Fun on Route 202

I was watching a morning news program in a waiting room and the announcer was describing an unusually bad traffic tie-up along Route 202, in the construction zone near the Route 29 interchange.
"How about that!" I remarked. "I was in that exact spot yesterday."
The gentleman sitting next to me commented that even though he knows perfectly well the lanes are still 12 feet wide, it makes him uneasy driving along an extended stretch of road like that hemmed in by those temporary concrete barriers.

In the course of conversation of the next few days I was surprised how many people agree that those "cattle chutes" give them the willies, whether they drive a Ford Focus or a Dodge Ram pickup.
Speaking of road construction, it seems that the off-ramp from the Route 1 bypass to Route 796 (Jennersville Rd.) is going to be widened to two lanes, and a traffic light is going to be installed, as part of construction of the proposed medical center going in just north of the interchange. That can certainly be a clogged intersection: I've often seen exiting traffic back up all the way down the ramp at rush hour, and impatient motorists tired of waiting sometimes make rash decisions about pulling out when they finally reach Route 796. It'll be interesting to see if this improvement has any impact on the adjacent intersection at Route 796 and Old Baltimore Pike.