Worst state in the NorthEast and Mid-Atl to drive through on I-95??

[madinmaryland]

Well here goes..

:popcorn:

[cwydro]

1. oh boy.

[madinmaryland]

4. ..

Heh heh!

[cwydro]

14. You are evil today.

[Chan790]

2. DC is not a state.

Also the words "DC", "drive" and "I-95" are mutually-exclusive. Every DC native knows that you'll get to your destination faster if you just put the car in park, get out and walk.

[elleng]

3. NOT if you're on 95!

:thumbsdown:

[arcadian]

7. Actually you can avoid D.C. almost entirely on I-95

I think there is a small part of the Potomac the Wilson Bridge goes over that D.C. owns but that is about it.

[Chan790]

9. Why am I rembering this as being nightmarish?

Is 95 particularly bad in No.VA or S. MD? I just remember that by the end of freshman year of college I had decided to never get on 95 again.

[madinmaryland]

11. The beltway around DC clogs it up both in So-MD, and NoVa.

[arcadian]

15. I-95 is probably the most travelled Interstate corridor.

The trucks using the interstate take it over and it is wall to wall for almost it's entire length. It's not like other interstates where you get some alone time away from other traffic. There really is about zero wiggle room.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

17. That's the Beltway - not 95 -

around here, 95 ends where 495 begins, because Marion Barry, years ago, screwed with the federal funding that would have sent 95 through the District of Columbia.

So, inside the Beltway (495), 95 is called 395, but it ends that the 14th Street Bridge, entering DC.

Then, you make your way through DC on surface streets, get on New York Avenue, NE, which is also Route 50, and you follow that out to 495, and then you can pick up 95 going north.

Confused yet?

I don't think there's any part of DC on the Wilson Bridge part of the Beltway, since it goes from Virginia to MD, and I think it's a bit east for DC, but you may be right. It's a strange situation all around ..............

[arcadian]

19. You are correct about the 495-95-395 thing.

Everybody going north bound(New york, Boston) uses 495 over the Wilson Bridge so 495 is kind of de facto I-95 there. Check out Jones Point, the boundary marker for the old D.C. square is under a pier under the lighthouse, right at waterline. So, there is that tiny bit of the Potomac, at that point part of D.C. which the Wislon bridge goes over, I think that is the only part of D.C. touched by the Beltway.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

21. They built a whole new Wilson Bridge,

and a lot of the old stuff on both sides of the River were demolished. It was only finished about a year ago - a huge project.

I wonder if that marker is still there.................

[LynneSin]

5. I voted New Jersey but Massachusetts is a close 2nd

I'm driving 70MPH and I'm being passed by people driving on the side of the road

[handmade34]

6. I love that in Mass, especially around Boston

it is perfectly ok to drive in the break-down lane during prescribed hours. I would have to say NJ is the worst drive.

[mainegreen]

8. Connecticut. I *always* get stuck in god damned traffic jams in Connecticut.

[conscious evolution]

22. Same here

EVERY time I have taken 95 thru conn i hit a massive traffic jam.Without fail.

[madinmaryland]

27. I lived along coastal CT for 15 years and always commuted into NYC by train.

It was nice to have a couple of beers on the way home, while watching the folks stuck on I-95!!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. New Jersey.....besides the obvious....

Signage for 95 actually disappears for a while around Trenton. I actually got lost and ended up inadvertantly going south for a half hour where I was supposed to go north.

Screwy state. But what do you expect for a place where they forbid you from turning left?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

18. You can't pump your own gas, either.....

Don't forget that.

But at least car inspections are free............

[Moondog]

35. New Jersey is by far the worst stretch of I-95. Not even close.

[Forkboy]

12. Speed trap wise, Maryland.

Crazy fucker driving like a bullet fired up the ass of a bat out of Hell, Mass.

[madinmaryland]

13. It's the only way we can recoup the money lost to those Delaware residents avoiding

our toll over the Susquehanna river.

:grr:

[Forkboy]

16. I ain't getting in the middle of this one.

:rofl:

[LynneSin]

23. Speedtraps are the least of your worries - the racist cops are dangerous

I shit you not, a co-worker (African-American) was coming home from BWI late one night. He and his wife were returning from a Las Vegas vacation. In the trunk were their suitcases and gifts for their kids (who were staying with granny for the week). They had a late flight home from Vegas and didn't get out of the airport until midnight. Somewhere in NE Maryland he was pulled over in a speedtrap even though he swears he wasn't going that fast. I know the guy, politest person you'd ever meet. Graduated from a top university and working at a top company here in Delaware. And yet he and his wife were shoved up against the car and they went thru their luggage and even ripped open a stuffed animal toy.

I told him he needs to get the lawyers involved but he was able to get the ticket dropped. Personally he should have sued their asses.

[madinmaryland]

25. I agree with you on that..

In the planned community that I live in, which is very diverse, at least 90% of the people I see pulled over are minorities. Though I know the same thing happens in CT and NJ as the lawsuits will prove.

[Renew Deal]

20. Probably Connecticut

I've had more trouble and more delays there than anywhere else. NJ is probably 2nd.

[krispos42]

24. Connecticut

Okay, the tolls in NY and NJ are a hassle, but the sheer morass that is I-95 through Fairfield and New Haven counties makes you want to buy a monster truck and start crushing. 8 hours a day now thraffic is like molasses, and there's not even the excuse of a toll.

[madinmaryland]

26. It's basically two lanes from the NY state line to Stamford, then a windy

three lanes from Stamford to New Haven.

A recipe for disaster!

[bigwillq]

28. Connecticut

Then probably Jersey.

I only say CT because I live there and have to travel that road often. It could be a real pain in the ass.

[Burma Jones]

29. If you're going to leave Northern Virginia out of it.......

I'll have to go with NJ, I know workarounds for Connecticut.

We make the trip from the DC area to NY and back about a half dozen times a year. Bailing out of the Turnpike to get on I-295 is a pretty good idea, but the nightmare that is the lane merge on the Turnpike is about 30 miles or so short of that.

The Delaware Toll Plaza sucks mightily and they really need to get with the whole "tolls in one direction only" bandwagon.

But, the worst traffic jams I've ever experienced have been going south on I-95 just as you get off the Beltway all the way through to Fredericksburg. Conversely, I-95 northbound from Fredericksburg to the Beltway can also be a punishment from hell.

[madinmaryland]

31. I live a half an hour north of dc, and when I used to make runs to CT,

I would take I-83 from Baltimore to Harrisburg, and then I-78 east through Allentown, to I-278 in NJ and then north and around to the Tappan Zee Bridge.

It's about 60 miles further that way, but its about the same timewise and there is only one toll ($1) over the DE river and ($3) over the Tappan Zee!

[Burma Jones]

34. I've done that

now we just try to head north at more opportune times

[BulletproofLandshark]

37. And don't even get me started on Fredericksburg to Richmond.

I try to get to Florida once a year and that's easily the most hellish segment of the trip. It got so bad I started taking the back way down 81 (I live in the Shenandoah Valley) and I've completely given up on the idea of going to Kings Dominion.

[TK421]

30. I don't know, but I got lost in downtown Baltimore ( I'm pretty sure it was there )

took a wrong turn off 95 somewhere ( I still don't know what the hell it was I did wrong ) I somehow ended up going south on 95 instead...don't ask what happened

[madinmaryland]

32. What were you doing in Baltimore??

[TK421]

33. This was back in 2001 when I moved back to PA from Florida

and didn't stop to rest until I reached Virginia :hi:

I took some kind of wrong turn....I couldn't tell you how I ended up down there :shrug:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

36. Rooting for the Orioles, of course!

(Okay, so this could use some updating....But hey, it beats 79....)

[littlebit]

38. As someone who drives

an eighteen wheeler up and down I-95 everyday. I have to say the worse place is from Milford CT down to DE. CT is one big traffic jam and then you get to go play in the Bronx. In seven years of doing this I have yet to go over 30 mph on the cross bronx. I'm not even going to get started on the NJ turnpike. Bunch of no driving jackasses.