Flashbacks:
The RNGC Caddyshackpocalypse
Bollards!
For the second time in recent memory, an enterprising Reston driver made an at-speed decision to park in the wide-open (and still free!) parking area known as Lake Anne this weekend, only to be stymied by the depth pole at the lake's edge.
Naysayers and cynics might say that, despite the massive influx of traffic since the opening of the Silver Line, the county has done nothing to address a well-known dangerous stretch of road while their eyes pop cartoon-style out of their heads while making cash register sounds anytime the word "woonerf" is uttered. They may point to public proclamations such as "we can't stop development waiting for the roads to be built" as evidence of this claim.
But nothing could be further from the truth, silly rabbits! Feast your eyes on the immediate and substantive response to the latest in a regular series of crashes along this stretch of road, bypassing the usual design charrettes and environmental studies that make building, say, a pedestrian overpass take a decade:
Problem solved.
Last time this happened I took a peek at the intersection of Wiehle and North Shore. The hump of North Shore sticks out into the right, southbound lane of Wiehle.
ReplyDeleteWhen the hump throws his car to the left an unskilled or "ahem" impaired driver will jerk the wheel to the right. Just the wrong thing to do, because the dip following the hump throws his car to the right. Whoopsie!