10-95 Merger

[urbanlibertarian]

north miami, my suggestion was in re of the post below:

In the morning, unless you want to add about 10-12 minutes to your commute... you are essentially forced to cross over three lanes of traffic to get to the two far left lanes feeding I-10 East to I-95 South if you are merging into the highway from the Roosevelt on-ramp.  If you stay in the single lane to the right(that serves THREE lanes of feeder traffic) I have timed over a two-week period a 10-12 minute difference in commute time when compared to making the wayward lane dance to the left.

BTW, leaving at 10 minutes to 8 today, I arrived to work off Gate Parkway at 8:48AM.  That's a 58 minute commute, and I saw no evidence of an accident... just a bunch of Road Rangers trucks and two cement mixers blocking off lanes at the base of the Fuller Warren.  I hope there wasn't an accident b/c that would suck if someone is hurt... but all I see is a monsterosity of a money pit built that made no difference whatsoever to traffic.  I'm beginning to think I would literally pay MORE than I do in gas every month to ride commuter rail instead of going through all this GD traffic!!

[fieldafm]

fieldafm, should folks like you going from Roosevelt to 95 south consider using the newly improved McDuff Av to get on 10 east to 95 south?

That's a REALLY good idea. I may try that on Tuesday(off Monday).  I'll get back to you and let you know.

I tried snapping a picture of the difference today, but traffic flow was running fairly swiftly on the left hand lanes so it was better to pay attention to actually driving so as not to cause an accident than focus on some social experiment, lol.

Ive been going into work earlier than normal this week, but have been using the McDuff onramp instead of the awful Roosevelt conundrum all week and its been a pretty big difference.  We'll see if that continues when I stop going to work early.

Thank you for the suggestion!

[iluvolives]

I'm confused- Roosevelt turns into the McDuff on ramp. How else would you go?

[ricker]

^^
olives,
Are you suggesting local and nonlocal motorists should actively observe the overhead signs?
At one time in the recent past (as evidenced by google streetview/, may've since been updated?idk idc) ;
when traveling north on 17, over Edgewood, ahead the sign from L to R =
[I-10W  Post St.], [I-10E  95].

Seems they SHOULD read:
Lane 1
[I-10West via McDuff, North Riverside] indicating that you can either make a left at what is NOW IslandBar, OR continue in your lane if that particualr left stacking/turn lane is too congested for your liking and simply make a left at the BP/Chevron which also McDuff.
NEXT, Lane 2 overhead:
[I-10 East, Stockton Street, Downtown, 95, Lane Ends 1mile. MERGE LEFT]

[ricker]

and Oh yeah.  Also on 17n...
once north of the McDuff intersection, new overhead panel indicating 95 S bound traffic remain in LANE 1!
Lane 2 exits at Stockton.
Lane 1 ends at Forest St. merge left one lane to acces DT and 95N.
SIMPLE

[ricker]

^
olives, sorry I only now more fully understand the disconnect above.
I believe the earlier recommendation to fieldafm was to use McDuff Avenue to access I-10 East instead of the Roosevelt connector
Getting on I-10 East at a point west of- and therefore outside of the interchange- project limits so as to take advantage of the length of road ahead in eliminating the 3 lane change now necessary to avoid the single lane access to 95SOUTH between Stockton and Forest.
Single lane to 95 S still backs up herrondously and will continue to do so during overland bridge replacement through east SanMarco, Hendricks closure etc.

folks from northbound 17 prefer to dart over to Lanes 1 and 2 of 10E to cross the river rather than use the lane they're in.  Adding 12 minutes to your commute time? maybe. sideswiping a bus/ considerably longer.

[north miami]

Evidence of the mad dart to the far left can now be seen via telling skid marks.........

I witnessed such a dash Sunday-like in a movie chase scene.

It will be interesting to monitor accident incidents.

More descriptive signage seems in order.

[fieldafm]

I have now been using McDuff to get on I-10 every morning and its quicker and safer than the mess at the Roosevelt on ramp.

[videojon]

On a bright note, I get on 10E to 95N from Roosevelt every morning and things are fine.

[Dog Walker]

Sounds like the voices complaining about the "secret" exit from I-10 to I-95 South have been heard.

For the past two days there has been a crew putting up the foundation for a new, big traffic sign over the exit.  The sign will probably go up next week after the concrete has hardened.  Hope it doesn't cause confusion for people who are already in the correct lanes on the left.

[videojon]

Now that we're several months out, does this interchange seem to be a failure or a success? Or is it too soon to tell? I can't help to notice that there are still heavy backups early in the morning which originally were said to be because of drivers unfamiliar with the new traffic patterns. Now there should be no excuse though.

[Dog Walker]

It looks like a lot of the backup in the right-most I-95 lane is partially caused by people moving right from the middle lanes, where they should go left instead. 

The rapid merges after you get onto I-95 might also have something to do with it.

[Kay]

Well, if you are going 95 N from Stockton you've got to make at least 5 lane changes to continue on 95 N.  I hate it.  But then I believe they could have downsized 95 going through town because of 295, 9A & B.

[Dog Walker]

Kay,  Try getting on a couple of blocks away on the Forest St. entrance to go I-95 North.  It's much easier and less tense making.

[RiversideLoki]

In my experience, the problem has been everyone crowding up on that "secret" right side exit... what I think would probably alleviate it is some signage further down I-10 telling people "Hey, stay in these damn lanes to go 95 south." Or maybe do something for the I-17 merger signage. (That Stockton exit always screws things up. People trying to cut traffic that's piling up for the 95 south exit. Trying to merge for 95 north. It's just a wreck on heavy traffic days.)