First Street Blues

I can see they're striping around the new bit of road at Hitt and First Street, which is good news:

It's good, because the backup on Hitt at John Adams -- where the bulk of the traffic detours -- is a bit much:

If you squint, you can see waaaaay up there the stoplight. We are backed up quite a bit. Here's my estimate:

The red line shows the approximate length of the turning bay at John Adams. The blue shows approximately where I joined the turning lane. Note: There aren't any entrances to the right or left of the point you can see to the north (top) of Elite Auto Sales, so we weren't blocking anyone. A few brave souls try to get into the turning lane further up, and once in a while there's someone nice enough to let them in. But that's rare.

Look at the backup behind me:

New roads are nice, but it's sure a pain when they're blocked off for construction. Hopefully, First Street opens soon.

Then it'll be chaos next summer when they widen it.