re: Causeway shut down southbound.

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not much you can do about people falling asleep on that bridge.

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Maybe they can put some electronic signs that tell you a story or jokes when driving. If they are suspenseful then you would be too excited to sleep.

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quote: not much you can do about people falling asleep on that bridge.

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One more thought. Have the police patrol actually patrol. Is easy to figure out where they are when they're parked in the crossover all of the time. Nobel idea I know.

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Regular patrolling would actually do more harm than good... if you have any experience on the bridge you would know why.

Traffic cameras that are easily relocated?

Maybe not traditional, but you can get your day in "court" by coming in and arguing at the other end?

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I put my CC on 70. I am passing someone, I am in the left lane. Some idiot comes up behind me at 75. I get over to the right to let him pass. About that time we start getting close to a crossover so idiot passing me slows down to 60-65 staying on side of me, jamming me behind another slower car in the right lane and then now 3 more cars are passing me. About 10 minutes later I come up behind the first idiot who is now going 60 because they are talking on their phone or texting. I pass them and we repeat the same thing sequence all the way across the damn bridge.

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This all truth!!!

I've never ever been pulled over with the cruise set at 70-71mph. I do this about 90% of my trips across... Managing the crossover freakouts is an art.

I know assholes who consistently get up to 80 or 85 between crossovers, and then rapidly decelerate to 65 at each crossover. It's fricking moronic...

At the end of the trip, you've saved what? About two or three minutes? (maybe!) but you're motion sick and are a nervous wreck from calculating the ever changing odds of getting busted or killed.

Driving 65 for 24 miles only takes a little over 22 minutes. (I know the speed limit is reduced at the end of both spans. Maybe it takes 23 or 24 minutes to cross at the posted speed limit...) The whole causeway commute would be much safer if everyone drove the speed limit and wasn't trying to fulfill their inner-NASCAR fantasies by driving up the arse of the car in front of them. Even if, God forbid, that vehicle is in the left lane.

This.

RaIse them (with a non-competed, sole source contract, SOP for the Causeway) as high as you want, it won't make people into better drivers.

They have the design to raise the railing. Only problem is the cost at $50-60 M. If they raise the tolls people will go nuts so there is not good way to fund it now.