Ladies and Gentlemen (and I use those words loosely), Scott en Aztlán
said in rec.autos.driving:

I went out fo a pizza a little while ago and crossed East Coast
America's Favorite Road (I-95) and it was slammed to a stop both north
and southbound. Took a little ride afterward over to Jekyll Island to
see their x-mas display and the causeway over was almost (but not quite)
deserted except for this one State Trooper who was running revenue
patrol. He had snagged a victim both going on and when I was driving off
the island.

I heard about that on the Clinton News Network this morning. They are
going to be out there ruining alot of thanksgiving trips for people with
their non-safety initiative. Wonder if they will ever take the time to
pull over a few truly dangerous drivers like sloths and LLB's?

And it won't do a bit of good as far as saving lives because the
penalties are so light. People just laugh and continue speeding and
DUIing.

You want to save lives then stop the criminal coddling. 80 in a 60
should be punished with a $2000 fine and a week in the can.  Now that
would prevent highway murders.

I heard that on NPR this afternoon. They also called I-40 "The National
Road" .

At about 8:45pm when I came home up Mariposa Road, which parallels the 15
through southern Victorville, I saw that the backup started at Palmdale.
Pretty shocking - I thought it would have been a lot more backed up.

It took my vanpool about 2-1/2 hours to go from Oakland to Davis this
afternoon, about an hour longer than usual.

I was expecting worse.  Perhaps everyone left earlier, or will leave
tomorrow.  Is there an online archive of traffic jam information for
northern California?

Well, *I'm* glad I was driving this weekend. Go to take my 911 Turbo out on
the open road for the first time!

- B

Largely propaganda, IMHO.  I am not at all sure that some of the
Western states, in particular, could muster that many troopers
outright, never mind the wisdom of leaving their other highways
unpatrolled to concentrate on just one.

Haven't seen any evidence of the "DWI Superblitz" that was widely
advertised in my area, either,  although I did encounter a couple of
drivers who might've blown  interesting numbers.

They could have started with the guy who was tailgating me at
intermittent-headlight-disappearance raneg for ten miles of 45 mph, one
lane each way separated by a palisade of reflector sticks, no-passing
and hardly-any-shoulder construction zone (wherein I was going the same
speed as the long stick of  people in front of me and had the temerity
to follow at a prudent distance).  When the detour retoured into
regular Interstate, my antagonist turned out to be a Chevy pickup
stacked high with hay bales.  Well, why didn't he just flip the CB
radio to PA mode and say something?  "Outta my way, city boy -- this
here's a hay EMERGENCY!"

I am not sure how Thanksgiving rates among your drinking holidays
anyway.  There sure seemed to be a lot of people heading for Grandma's
at high speed  with one eye on the cell phone and the other on their
watch, though, maybe in a car with a lot more load in and on it than
they're used to, which can all be an interesting combination.

Anyway, here I am back home, and as a bus driver I know likes to put
it, if you're looking down at the grass, things could be worse...

--Joe

[holiday traffic]

Well hey, I'd have thought you'd have been all for it.  After all, they
were just enforcing those laws you claim to be so reverent about, right?

(There had to have been a few registration scofflaws in the mix...)

Geoff