywhere alerting drivers that "double lines mean do not pass."

And people say DC is a fustercluck? :p
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Next, a couple months ago I'm coming down I95 when the electronic traffic sign said that all lanes of I495 W are closed for construction and to go around I495 E. How could they do something like that without some advanced warning? If MD closed an entire highway, you can be sure they would let commuters know in advance. I always allow a lot of extra time so going around I495 in the opposite direction won't make me late. Then I get two miles from my exit and they shut down three lanes with a backup that takes about 20-30 mins to get through. That would me about 5-10 mins late, but now I'm confused. I'm about 3/4 mile from my exit and I see an exit sign in the cones, but I'm not sure what exit it's for. I'm so far from my exit that I don't think it's mine, so I go past it. A short time later I realize that it was my exit and try to get on it, but there is no way to get through. I would have crashed through if it was just cones, but now they have concrete barriers that I can't get through. I end up taking I66 W and turning around. Luckily while taking an exit to get turned around I saw a detour sign for I495 because there was no obvious way to get back on I66 E and I discovered the wife had the GPS. Before calling me an idiot for missing my exit, I overheard a co-worker talking and he did the exact same thing.

Then a couple days ago they started completely closing my exit. So where do they put the exit closed sign? About 100 ft before the exit. Real smart, if they just put it 1/4 mile away, I'd be able to take the exit in the opposite direction and quickly get turned around, but no! I have to go down to the next exit where the quickest way to get back on I495 is to make an illegal left hand turn, which I did see several people doing. Then they opened the exit for the next several days. Tonight, they didn't even bother putting up an 'exit closed' sign, they just sealed it off. This time I tried the GPS to see how it gets me back and it decided to take me on a road with a ton of traffic lights. Boy, my blood pressure.....
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