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Get that damn Yugo off the road!
By adamg on Wed, 02/28/2007 - 1:47pm
Cindy and Jeff highlight why you might be stuck in traffic even if there is no obvious fenda-benda up ahead. Most are pretty familiar to anybody who enjoys traffic on the 3s (and who doesn't?): solar glare, residual backups, vice-presidential motorcades at rush hour, etc., but they also list: Hills. Hills? Apparently, they drive Yugos or 1960s-era VW microbuses loaded with cinderblocks or something:
... Even a gradual upward incline can, given the proper circumstances, slow traffic flow, especially for those of us driving small, somewhat underpowered vehicles. It can be difficult to maintain highway speed going uphill. If you've ever driven Route 128 South in Burlington going uphill near Route 3 you know what I mean. ...
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Slow Traffic on Hills
Maybe no one you know drives microbuses or Nash Ramblers anymore, but Big Scary Trucks weighted down to near capacity go REAL slow up small inclines, especially in stop and go traffic.
Oh, yeah, trucks
Good point.
Route 2
One of the worst is Route 2 west going into Arlington. I used to have to climb that in a VW bug, and it just couldn't do much over 50 going up that thing.
A Toyota Tercel wasn't much better
If I wanted to still be going 55 by the time I reached the top of that hill, I needed to begin the hill at 65.
Yeah, route 2
The first time I found that hill I was on a bicycle ride during a February thaw just before Alewife Station was opened. It's a tough place to start the bicycling season when you aren't expecting a hill.
When I first had a commute that included route 2, the wife and I were both driving Diesel VW Rabbits. That is a seriously tough hill for a 50HP car. Fortunately, these days my zoomzoom minivan purrs right up the hill when we're heading west to go snowboarding.