Lincoln to get another interesting interchange

huKSer said:
Just before I left Omaha in 1999 Dodge St just west of I-680 was going to get a "fly over" intersection - any word on how that turned on?
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Dodge Street has an elevated roadway from about 120th to just east of the 680 interchange. If you need to get to the 114th/Dodge area you take the low road with stoplights and access to surface streets. If you want to breeze right through that area you stay on the overpass and skip all of that traffic. It's pretty slick.

 
knapplc said:
huKSer said:
Just before I left Omaha in 1999 Dodge St just west of I-680 was going to get a "fly over" intersection - any word on how that turned on?
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Dodge Street has an elevated roadway from about 120th to just east of the 680 interchange. If you need to get to the 114th/Dodge area you take the low road with stoplights and access to surface streets. If you want to breeze right through that area you stay on the overpass and skip all of that traffic. It's pretty slick.
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I grew up basically on 120th and Dodge in Omaha. Dodge Street was a total cluster eff from I-680 to 120th, especially from 108th to 114th. That "overpass" they put in is great.
 
The Superior roundabout was/is an incredible cluster you-know-what and waste of money, which started out - in theory - as a good idea. It quickly turned into a dangerous disaster because people couldn't figure it out.

I'm glad that I'm planning to move out of Lincoln this year, because this Old Cheney roundabout doesn't appear to have an easy way to be fixed or adjusted if it fails. What's going to happen if similar or worse crash statistics pop up like they did on Superior?

I also think Lincoln has some of the dumbest drivers I've ever seen. Bigger cities have aggressive driving habits - Lincoln has dumb driving habits.

 
ColoradoHusk said:
knapplc said:
huKSer said:
Just before I left Omaha in 1999 Dodge St just west of I-680 was going to get a "fly over" intersection - any word on how that turned on?
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Dodge Street has an elevated roadway from about 120th to just east of the 680 interchange. If you need to get to the 114th/Dodge area you take the low road with stoplights and access to surface streets. If you want to breeze right through that area you stay on the overpass and skip all of that traffic. It's pretty slick.
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I grew up basically on 120th and Dodge in Omaha. Dodge Street was a total cluster eff from I-680 to 120th, especially from 108th to 114th. That "overpass" they put in is great.
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I grew up right off of 99th and Fort, and that overpass is just incredible. The fact that I can get from my parents place to Village Point or anywhere out west in about 15 minutes is awesome.

That same distance in Lincoln would take me 30-45 minutes.

Maybe Lincoln should just add overpasses everywhere.

 
Enhance89 said:
The Superior roundabout was/is an incredible cluster you-know-what and waste of money, which started out - in theory - as a good idea. It quickly turned into a dangerous disaster because people couldn't figure it out.

I'm glad that I'm planning to move out of Lincoln this year, because this Old Cheney roundabout doesn't appear to have an easy way to be fixed or adjusted if it fails. What's going to happen if similar or worse crash statistics pop up like they did on Superior?

I also think Lincoln has some of the dumbest drivers I've ever seen. Bigger cities have aggressive driving habits - Lincoln has dumb driving habits.
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You haven't seen dumb until you've been in Michigan. If they bother to use a turn signal, it's after they've already changed lanes. People stomp on the brakes if they even think there is an emergency vehicle ahead. They merge onto the freeway, which is 70mph, going 40 to 50... Everyone drives in the left lane even if they're going 15 under... Just plain stupid!
I-75 through Detroit (it's the main drag to get north and south) is backed up everyday if for no other reason than someo e tapped their brakes.

 
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ZRod said:
Enhance89 said:
The Superior roundabout was/is an incredible cluster you-know-what and waste of money, which started out - in theory - as a good idea. It quickly turned into a dangerous disaster because people couldn't figure it out.

I'm glad that I'm planning to move out of Lincoln this year, because this Old Cheney roundabout doesn't appear to have an easy way to be fixed or adjusted if it fails. What's going to happen if similar or worse crash statistics pop up like they did on Superior?

I also think Lincoln has some of the dumbest drivers I've ever seen. Bigger cities have aggressive driving habits - Lincoln has dumb driving habits.
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You haven't seen dumb until you've been in Michigan. If they bother to use a turn signal, it's after they've already changed lanes. People stomp on the brakes if they even think there is an emergency vehicle ahead. They merge onto the freeway, which is 70mph, going 40 to 50... Everyone drives in the left lane even if they're going 15 under... Just plain stupid!
I-75 through Detroit (it's the main drag to get north and south) is backed up everyday if for no other reason than someo e tapped their brakes.
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I didn't know anybody still lived in Detroit.

 
huKSer said:
ZRod said:
Enhance89 said:
The Superior roundabout was/is an incredible cluster you-know-what and waste of money, which started out - in theory - as a good idea. It quickly turned into a dangerous disaster because people couldn't figure it out.

I'm glad that I'm planning to move out of Lincoln this year, because this Old Cheney roundabout doesn't appear to have an easy way to be fixed or adjusted if it fails. What's going to happen if similar or worse crash statistics pop up like they did on Superior?

I also think Lincoln has some of the dumbest drivers I've ever seen. Bigger cities have aggressive driving habits - Lincoln has dumb driving habits.
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You haven't seen dumb until you've been in Michigan. If they bother to use a turn signal, it's after they've already changed lanes. People stomp on the brakes if they even think there is an emergency vehicle ahead. They merge onto the freeway, which is 70mph, going 40 to 50... Everyone drives in the left lane even if they're going 15 under... Just plain stupid!I-75 through Detroit (it's the main drag to get north and south) is backed up everyday if for no other reason than someo e tapped their brakes.
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I didn't know anybody still lived in Detroit.
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Detroit is an interesting place, it's exactly what you think it is, and it isn't what you think it is. There's some gentrification going on. It's a growing place again, but there's still tons and tons of abandoned areas.
 
ZRod said:
Enhance89 said:
The Superior roundabout was/is an incredible cluster you-know-what and waste of money, which started out - in theory - as a good idea. It quickly turned into a dangerous disaster because people couldn't figure it out.

I'm glad that I'm planning to move out of Lincoln this year, because this Old Cheney roundabout doesn't appear to have an easy way to be fixed or adjusted if it fails. What's going to happen if similar or worse crash statistics pop up like they did on Superior?

I also think Lincoln has some of the dumbest drivers I've ever seen. Bigger cities have aggressive driving habits - Lincoln has dumb driving habits.
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You haven't seen dumb until you've been in Michigan. If they bother to use a turn signal, it's after they've already changed lanes. People stomp on the brakes if they even think there is an emergency vehicle ahead. They merge onto the freeway, which is 70mph, going 40 to 50... Everyone drives in the left lane even if they're going 15 under... Just plain stupid!
I-75 through Detroit (it's the main drag to get north and south) is backed up everyday if for no other reason than someo e tapped their brakes.
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One thing I've noticed from Lincoln drivers is a complete lack of situational awareness. Driving 5-10 miles under the speed limit, turning onto a busy road in front of oncoming traffic, not turning right on red lights (which is a huge driving pet peeve of mine) and a general lack of understanding of the world around them.

I don't know much about Michigan or Detroit, but I think part of the stupidity with Lincoln drivers is based on the stupidity of the road system. There's really no expressway system anywhere in this city to match the growing population, and the highways spaced throughout the city are over-encumbered with traffic and traffic lights.

 
Lincoln is pretty tame and mild mannered. When I come back now I look like an a-hole when I drive because of how aggressive I have to be in the D.

You're right though. The biggest problem is no express ways. But at the same time its kind of nice (less noise, less concrete...).

 
Lincoln really doesn't have it that bad. You've got your fair share of country bumpkins and plain idiot drivers, but that's true anywhere. I can't tell if it's 'safer' or not, but living in two huge metro areas in Atlanta and Chicago, people just kind of do whatever the heck they want on the road, and other people expect them to so it's kind of "allowed" without people getting super pissy and road ragey about it. Very interesting contrast to growing up in small town Nebraska.

 
NUance said:
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They finally settled on a design!
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Last time I was on that my GPS got into an arguement with herself...Then every 25 seconds gave me the attitude (''Recalculating'')

 
Landlord of Memorial Stadium said:
Lincoln really doesn't have it that bad. You've got your fair share of country bumpkins and plain idiot drivers, but that's true anywhere. I can't tell if it's 'safer' or not, but living in two huge metro areas in Atlanta and Chicago, people just kind of do whatever the heck they want on the road, and other people expect them to so it's kind of "allowed" without people getting super pissy and road ragey about it. Very interesting contrast to growing up in small town Nebraska.
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Main difference I see in Phoenix is nobody took any kind of Driver's Safety program and only out of staters use their turn signals..

 
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