Seen in Print

[sarge]

They will come to Maryland.......in fact, the ICC operates as a toll road now.

The ICC can be a lovely road...up until a few months ago very few folks were using it precisely due to the toll. Regardless, post-retirement I only drive into Montgomery County or south when I feel I need a dose of humility. I much prefer heading north into the steppes of PA...

Healey

Indeed. As do I.

Just be wary of the marauding tribesmen..............

What? Hey! I missed that.

I was cleaning the blue paint off my face and burying the pieces of silver when all that was going down.


I do not miss the metropolitan corridor and have not felt the need for humility enough to go back just for a visit.

...and I would have been just fine not knowing what "slugging" is.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Indeed. As do I.

Just be wary of the marauding tribesmen..............

What? Hey! I missed that.

I was cleaning the blue paint off my face and burying the pieces of silver when all that was going down.

It's too cold for an old pensioner to be out and about starkers in blue - you'll scare the livestock!

I do not miss the metropolitan corridor and have not felt the need for humility enough to go back just for a visit.

I'm just sort of numb to it; got new music in the CD player.........

...and I would have been just fine not knowing what "slugging" is.

Actually quite surprised that a commuter of your distance might be unaware of the term. Hardly a recent development. Maybe not done in MD/PA, I guess? Quite organized in VA.

[healey36]

I'm just sort of numb to it; got new music in the CD player.........

hey...I thought you always used a thumb-drive...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I'm just sort of numb to it; got new music in the CD player.........

hey...I thought you always used a thumb-drive...

Not always - Got a CD from Richard Pinhas - "Metatron" - last week and I wanted to listen to it a few dozen times before adding it to my iPod and be able to drop it onto the flash drive.

Have about 5-6 gigs on the flash drive now............

[sarge]

...and I would have been just fine not knowing what "slugging" is.

Actually quite surprised that a commuter of your distance might be unaware of the term. Hardly a recent development. Maybe not done in MD/PA, I guess? Quite organized in VA.

I don't know about those living in suburban MD, but the long distance crowd not really since the HOV requirements really was such a small part of the overall trip. There was a van-pool company that was more of an attraction for the super-commuters, though.

It was only in the last four years when I actually had remotely consistent "hours" and a single place of work. That had me driving a route that had no HOV zones at all (I dodged I-270 by running back roads).

Before that was odd hours in any number of "offices" around the Beltway; certainly not conducive to carpooling and often outside the HOV hours anyway.

So, no. "Slugging" was never part of my world. Independence from the schedules of others certainly was. Mine was not the world of the stereotypical predictable Beltway cog.

[webenda]

We are still on HOV lanes?

The worst HOV lanes are the reversible ones. Here I am, driving down the fast lane and the clock ticks 3:45 PM. All of a sudden a few cars from the other side of the road move over into my lane and accelerate in an insane game of chicken. Fortunately a slow moving car in the lane to my right opened a gap and let me in.

[webenda]

This wasn't a print, until I did a screen capture and printed it.

I was watching the news when a pig came on to do a commercial, creating a perfect...

JUXTAPOSITION

[rogruth]

We are still on HOV lanes?

The worst HOV lanes are the reversible ones. Here I am, driving down the fast lane and the clock ticks 3:45 PM. All of a sudden a few cars from the other side of the road move over into my lane and accelerate in an insane game of chicken. Fortunately a slow moving car in the lane to my right opened a gap and let me in.

I have never seen that. Is that in Tucson?
Cincinnati had reversible center lanes with lights over them, red and green, to show direction but they were not HOV.
I think I remember that the lights would blink for awhile befor changing. There didn't seem to be a set time for a change but was based on traffic use.
Now I have to admit that I haven't been to Cincy since @ 1985.
The HOV lanes in Atlanta are HOV full time. They are never regular lanes.

My travel experiences have been rather limited for several years now and I don't know what has changed. Fortunately I/we was/were able to drive around the country to visit our kids. The youngest daughter lives 25 miles south in Hinesville,GA. Middle one is retired Air Force. She liked Abilene, TX and went there after
retiring.Oldest daughter lives at Morehead, KY since 1969. Son is the oldest and after @ 40 years in the Poughkeepsie, NY area retired and moved just down
the street from us. Wife and I did see much of our country in the past but we realize that our days of travel are just about over. We go to Savannah, 25 miles
east, and are really tired when we get home. I have been told that there are some nice things about getting old but I am having trouble finding them.

[webenda]

Tucson--came out of a bookstore between the reversible lane lights, thinking I still had time to use the center lane for a left turn. I was wrong.
http://tucson.com/news/local/tucson-tim ... 68d13.html

Virginia and Maryland seem to have bad head on collisions during reversible lane times.
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/local/t ... c5931.html

Or rear end collisions on ordinary streets when someone stops to make an illegal left turn while in an active reversible lane.
http://smnewsnet.com/archives/18814/cha ... d-route-5/

Never drove in Virgina or Maryland, always used the subway in DC or bus out of town.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...The worst HOV lanes are the reversible ones. Here I am, driving down the fast lane and the clock ticks 3:45 PM. All of a sudden a few cars from the other side of the road move over into my lane and accelerate ...

That sounds to me (having never heard of such a thing) like an idea that is criminally irresponsible. Somebody should find who came up w/ the idea and approved of it and have them arrested for negligence - failure to take reasonable care of the public - and for reckless endangerment. I'm serious.
Murph

[PRR Man]

There are no longer any HOV lanes in New Jersey, they were removed from the GS Parkway and I-287 years ago.

the only reversible lane in NJ I am aware of is on I-495 leading from the NJ Turnpike to the Lincoln Tunnel, which is strictly for bus traffic only.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...The worst HOV lanes are the reversible ones. Here I am, driving down the fast lane and the clock ticks 3:45 PM. All of a sudden a few cars from the other side of the road move over into my lane and accelerate ...

That sounds to me (having never heard of such a thing) like an idea that is criminally irresponsible. Somebody should find who came up w/ the idea and approved of it and have them arrested for negligence - failure to take reasonable care of the public - and for reckless endangerment. I'm serious.
Murph

Actually, it's the result of drivers failing to heed signage and closures, and failing to pay attention to the time of day that causes these accidents. In fact, far too many accidents take place from failing to pay attention as all too many drivers are off in their own little personal universe while driving not aware that there are others on the road at all. Factor in phones and the internet while driving, the ability of the most marginally competent holding licenses to drive, and you get the DC area.

Slugging seems to be far more of a VA phenomenon and culture - MD simply has lagged far behind VA in HOV lanes and being car-pool friendly. That 270 corridor is a driving horror except on off hours.

[J. S. Bach]

There aren't?

Hmmm:

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[HONDO74]