We tried to be hopeful about the new traffic pattern but after almost facing mortality up close tonight after encountering a traffic barrel in the road on newly divided highway we have really had it.
What insane group of highly paid consultants designed this cluster expletive expletive. No one is using the highly touted bridge to Bel Air except to bypass the now --and one would guess forever-- jam packed conditions at the Tollgate/Emmorton Road "exit" of 24 to make an illegal u-turn.
Since the new traffic pattern emerged we have personally experienced the following:
** sideswiped while trying to "merge" onto traffic speeding down the hill on 24 to exit at 95 south. Merging out of Constant Friendship there is nowhere to go except into the line of traffic trying merge over and presumably kill you.
** watched numerous people try to drive over the median to get to the Tollgate Road area.
*** saw someone run into barrel dividing the new area.
*** watched dozens and dozens of vehicles come up the hill on 24 and make an illegal u-turn at the light at Singer to get to Walmart/Target, etc.
*** traffic backed up to Crisfield Drive from the light at Constant Friendship.
So who was this designed for? Not for the thousands and thousands of Wegman's customers who are forced to take the Tollgate exit and block all the lanes coming down the hill at Emmorton Road to try to get to 95.
Definitely not, as if anything is ever built to benefit the residents of Abingdon Ha!, for those of us here in Abingdon.
Who to complain to? Joe Woods? David Craig? The MTA? Who cares? It's done. I guess we should just say thank you that they didn't just bulldoze us out of here for the convenience of people trying to get out of Bel Air.
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That intersection makes me crazy. I would rather go out of my way than use it. I don't understand what the so-called experts were thinking. But then those same experts decided that Rt 24 would be a development area. For some reason they thought that developers wouldn't bother with the rest of the county. I'm not sure why. Forest Hill is also a mess. The difference there is it is not near I95. I'm just glad we can avoid that whole mess. We take the back way to Wegman's from where we live. I would rather drive a little out of the way than subject myself to the mess that is that intersection. Harford County decided to make Rt 24 the "development corridor." Someone apparently thought that developers wouldn't want to go anywhere else. All you have to do is look around Bel Air and Forest Hill for that. I've lived here since 1979 and even then saw the disdain in a lot of people's eyes for anyone from Abingdon. A lot of the county puts Abingdon right in there with Edgewood, Aberdeen and Joppatowne. I was pleasantly surprised when the county bought part of the Wheel Rd property for open space. I was dreading new houses and yet more strip malls with the junk stores. I do love having a Wegman's nearby. At least I can get in there from the rear entrance. Glad to see you posting again.
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