I had to visit the great city of St. Louis today to see my doctor at Barnes and the trip down was pleasant. In fact I had my cruise on almost all the way to 270 which is amazing. The way home though was a mess. Of course I'm leaving my appointment right at 4pm, but I guess the Cardinal game let out around then too? Anyway, it took me over an hour to just get to Chesterfield where I decided I needed a soda and to just not be on the mess that is 64 for a while. After some time I got back on the road and somewhere around highway N there was even more mess. All in all my normal two hour trip took me 3.5 hours.
I don't know how you city people do it. It was stressful and I just wanted off the road.
Rant: Traffic
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IMADreamer
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CardsofSTL
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Re: Rant: Traffic
I have driven in a lot of cities but for the midwest...Chicago is the worst and Cincinnati second worst in my experience. St. Louis is a pain if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time but usually I don't have much trouble navigating around there. Familiarity with the area probably helps.
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Re: Rant: Traffic
Just going to tack this on here - why don't people on the highway zipper merge for lane closures? Is anyone against this in principle? We came back from vacation this past weekend and I probably saved 5 minutes of waiting by using the wide open left lane for maybe half a mile. Or maybe the question is why don't DOT's promote it?
Sure some people are aggressive and other are stubborn about letting people in, but most of the time it's fine.
Sure some people are aggressive and other are stubborn about letting people in, but most of the time it's fine.
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Re: Rant: Traffic
Chesterfield is no Creve Coeur.IMADreamer wrote: ↑July 31 24, 9:16 pmI had to visit the great city of St. Louis today to see my doctor at Barnes and the trip down was pleasant. In fact I had my cruise on almost all the way to 270 which is amazing. The way home though was a mess. Of course I'm leaving my appointment right at 4pm, but I guess the Cardinal game let out around then too? Anyway, it took me over an hour to just get to Chesterfield where I decided I needed a soda and to just not be on the mess that is 64 for a while. After some time I got back on the road and somewhere around highway N there was even more mess. All in all my normal two hour trip took me 3.5 hours.
I don't know how you city people do it. It was stressful and I just wanted off the road.