Regular day on Interstate 81

There's nothing like a trip on Interstate 81 to unsettle your nerves.  This morning I got the pleasure of an intense thunderstorm and some trucks who decided that "no trucks in the left lane" didn't apply to them on the mountain after the Roanoke River rest stop headed towards Blacksburg.

In fact those same trucks stayed in the left lane all the way to Christiansburg Mountain where the Va. Tech traffic exits.  Of course that meant traffic slowed to 45 mph at times.   That always brings out the best in some drivers.  Those are the ones trying to sneak around everyone and into the all too little space left between vehicles.

If government can't figure out how to fix Interstate 81, then we should figure out how to fix government.  Interstate 81 is unsafe much of the time.  It's just not a highway that is helping our area these days.  It has become a very negative part of living here especially around holidays.

If you don't think Interstate 81 is a problem then you obviously don't spend much time on Interstate 81.  Widening the highway to six lanes would just catch us up to our current traffic levels on much of the highway.  I hope our politicians come to their senses before Interstate 81 develops daily gridlock.