A few months ago, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said it would improve the traffic flow on W. 12th St. in Erie, and also minimize so-called aggressive driving.
How? By cutting the number of traffic lanes from three each way to two. It seemed counterintuitive.
The dust has settled and it looks like all that PennDOT accomplished was to create a rush hour bumper-to-bumper traffic jam.
I took a test drive yesterday during Erie’s rush hour. Erie’s rush hour is nothing like rush hours anywhere else I have been. Erie drivers are fortunate that the rush hour is only a few minutes long and so light.
The distance that formerly took me about five minutes to drive on the way to work took me almost 15 minutes yesterday.
Almost half of the way my speed was less than 10 or 15 miles an hour because I was jammed in bumper to bumper, stop and go traffic. I very seldom saw this before PennDOT’s redesign.
The drive took me three times as long as before, but I saw no aggressive driving. How could I? We could hardly move for half of the trip.
Your tax dollars at work.
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