I hardly ever go to Lawn Guyland, and take the LIRR on almost all the rare occasions when I do go. The driving is terrible there. Perhaps coincidentally, it's where they keep all the downstate New Yorkers who are Republicans and who can't stomach Staten Island.
Friday I took my mother to her 9:45am doctor's appointment about a mile from her house on Staten Island, and drove back like a bat out of hell at 20mph through a 32F "wintry mix" that looked like snow and felt like cooking grease. At the first stop sign, my brakes made a horror-movie noise that I'd never heard from them before and barely made it into the intersection. I was really really careful after that.
Almost everyone was going very slowly all the way back into NJ, except for a few SUV's that passed me. (20-25mph on the Staten Island Expressway is normal, but the scarcity of cars was not normal. Still, only those few SUV's took advantage of it.)
Just over the Bayonne Bridge, I noticed how fast the big heavy salt trucks were going, and wished I could do the same in my Honda. Then I heard on the traffic report that a different highway in NJ was bollixed up to the point of disuse because a salt truck hit an overpass and rolled over.
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Date: 2008-12-21 08:30 pm (UTC)Friday I took my mother to her 9:45am doctor's appointment about a mile from her house on Staten Island, and drove back like a bat out of hell at 20mph through a 32F "wintry mix" that looked like snow and felt like cooking grease. At the first stop sign, my brakes made a horror-movie noise that I'd never heard from them before and barely made it into the intersection. I was really really careful after that.
Almost everyone was going very slowly all the way back into NJ, except for a few SUV's that passed me. (20-25mph on the Staten Island Expressway is normal, but the scarcity of cars was not normal. Still, only those few SUV's took advantage of it.)
Just over the Bayonne Bridge, I noticed how fast the big heavy salt trucks were going, and wished I could do the same in my Honda. Then I heard on the traffic report that a different highway in NJ was bollixed up to the point of disuse because a salt truck hit an overpass and rolled over.