PennDOT's dumbest project
PennDOT has done it again! They managed to take a bad intersection, and made it considerably worse. This morning, I had my first challenge of driving through the Spring Grove serpentine. That has got to be one of the dumbest if not THE dumbest projects I have seen perpetrated on the driving public by PennDOT.
It's worse than it ever was before. Traffic lanes are coming at you from every which direction. That was going toward Spring Grove. Coming back toward York was worse! The first thing that came to mind was a serpentine because of the way the curb undulates. I thought I was in the "circle" or whatever it's called and had the right of way. I wasn't and darned near caused an accident. What appears to be a sort of straight albeit squiggly through road is not the thoroughfare portion and traffic already in whatever this abomination is called has the right of way. I was trying to pay attention to the weaving road and where I was going and didn't notice the yield sign until the last minute when I almost pulled in front of another car.
There is already evidence of where trucks have run up over the curb.
When is PA going to get some common sense and hire some traffic engineers who know what they're doing!
Robert Martin
York
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Trying to identify PENNDOT'S "dumbest" project is very nearly an impossible task! Simply looking around York County one can find any number of examples where completed projects have made nothing better, and in many cases have in fact made things worse.
It is clear that many of these projects are a waste of taxpayer dollars while the Secretary of Transportation and the "Guvnah" continue to cry, "poverty, we need to increase taxes."
A case in point is the recent $58,000,000 "re-arrangement" of the area known as "dead-man's curve". It is certainly different, but I fail to see that it is any safer.
So far as hiring people with some degree of common sense-------a novel idea-----but not very likely. It seems that the same "genius" that conceived the original design of Interstate 83, was re-engaged for the re-design of the "dead-man's curve" project.