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In Lorton-Spingfield-Burke, there were a lot of power outages. What surprised me was the randomness. One block had power, the next not.

On Saturday morning, people on the Fairfax County Parkway (VA-286) were kinda ok treating the out lights as 4-way stops. It's weird on a semi-highway like the Parkway though, because in effect you have to yield to turning vehicles.

On Sunday, more power was working, but there were dangerous situations at the few lights that were not working because people were not anticipating a single light being out anymore. Also, it's hard to notice an out light if everybody blows through. Occasional lights were out at VA-123, VA-286, VA-28 and US-50.

Police did block a lot of left turns.

You gotta wonder whether it is smart policy to have people treat out lights as 4-way stops on semi-highways. It is counter intuitive and quite frankly creates very dangerous situations because so many do not comply, or are impatient.

by Jasper on Jul 2, 2012 10:21 am • link • report

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