Rush hour 3/11 Flag-gers prevent south bound drivers from turning east on W. 44 st. A bus driver protests by b I t c h slapping his window shut. Another follower pretends to slap a flagger with a backhand.
The north bound lanes begin on 44th street and 11th ave. Heading south toward the Lincoln Tunnel, the two lanes turn into four headed south after 44th street. That change from two ways on 11th avenue into one way may have been designed for northbound UPS trucks exiting the warehouse from the west side of 44th and 11th. So in the morning when the convoys begin deliveries, "Brown" can have it's cake and eat it too.
But by evening this north bound lane fills with southbound travellers crowding into the middle of 44 street for the Lincoln Tunnel. After all, the cheaters won't have to veer left into bumper to bumper traffic after crossing 44th, so why not start early? Those who drive properly to 44th fume at cheaters who jump ahead. To angle left into the lanes bound for the Lincoln Tunnel, some block east bound cars on 44th that have to cross 11th avenue by snaking through the pedestrian path. My job on 3/11 is to count only pedestrians. There is not much to do but cringe.
The police issue wrong lane citations by ordering v I o l at e r s to turn east onto 44th. Hence, these Jersey bound drivers are directed back into Manhattan's gridlock. So a few fed up drivers refuse to stop to be ticketed. An exasperated ticket writer spreads her hands as if to say, "what can you do?"
The problem is resolved for ten or twenty minutes then returns after the traffic cops move on. An officer who has bigger fish to fry elsewhere (bicyclists running red lights?) tells me to report the problem to the Department of Transportation. I show him an authorization from DOT to my employer, an engineer named B-A Engineering sub contracted by DOT, along with American Travel Information. The cop gasps out of frustration. The letter states the project counting pedestrians or drivers pertains to spot speed radar checks for the Vision Zero law that reduced the speed from a 30 mph limit to 25 mph. This does not address the problem with converting a two way road into a one way for Jersey bound commuters south of 44th on 11th. That citation writer's sense of priority seems ignored at present. So he turns to a traffic counter who was dismissed as a citation writer to resolve the problem.
Rush hour 3/11
ReplyDeleteFlag-gers prevent south bound drivers from turning east on W. 44 st. A bus driver protests by b I t c h slapping his window shut. Another follower pretends to slap a flagger with a backhand.
The north bound lanes begin on 44th street and 11th ave. Heading south toward the Lincoln Tunnel, the two lanes turn into four headed south after 44th street. That change from two ways on 11th avenue into one way may have been designed for northbound UPS trucks exiting the warehouse from the west side of 44th and 11th. So in the morning when the convoys begin deliveries, "Brown" can have it's cake and eat it too.
But by evening this north bound lane fills with southbound travellers crowding into the middle of 44 street for the Lincoln Tunnel. After all, the cheaters won't have to veer left into bumper to bumper traffic after crossing 44th, so why not start early? Those who drive properly to 44th fume at cheaters who jump ahead. To angle left into the lanes bound for the Lincoln Tunnel, some block east bound cars on 44th that have to cross 11th avenue by snaking through the pedestrian path. My job on 3/11 is to count only pedestrians. There is not much to do but cringe.
The police issue wrong lane citations by ordering v I o l at e r s to turn east onto 44th. Hence, these Jersey bound drivers are directed back into Manhattan's gridlock. So a few fed up drivers refuse to stop to be ticketed. An exasperated ticket writer spreads her hands as if to say, "what can you do?"
The problem is resolved for ten or twenty minutes then returns after the traffic cops move on. An officer who has bigger fish to fry elsewhere (bicyclists running red lights?) tells me to report the problem to the Department of Transportation. I show him an authorization from DOT to my employer, an engineer named B-A Engineering sub contracted by DOT, along with American Travel Information. The cop gasps out of frustration. The letter states the project counting pedestrians or drivers pertains to spot speed radar checks for the Vision Zero law that reduced the speed from a 30 mph limit to 25 mph. This does not address the problem with converting a two way road into a one way for Jersey bound commuters south of 44th on 11th. That citation writer's sense of priority seems ignored at present. So he turns to a traffic counter who was dismissed as a citation writer to resolve the problem.