Notch always has closed for the winter

The most frustrating thing about 24 is that both ends have the same problem, which is that the amount of lanes suddenly drops as the road ends, and in both cases it would be trivially easy to fix. 24e->78e you have 3 lanes that suddenly drop to 2. 24w->287n you have 3 lanes that suddenly drops to 1.

The 24e->78e spot causes a multi mile long traffic jam every day for several hours. They literally could make it 3 lanes by changing where the paint is on a quarter mile stretch of the road. Seriously, go look at it on google maps. The road is ALREADY WIDE ENOUGH that they could add a third lane by just painting it on there. Wtf.

As bad as that spot is, the 24w->287n merge has been a problem for literally 30 years. Most of that ramp is also wide enough to be 2 lanes on its own and the rest of the ramp is surrounded by forest.

22, from Mountainside to the airport. Terrifying.

22/202/206 interchange (Somerville Circle).

24w->287n, the actual bane of my existence.

Pulaski Skyway.

287/17/87 in Mahwah. People there drive like morons. Almost died there once.

287 is fine albeit crowded, it's the 24w->287n ramp that is a crime against humanity

>west bound end of 24 getting onto 287 north

This section of roadway was actually how I first learned that the government does not actually care about fixing our problems. Might be the most frustrating section of roadway in the country and it's been that way every weekday for the last 30 years. The worst part is that it would be trivial to add another lane, there's literally room to do it. The officials who have neglected that section for this long should go to jail.

Yup, so 2040s or 2050s we should be good to go.

NJ you have 55-65 mph speed limits on narrow curvy roads, and people are pushing 85-90 pretty regularly, occasionally you see 100+. Somewhere like Kansas you have 75mph speed limits on empty interstates, where 85-90 is just not that fast.

In the full video of the interview with him, he explains that while the city will get him housing if he asks for it, he prefers this over the mini-homes offered by the city, since he views the city's housing as controlling and oppressive.

78 in NJ is a similar principle. You give a car length in front of you and someone will take it. What’s yours is mine.

Because you’re in the road. When I see a guy flip on his hazards in traffic, I’m probably thinking that something broke and he’s pulling over, or something else is wrong. My first instinct isn’t “oh he’s announcing he’s braking” because brake lights already announce that.

Hazard lights can indicate a variety of things (and basically never indicate "we're stopping now"), brake lights automatically indicate "we're stopping now". You do not want to distract people from the brake lights. People are trained to hit the brakes when they see red, you do not want to confuse them by adding more flashing lights. If you want to get people's attention, pump the brakes. Please never use the hazards to indicate that traffic is slowing down.

Any "rules" about following distance are impractical and honestly not very useful. Follow at a distance where you can stop if you need to. Lots of things effect this, such as speed, road conditions, how awake you are, how far ahead you're looking, etc. There's no magic rule for how far you should follow.

If I'm on I-91 in rural Vermont in a snowstorm at 11pm, I'm leaving 50 car lengths between me and the guy in front of me. If I'm on I-78 in suburban NJ and high on caffeine and have a bunch of people trying to cut into my lane right in front of me, I'm following at less than 5 car lengths. It's situational.

Probably 4 points. Is the ticket for "speeding 15-30mph over the limit"?

I’ve noticed this too. Areas within 5-10 miles of the Turnpike vote blue. The others mostly vote red.

Exactly. Jersey is a piece of trash but it's our piece of trash, if I hear anyone else calling it a piece of trash, I'm gonna put them in the damn trash..

I like the PATH a lot (and it seems more reliable than POS NJtransit) but it's a lot worse when you have to connect trains. Check about driving further into Jersey City to catch a train, or NJTransit.

> If Canada had New York's climate and accessibility to the shore

The climate part already exists in the Okanagan already and climate+shore are basically the same on Vancouver Island.

Contrary to popular belief, way more Canadians immigrate to the US than the other way around, mostly because Canadians tend to take home a lot less money. So yeah, solid no from me.