Recruiting Forum Off Topic Thread III

[hep]

Houston has the best infrastructure of any big city I’ve been to.

 

[Weezer]

I love Knoxville area but it is a nightmare to get anywhere more than 1-2 miles off the interstate.

Back roads. The benefit of living here is knowing multiple ways to get around.

 

[secking]

Nashville is absolutely horrid to drive in now. The population has far outpaced infrastructure.

Agree, 440 right now is a mess

 

[peaygolf]

Nashville is absolutely horrid to drive in now. The population has far outpaced infrastructure.

 

[secking]

Horrible. Have to go to Vanderbilt Hospital for routine appointments on Monday and I'm dreading it.

Normally, easiest way is 440, get off 21st and it’s 5 min there.

 

[Weezer]

Normally, easiest way is 440, get off 21st and it’s 5 min there.

That's the way I go, but it's the traffic getting into Nashville that's unbearable. Drives me crazy.

 

[cncchris33]

I get paid to deliver people on time. That is your honest assessment, but so is mine. I happen to like Lexington, and the way it is laid out.

I always drive up Richmond rd from 104 to get to New Circle and go from there. Driving to literally every part of the metro area under time constraints may afford me a few more insights, plus I have the added resource of many other professional transit drivers who know the city like the back of their hand down to stoplight times.

The worst place I have ever worked as a transit/courier driver is Pinellas county Florida.

When I lived in Knoxville, I lived in North Knox County (Halls/Ftn City area). If I wanted to get to West Knoxville, it was a straight shot up I640 to I40. No red lights, occasional traffic at the 640/40 interchange, but relatively painless and about a 15 drive. Rush hour excluded, as with most larger metro areas.

There just isn't a direct route like that in Lexington that bypasses all the red lights and slower traffic. New Circle is the best option, but even it has red lights along certain parts.

I guess I don't really take exception with the city infrastructure layout (the wagon wheel) so much as I take exception to them not utilizing the two quickest methods of getting from one side of the city to the other (I75 and I64).

That said, I can agree on Pinellas being terrible to navigate. I'll throw Hillsborough in there, too. Way too much traffic and way too easy to get hemmed in that traffic by accidents because of all the bridges. A bad accident on the Causeway, The Howard Frankland, or Skyway Bridge can foul an entire day up for you.

If you have ever been to Pittsburgh, particularly around downtown, it is my personal least favorite city to drive/navigate. Three rivers converging and bridges to get anywhere and everywhere.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Horrible. Have to go to Vanderbilt Hospital for routine appointments on Monday and I'm dreading it.

I used to have to take a couple of poor messed up kids born with multiple deformities, and their drugged out parents to Vandy childrens for corrective outpatient procedures all the time, one of the little ones was a tiny little 4 year old girl who had already suffered more than 35 procedures in her short life..

I could not stomach the abomination that was that childs father...thankfully his sister that is a very good person and a nurse here at Harlan hospital was able to wrest custody from him...

Anyways...I hated having to come to Vandy early in the AM from either Bowling Green or Knoxville, and usually they got out of recovery just in time for afternoon rush hour traffic leaving...I absolutely hate driving in that metro area.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Back roads. The benefit of living here is knowing multiple ways to get around.

I am from Knoxville..I know them too, but there is no quick way around anywhere away from the Interstates.

 

[Weezer]

I am from Knoxville..I know them too, but there is no quick way around anywhere away from the Interstates.

Eh, I do all right. I guess a lot depends on where you're trying to get to.

 

[KB5252]

Horrible. Have to go to Vanderbilt Hospital for routine appointments on Monday and I'm dreading it.

I avoid it at all costs. The entire southern part of Nashville is nearly impassable now. I moved further away for this reason. Although I'm away from the Nashville traffic I'm 30 miles from The Bammers now and I swear I can smell them from here.

 

[NashVolDavis]

Eh, I do all right. I guess a lot depends on where you're trying to get to.

And where from. Honestly I40 is worse in Knoxville than here, it’s 24, 440, nolensville, etc that gets so bad.

 

[ALLVOL24/7/365]

Agree, 440 right now is a mess

Yeah but they are getting teal close to having 440 completely reworked and the lanes doubled. Will be great for a few years till traffic volume catches up again.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

When I lived in Knoxville, I lived in North Knox County (Halls/Ftn City area). If I wanted to get to West Knoxville, it was a straight shot up I640 to I40. No red lights, occasional traffic at the 640/40 interchange, but relatively painless and about a 15 drive. Rush hour excluded, as with most larger metro areas.

There just isn't a direct route like that in Lexington that bypasses all the red lights and slower traffic. New Circle is the best option, but even it has red lights along certain parts.

I guess I don't really take exception with the city infrastructure layout (the wagon wheel) so much as I take exception to them not utilizing the two quickest methods of getting from one side of the city to the other (I75 and I64).

That said, I can agree on Pinellas being terrible to navigate. I'll throw Hillsborough in there, too. Way too much traffic and way too easy to get hemmed in that traffic by accidents because of all the bridges. A bad accident on the Causeway, The Howard Frankland, or Skyway Bridge can foul an entire day up for you.

If you have ever been to Pittsburgh, particularly around downtown, it is my personal least favorite city to drive/navigate. Three rivers converging and bridges to get anywhere and everywhere.

I just do not agree that Lex is that bad, and the city was laid out long before anybody thought of interstates. A true interstate perimeter circle bypass cutting from say...Richmond road exit 104 to the Hwy 62 exit on Int 64...would relieve much of what your gripes are about, and open up good expansion opportunities much farther out the Tates Ferry rd, Nicholasville rd, Harrodsburg rd and Versailles rd spokes.

I like the wagon wheel concentric spoke layout of Lexington...and like I said I drive for a living.

Not everybody lives close to an interstate.

 

[ALLVOL24/7/365]

I avoid it at all costs. The entire southern part of Nashville is nearly impassable now. I moved further away for this reason. Although I'm away from the Nashville traffic I'm 30 miles from The Bammers now and I swear I can smell them from here.

Chapel Hill, Lewisburg area?

 

[volfaninpa]

Maybe Zach Evans is flipping off the traffic in Nashville AND Lexington.

 

[OHvol40]

When I lived in Knoxville, I lived in North Knox County (Halls/Ftn City area). If I wanted to get to West Knoxville, it was a straight shot up I640 to I40. No red lights, occasional traffic at the 640/40 interchange, but relatively painless and about a 15 drive. Rush hour excluded, as with most larger metro areas.

There just isn't a direct route like that in Lexington that bypasses all the red lights and slower traffic. New Circle is the best option, but even it has red lights along certain parts.

I guess I don't really take exception with the city infrastructure layout (the wagon wheel) so much as I take exception to them not utilizing the two quickest methods of getting from one side of the city to the other (I75 and I64).

That said, I can agree on Pinellas being terrible to navigate. I'll throw Hillsborough in there, too. Way too much traffic and way too easy to get hemmed in that traffic by accidents because of all the bridges. A bad accident on the Causeway, The Howard Frankland, or Skyway Bridge can foul an entire day up for you.

If you have ever been to Pittsburgh, particularly around downtown, it is my personal least favorite city to drive/navigate. Three rivers converging and bridges to get anywhere and everywhere.

I live near Pittsburgh and work in Pittsburgh. Can confirm it is about the worst city to travel in the country.

 

[SweetasSoda]

Maybe Zach Evans is flipping off the traffic in Nashville AND Lexington.

I knew there had to be a reason traffic was the topic in here.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

When I lived in Knoxville, I lived in North Knox County (Halls/Ftn City area). If I wanted to get to West Knoxville, it was a straight shot up I640 to I40. No red lights, occasional traffic at the 640/40 interchange, but relatively painless and about a 15 drive. Rush hour excluded, as with most larger metro areas.

There just isn't a direct route like that in Lexington that bypasses all the red lights and slower traffic. New Circle is the best option, but even it has red lights along certain parts.

I guess I don't really take exception with the city infrastructure layout (the wagon wheel) so much as I take exception to them not utilizing the two quickest methods of getting from one side of the city to the other (I75 and I64).

That said, I can agree on Pinellas being terrible to navigate. I'll throw Hillsborough in there, too. Way too much traffic and way too easy to get hemmed in that traffic by accidents because of all the bridges. A bad accident on the Causeway, The Howard Frankland, or Skyway Bridge can foul an entire day up for you.

If you have ever been to Pittsburgh, particularly around downtown, it is my personal least favorite city to drive/navigate. Three rivers converging and bridges to get anywhere and everywhere.

I drove for Autonation Parts center in Clearwater. When I had the Palmetto-Bradenton-Ruskin northwards to Apollo Beach route I had to cross the Skyway out and in every day, and when I got moved to the South Tampa-Brandon-Valrico route I had to cross the HF early morning out and afternoon rush hour in every day and it was a nightmare...but I made pretty good money..lol. I got paid by the hour so I did not mind traffic at the end of the day coming back in to the warehouse...lol.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Eh, I do all right. I guess a lot depends on where you're trying to get to.

True

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I can't wait till the mod squad has to move all this crap to the OT...lol. I figured they needed something to do to feel useful..

 

[VolnJC]

I knew there had to be a reason traffic was the topic in here.

I'll take the blame for that...lol....Zach had mentioned that he was surprised that Tennessee wasn't "country" and I posted that Knoxville was actually one of the larger cities in the SEC...it took an off ramp to traffic issues

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I'll take the blame for that...lol....Zach had mentioned that he was surprised that Tennessee wasn't "country" and I posted that Knoxville was actually one of the larger cities in the SEC...it took an off ramp to traffic issues

 

[ALLVOL24/7/365]

Do you know when it’s supposed to be completed? So, 4 lanes each way? That’d be nice

By end of July and they are on schedule to complete ontime. Contractor is pulling equipment off the job and sending it to Little Rock and a couple of other jobs they have coming up in other parts of the country.

 

[MrVolton]

I am from Knoxville..I know them too, but there is no quick way around anywhere away from the Interstates.

Fortunately, most places of interest in Knoxville are very near the interstates, unlike Lexington.