Wednesday June 22nd 2016

It was a long day. I left my RV home at 9AM and returned at 11:30PM. In between I got a few things accomplished at the house and saw a baseball game in Nashua. So I’d say it was also a busy day.

During my drive up and back I had a chance to observe a few things about traffic and road construction. First, there is a lot of it and many drivers just don’t seem to pay attention to the orange signs.

On my way north this morning there were three areas with lane closures on the Interstate. Based on this limited observation and thinking back to other similar episodes, drivers seem to be able to handle right lane closures better than left lane closures. This may be because the left lane people don’t want to abandon their fast speeds until they can’t go any further with out leaving the lane.

The other construction observation is that night construction is blinding. Several bridge overpasses were being painted on my return trip tonight. This involves closing two lanes of traffic, putting up huge blinking arrows to move the traffic, strategically placing at least two police cars with blinking blue lights and then setting up millions of candle watts of work lights. As you move along your eyes start to blink with the arrows, look away from the blinking blue strobes of the police lights, then switch to day light mode in the actual work zone. In less than a minute you go from night driving to daylight driving to night driving. I wonder how many people can see as they go back into darkness?

I’m now stepping off my soapbox.   Tomorrow is a normal day. I don’t have any extracurricular activities planned. I’ll just work on getting the house ready.