Dear Dr.
Traffic jam: Thank you for your invitation to suggest information on the highway e-sign board. [Dr.
Deadlock of April 5Here are a few.
What I like most is the first one. →Drive right —
Turn left → dim headlights in traffic → centralized driving → turn on the turn light before turning in St Seymour strangkin
Michaels DG: The first one, or a variant of it, was welcomed by many travellers who responded to my request asking what advice they would offer to each other through the e-message board.
But when the sun goes dark, the driver is obsessed with having other drivers turn on the lights. Dear Dr.
Traffic jam: on the electronic sign of the capital's detour highway, the most helpful thing is "the lights are on!
"Of course, the person in charge of them can know when it rains or has fog, and even turn on the" light "at sunset "! ” sign.
Some of the things you mentioned
For example, parking for school buses
It is not suitable for the detour road as it will not happen there and will be distracting.
New Carrollton DG Gretchen Dunn: it's getting closer to the standards that the highway department follows.
The information with the highest priority should be relevant to the current situation and minimize distractions.
Another traveler suggested: accident?
Moving ITThis is an effort to have drivers who meet each other's Fender move their vehicle over their shoulders instead of leaving them in the collision position so that the lane can be cleared.
A Epistle author combines some popular views on safety and politeness. Dear Dr.
Traffic jam: keep it right except through. →Running late? Slow down!
This is your problem.
Not someone else.
Remember the polite wave :-)C.
Jill Moore, Severna Park DG: many of us have a lot of things we want to share.
Longer messages can take several screens to display, something the real message author is trying to avoid.
Anything that lures drivers to slow down reading can lead to congestion and reduce safety.
While many readers have responded to the dream of posting information under the lights, others are pessimistic about the concept. Dear Dr.
Traffic jam: you list safety tips that may be displayed on an electronic billboard or announced on the radio, noting that these tips are something that most drivers may have never seen after passing a driving test.
While it's commendable to post these tips, I don't understand why drivers don't remember the guidelines taught in driver education, let alone want --or expect —
Radio announcer and e-Billboard play again.
I got my driver's license 33 years ago and I still remember and follow all these guidelines as they are the basis for safe driving.
If there is a need to remind drivers how to drive safely, maybe they shouldn't be on the road in the first place.
Dear Dr. Alexander, Maureen Crane.
Traffic jam: I totally disagree with putting safety information on the E-highway signs and I will even question their usefulness!
On Friday, the Easter weekend, I opened a route that I have traveled countless times: from Delaware Memorial Bridge to Interstate 95 in Alexandria.
I have encountered many traffic conditions during my trip and I can't remember having been helped by these signs.
On Good Friday, I can swear, in fact, because I-
The South between Interstate 95 and Baltimore.
The backup lasted a few miles and was cleared only after we passed an electronic sign near the Chesapeake building in Maryland, with the words "lots ".
Minor delays are expected. Keep alert.
"I have been greatly delayed. And then stop-and-
Traffic has been backed up for several miles and began to flow.
We all know what I'm thinking here: This sign is a major factor in causing traffic jams.
Yes, while I was driving at noon, I had other delays caused by obvious things like disabled vehicles or lane closures, but none of them were longer than that.
If you pay attention, you always notice the brake lights when people try to read the signs and drive at the same time.
It is difficult to see and read information at this speed and the number of cars on the road.
I would say that it is dangerous and irresponsible to suggest that these signs try to teach responsible and safe driving skills to drivers driving at high speeds on crowded highways.
It's ridiculous!
I am grateful to the Maryland highway administration for limiting this information.
I just hope they can limit more.
Alexander DG Cindy dark: Actually, there's a lot to be said in very few words --
At least, on the message board.
The Federal Highway Administration Memorandum on the use of variable information signs provides some good guidance: The information displayed "should be limited to managing travel, controlling and diverting traffic, identifying current and expected road conditions, or regulate the passage of a particular lane or the entire road.
But the guidance of the federal government also provides some leeway for the highway department to provide drivers with other meaningful and useful information.
For example, "providing travel time information is a good way to inform the driver of the current situation in a way that is easy to explain and understand.
"This is pretty much the approach that the Maryland highway administration outlined to me when we started the conversation, which makes sense.
In order for the logo program to help, this information should be limited to what they need to know when they move their eyes off the road to read.