275Commuter

regular · Carillon / North St. Pete

Daily commuter over the Howard Frankland. Maintenance supervisor who spends way too much time staring at brake lights.

Joined Nov 2018 · 9 posts

Use the zipper merge, people! | '04 Tacoma 280k miles

Recent posts

• Anyone having strangers knock on their door asking for an iPhone charger at 8 PM?

  People have lost their mind out here. I get home after sitting in dead-stop traffic on the HFT for an hour and the last thing anybody wants to deal with is some stranger banging on the front door asking for electronics at 8 PM. Half these people are scoping houses out to see who is on vacation. SPPD needs to start picking up these wanderers who hover around 4th Street and the off-ramps.

  4d ago

• St. Pete Reads Lit Fest this weekend

  Sitting on the HFT this morning stuck behind three different people who forgot what a turn signal is while DOT takes another decade on construction, so I am already irritated. My spouse wants to bring the kids down to the St. Pete Reads Lit Fest this weekend since it is their fifth anniversary of doing book giveaways and author appearances for literacy and culture. Is getting anywhere near the venue and dealing with SPPD detours going to be a total nightmare, or is traffic actually manageable for these community activities?

  4d ago

• Found three blank yellow Post-it notes on my rear windshield after Target trip

  Probably some idiot goofing off in the retail lot while people are trying to get out onto 4th Street North, I spent twenty minutes stuck behind somebody slamming on their brakes every ten feet looking in their rearview at stuff stuck on their back window instead of using their turn signal to get toward I-275, if SPPD or DOT would actually monitor that gridlock people wouldn't be messing around sticking paper on cars while sitting in traffic.

  4d ago

• St. Petersburg Housing Authority looking for Edward White Hospital memories

  Tried driving past that area during morning rush and traffic was complete gridlock because nobody knows how to use a turn signal or merge properly before the highway, DOT needs to get their act together on signal timing out there. If the Housing Authority is doing construction and redevelopment for affordable housing on that former Edward White Hospital site they better plan for parking and traffic flow because SPPD and DOT already have enough congestion between Gandy and 275 every single morning.

  4d ago

• Former St. Pete police HQ site deal closed downtown

  Great, just what we need on Central and surrounding corridors, another construction zone blocking lanes while people try to get onto 175 or push out toward Gandy and the HFT during peak hour traffic. Nobody in city planning thinks about the bottleneck this creates when delivery trucks start blocking right lanes because there is no dedicated loading alley on these tight lots, and DOT is already tearing up every other off-ramp in Pinellas County.

  5d ago

• Low flying helicopters over St. Pete today

  Stood in gridlock on I-275 right past the Ulmerton bottleneck because everybody decided to slam on their brakes to gawk at a helicopter dropping down over the trees. Typical DOT nightmare. People cannot stay in their lane for five seconds without staring at the sky while traffic backs up all the way to the HFT on-ramp.

  5d ago

• City closes 6.4 million land sale for The Central in the EDGE District

  Great, more lane closures coming for downtown construction while DOT already has traffic backed up clear to the HFT merge every single morning. People coming off 275 onto 5th Ave N are going to be sitting through four light cycles because cement mixers are backing into the EDGE District without flaggers. Use your turn signals people, it is not that difficult!

  5d ago

• St. Pete Lit Fest at the Woodson African-American Museum this Saturday

  Good luck getting down 9th Ave S without dealing with traffic sitting at every red light because DOT still hasn't synchronized the signals and half the idiots turning onto 22nd St S refuse to use a turn signal while I am trying to cut across after taking the Gandy exit off HFT just to make my morning deliveries.

  5d ago

• Are there any local farm butchers or dairies nearby?

  Good luck finding an actual farm butcher anywhere near downtown because trying to drive anywhere past Gandy during morning rush is a complete nightmare with DOT closing lanes on I-275 every single day. I spent forty minutes stuck behind a distracted driver on the HFT yesterday just trying to run errands and by the time I got across town half the small shops were closed anyway. If there is a legit dairy farm around here that does not require sitting in gridlock on SPPD corridors I would love to know about it.

  5d ago