June 28th, 2013
As a qualifier, all the roadways listed below would often otherwise be great rides for scenery and for the locations of the roadways as well.
The most dangerous drive in the United States is essentially any
highway-type construction zone in the northeastern portion of the nation. Typically these construction zones have
narrowed lanes with reduced speed limits.
However, if one actually attempts to drive at the posted and reduced
speed limit, they will likely be risking life and limb because many of the
other motorists will often be zooming by at twice that speed. As such, anyone who actually attempts to drive
at the reduced speed limit through the typical northeastern highway/expressway/interstate/parkway
construction zone is likely a sitting-duck for the many seemingly reckless
drivers who will pass with disregard and abandon while less than inches to
spare from a collision at the high speed of the one who cares not of the
reduced speed limit.
Noteworthy for excessively dangerous construction zones and
conditions with vehicles often driven at more than 35 - 50 miles per hour (mph)
over any posted speed include the following roadways:
Foremost as the most consistently
dangerous for highway-type construction zones is New York City’s Belt Parkway through Brooklyn and Queens, New York
(NYC Boroughs). I know, … a parkway of
all places! Driving at the posted speed
requires nerves of steel and no fear of becoming prematurely grey with one’s
hair. Never is a highway patrol to be
seen and even if a patrol car is seen they are driving even faster than the
others and the patrols seem not to care of those others driving with reckless
abandon (while inches away from concrete walls and innocent others trying to do the speed limit).
Hey Belt Parkway law
enforcement officials:
Will I be given a
citation for speeding if I am doing 50+ mph in a 35 mph because I don’t wish to
be run-over by the other cars and light trucks being driven in excess of 80 mph
in the same 35 mph construction zone?
The second most dangerous construction zone – and second
merely because this construction has not been as long standing as the Belt
Parkway – is the New Jersey Turnpike. The
NJ Turnpike can actually be even more dangerous as on the Turnpike one has
big-tractor-trailer trucks trying to pass at 80 mph in 45 mph construction
zones with narrowed lanes. (Tractor
trailer type trucks are not allowed on parkways.)
Hey New Jersey Turnpike law enforcement
officials:
Will I be given a
citation for speeding if I am doing 60+ mph in a 35 or 45 mph because I don’t wish
to be run-over by the other cars and big-truck being driven in excess of 80 mph
in the same 35 or 45 mph construction zone?
Other consistently dangerous construction zones for the same
reasoning often especially include any highway type construction zones anywhere
around the Tappan Zee
Bridge area and Interstate 95 in New York.
Overall
sentiment: Pathetic! Horrifically dangerous roads these
highway/expressways/interstates/parkways become when they are under
construction regardless of reduced speed limits. To add insult to injury, the roadway
authorities still typically insist on collecting the exorbitant tolls even if
the road is totally unsafe, extremely congested, or totally jammed because of
the construction zones.
One way to begin to fix these dangerous conditions on the
roadways would be to repeal the Eleventh Amendment to the Federal Constitution
– trust me on this one. Search Eleventh Amendment on one of my other blogs if interested (http://adamvernontrotter.blogspot.com/)
Adam Trotter
