A Wide, Wide Road Revisited

When weather humbles the work of traffic engineers

Back in May, I wrote about an ordinary residential street in Herndon, Virginia, a few minutes from my home. I say “street,” but this feels like a road, or even a highway. It’s very wide, and that has the effect of making a safe speed feel unbearably slow. Take a look at the piece.

As you may be aware, Northern Virginia had a pretty good snowstorm a coupl…