Baymeadows Road

This is the view I have when I leave work and head east on Baymeadows Road. I was sitting there (and sitting there and sitting there and sitting there, which is a whole 'nother story) watching the clouds come over.

Regarding the sitting there situation, Baymeadows Road was not built to accommodate the massive amounts of businesses and office buildings that have sprouted up over the past 5 years or so. And the traffic lights aren't timed, either, so I get up to speed and go through one, only to have to come to a stop at the next one. It's the old go, stop, go, stop routine.

Anyway, what I've noticed is that while every other direction at the intersection at Baymeadows and Southside gets to go (westbound, northbound, southbound), the eastbound lanes (the ones I take) have a red light through about 3 cycles of the traffic lights at the intersection. And of course, the most traffic happens to be heading eastward. So sometimes it will take me about 20 minutes to get from the driveway of my office building to the intersection at Southside which is just a mile or two away.

And to help deal with the blockages created by these mistimed lights, from 4:45 to 5:15 pm on workdays, there's a policeman that stands at the entrance to my office building parking lot. When there are a few cars waiting to turn out, he blows his whistle, then walks out into the street, and creates a break so we can turn either right or left.

And people think LA traffic is bad -- at least they've heard of timing the traffic lights there.