A Rat

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by RefCT

... working in the Hartford area doesn't make it very easy to get to anywhere else in the state in time for a high school game ...

Before I retired from my day job as a chemist I had to travel through the Hartford area on my daily commute. The traffic is a perfect storm of I-84, I-91, Route 15, the Bulkeley Bridge, the Charter Oak Bridge, all pressed tight against the Connecticut River.

Add skiers heading north on a winter Friday night, and those heading east to Newport and Cape Cod on a summer Friday night, makes for a traffic disaster.

Throw in one fender bender, or a little construction, and traffic comes to a halt.

Whoever came up with the New England phrase, "You can't get there from here" was referring to this area.

The traffic engineer who designed this junction back in the 1950's should be shot.