08-25-2009, 11:46 AM
There is a speed trap there. I know of three people who've gotten stopped, two of whom got hefty tickets, one for upwards of four hundred dollars.
The officer isn't there all the time of course.
I drove it Sunday evening. The new section is great. People are driving it very fast, but the 35 mph speed limit is still up in one part and if you get stopped doing 80 there you are so screwed ... 35 is ridiculous, and no one is going that slow either, so I find it stressful as I am not psychic about whether a cop will be lurking.
The rough road part with the one lane bridges is I think more sketchy than on the old road, because now people get into flying and because the approaches to the one lane bridges have curves, it's hard to see whether someone is coming, and then all of a sudden someone has to stop real fast, and worse, people don't obey the yield signs and try to go by the first one to arrive rule that some one lane bridges use. I'll like it a lot better once that is bypassed.
The officer isn't there all the time of course.
I drove it Sunday evening. The new section is great. People are driving it very fast, but the 35 mph speed limit is still up in one part and if you get stopped doing 80 there you are so screwed ... 35 is ridiculous, and no one is going that slow either, so I find it stressful as I am not psychic about whether a cop will be lurking.
The rough road part with the one lane bridges is I think more sketchy than on the old road, because now people get into flying and because the approaches to the one lane bridges have curves, it's hard to see whether someone is coming, and then all of a sudden someone has to stop real fast, and worse, people don't obey the yield signs and try to go by the first one to arrive rule that some one lane bridges use. I'll like it a lot better once that is bypassed.