I95 Richmond to the Beltway people suck in cars for 17 plus hours

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You would be surprised - one of my friends and her family were stuck on 95. They were driving up from Florida. She told me it was terrible. They did not have food or water with them, nor blankets. I always have blankets, water, snacks, jumper cable etc, the basics in the car.

Who the hell drives that far without food/blankets/etc?

I get the people driving from Richmond (or wherever). But Florida? When we do anything over 4 hours or so, we always have water, snacks, jumper cables, and pillows and blankets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quantico is the problem. There is always a bottleneck around Quantico and Stafford. The road needs to be widened. Or a beltway put in. This was not an unusual situation: traffic is almost always bad around those areas going both ways.

The road certainly needs to be widened, but the problem is the hills in that area.

People simply can't maintain a constant speed up the hills and it backs up traffic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You would be surprised - one of my friends and her family were stuck on 95. They were driving up from Florida. She told me it was terrible. They did not have food or water with them, nor blankets. I always have blankets, water, snacks, jumper cable etc, the basics in the car.

Who the hell drives that far without food/blankets/etc?

I get the people driving from Richmond (or wherever). But Florida? When we do anything over 4 hours or so, we always have water, snacks, jumper cables, and pillows and blankets.

About five years ago we got off a Disney cruise, took a taxi to Orlando and found our flight home was canceled due to an ice storm. We couldn’t get another flight home for days so we rented a car and drove. We got snacks and water and coffee but had no blankets and mainly cruise clothes. We hit the horrible part of 95 at about 3 in the morning so we were fine, but we may have been screwed if we were a few hours later since the mixing bowl was super icy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You would be surprised - one of my friends and her family were stuck on 95. They were driving up from Florida. She told me it was terrible. They did not have food or water with them, nor blankets. I always have blankets, water, snacks, jumper cable etc, the basics in the car.

Who the hell drives that far without food/blankets/etc?

I get the people driving from Richmond (or wherever). But Florida? When we do anything over 4 hours or so, we always have water, snacks, jumper cables, and pillows and blankets.

About five years ago we got off a Disney cruise, took a taxi to Orlando and found our flight home was canceled due to an ice storm. We couldn’t get another flight home for days so we rented a car and drove. We got snacks and water and coffee but had no blankets and mainly cruise clothes. We hit the horrible part of 95 at about 3 in the morning so we were fine, but we may have been screwed if we were a few hours later since the mixing bowl was super icy.

I would have hit up a Walmart or Target. You can usually find throw blankets for between $6-20 each depending on how much you want to spend and what materials. The fleece throws are really inexpensive. I would never try to drive from Florida to the DC area in winter without blankets. If any emergency happens in the winter, you need blankets. Especially if all you have are cruise clothes.

[Anonymous]

This 93-year-old was on the way from New York to Naples with “a couple of Diet Cokes, a big chocolate chip cookie and a small container of peanuts.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/01/06/virginia-i95-snow-driver/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This 93-year-old was on the way from New York to Naples with “a couple of Diet Cokes, a big chocolate chip cookie and a small container of peanuts.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/01/06/virginia-i95-snow-driver/

Why was he bring a weeks worth of food?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quantico is the problem. There is always a bottleneck around Quantico and Stafford. The road needs to be widened. Or a beltway put in. This was not an unusual situation: traffic is almost always bad around those areas going both ways.

The road certainly needs to be widened, but the problem is the hills in that area.

People simply can't maintain a constant speed up the hills and it backs up traffic.

The DMV really needs a new Interstate-grade Eastern bypass that follows US 301 and I-97 from Caroline County through southern Maryland to Baltimore. I-95 can't handle the volume by itself anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quantico is the problem. There is always a bottleneck around Quantico and Stafford. The road needs to be widened. Or a beltway put in. This was not an unusual situation: traffic is almost always bad around those areas going both ways.

The road certainly needs to be widened, but the problem is the hills in that area.

People simply can't maintain a constant speed up the hills and it backs up traffic.

The DMV really needs a new Interstate-grade Eastern bypass that follows US 301 and I-97 from Caroline County through southern Maryland to Baltimore. I-95 can't handle the volume by itself anymore.

No way! We need a national rail network on par with Germany or Japan. There is no reason for everyone to drive 900 miles in their own little box.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quantico is the problem. There is always a bottleneck around Quantico and Stafford. The road needs to be widened. Or a beltway put in. This was not an unusual situation: traffic is almost always bad around those areas going both ways.

The road certainly needs to be widened, but the problem is the hills in that area.

People simply can't maintain a constant speed up the hills and it backs up traffic.

The DMV really needs a new Interstate-grade Eastern bypass that follows US 301 and I-97 from Caroline County through southern Maryland to Baltimore. I-95 can't handle the volume by itself anymore.

No way! We need a national rail network on par with Germany or Japan. There is no reason for everyone to drive 900 miles in their own little box.

Nah rather be in my own little box with my own things, music etc than listening to your kids scream and cry their way home

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quantico is the problem. There is always a bottleneck around Quantico and Stafford. The road needs to be widened. Or a beltway put in. This was not an unusual situation: traffic is almost always bad around those areas going both ways.

The road certainly needs to be widened, but the problem is the hills in that area.

People simply can't maintain a constant speed up the hills and it backs up traffic.

The DMV really needs a new Interstate-grade Eastern bypass that follows US 301 and I-97 from Caroline County through southern Maryland to Baltimore. I-95 can't handle the volume by itself anymore.

No way! We need a national rail network on par with Germany or Japan. There is no reason for everyone to drive 900 miles in their own little box.

Nah rather be in my own little box with my own things, music etc than listening to your kids scream and cry their way home

Notice how you left out the part about how your superficial and antisocial desires have caused our planet to burn. I have always known that this type of thinking is selfish and myopic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quantico is the problem. There is always a bottleneck around Quantico and Stafford. The road needs to be widened. Or a beltway put in. This was not an unusual situation: traffic is almost always bad around those areas going both ways.

The road certainly needs to be widened, but the problem is the hills in that area.

People simply can't maintain a constant speed up the hills and it backs up traffic.

The DMV really needs a new Interstate-grade Eastern bypass that follows US 301 and I-97 from Caroline County through southern Maryland to Baltimore. I-95 can't handle the volume by itself anymore.

As someone relatively new to this area, the bottleneck on that part of 95 is baffling to me. It’s always bumper to bumper! Why? Why would the traffic be heavier there than before and after? I don’t recall any narrowing of lanes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quantico is the problem. There is always a bottleneck around Quantico and Stafford. The road needs to be widened. Or a beltway put in. This was not an unusual situation: traffic is almost always bad around those areas going both ways.

The road certainly needs to be widened, but the problem is the hills in that area.

People simply can't maintain a constant speed up the hills and it backs up traffic.

The DMV really needs a new Interstate-grade Eastern bypass that follows US 301 and I-97 from Caroline County through southern Maryland to Baltimore. I-95 can't handle the volume by itself anymore.

No way! We need a national rail network on par with Germany or Japan. There is no reason for everyone to drive 900 miles in their own little box.

I’d rather be in my own little box, than share a rail car full of coughing and sneezing people infected with the Novel Coronavirus!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quantico is the problem. There is always a bottleneck around Quantico and Stafford. The road needs to be widened. Or a beltway put in. This was not an unusual situation: traffic is almost always bad around those areas going both ways.

The road certainly needs to be widened, but the problem is the hills in that area.

People simply can't maintain a constant speed up the hills and it backs up traffic.

The DMV really needs a new Interstate-grade Eastern bypass that follows US 301 and I-97 from Caroline County through southern Maryland to Baltimore. I-95 can't handle the volume by itself anymore.

No way! We need a national rail network on par with Germany or Japan. There is no reason for everyone to drive 900 miles in their own little box.

Amtrak got snowed in too when this happened…