Doesn’t sound like Germans to me
Rob O’Hara meets up with the Anti-Destination League:
Twice this week I’ve ended up stuck on I-270.
Not a road I’ve ever spent any substantial time on, I admit.
It always starts well. The ride from where I’m staying to Germantown isn’t bad, but that’s where the problems begin. The people of Germantown have a propensity to pull on to the Interstate and just park. Seriously, that’s what it looks like. (The part where it goes from four lanes to two doesn’t help, either.) There are only a few exits to Germantown, but I sat stationary for almost 20 minutes.
And while you’re not moving there are plenty of signs to look at, like the ones that say “Trucks: No Changing Lanes”. Trust me, trucks are not changing lanes. Just like the rest of us, they’re not moving side-to-side (or forward for that matter).
And because there’s always a punchline:
Then there’s the speed limit sign that warns you about speeding. “Speed Limit: 65mph. Your Speed: 7mph.”
Geez. What’s Montgomery County going to do for revenue?
McGehee »
20 November 2009 · 11:50 am
There are minimum speed laws too, you know.
CGHill »
20 November 2009 · 11:58 am
Yeah. I want to see them enforce a 40 minimum on the way into the Capital Beltway. I have a better chance of, as Denis Leary says, seeing Cindy Crawford naked eating an Eskimo Pie.
Charles Pergiel »
20 November 2009 · 5:32 pm
For a minute there I thought you were talking about Columbus. Then I went and checked. There are three different Interstate 270’s: Maryland, Columbus, Ohio, and St. Louis, Missouri. Huh.
CGHill »
20 November 2009 · 5:41 pm
The segment in Maryland, so far as I can recall, is the only one I’ve never driven — not that I spent that much time bypassing St. Louis or Columbus.
Dick Stanley »
21 November 2009 · 1:57 am
Sounds like I-35 in downtown Austin on any weekday at just about any time.
CGHill »
21 November 2009 · 10:04 am
The one thing I learned in my student days that ultimately proved useful was how to get around Austin without getting on the, um, Interregional Highway. (I didn’t have a car in those days, so I had little choice in the matter.) Then again, this was forty years ago: there was little reason to go north of Braker or south of Oltorf.
robohara »
21 November 2009 · 10:06 pm
I had no idea there were so many I-270s, but yeah, I was referring to the one that flows into D.C. My favorite signs around the beltway are still there as well: “Aggressive Driver Imaging”. I don’t know how it works but I left my sunglasses on and pulled the sun visor down, just in case.