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Rt 376 at Red Oaks Mill: Semitrailer Squeeze Play
We’re southbound on NYS Rt 376, approaching the Wappinger Creek bridge at mile marker 1102, avoiding the overgrowth coming through the guide rail:
Rt 376 SB Marker 1102 – Royal Semi Squeeze – 2020-07-15 – 01 Avoiding the pothole growing across the right wheel track:
Rt 376 SB Marker 1102 – Royal Semi Squeeze – 2020-07-15 – 02 Normally, I ride to the left of that pothole, down the middle of the lane, so it’s easier to avoid the next section of overgrowth through the guide rail:
Rt 376 SB Marker 1102 – Royal Semi Squeeze – 2020-07-15 – 03 This time, we’re as far to the right as we can get, because we’re being overtaken by a semitrailer trash hauler:
Rt 376 SB Marker 1102 – Royal Semi Squeeze – 2020-07-15 – 04 Which is proceeding as far to the left as the driver can possibly squeeze it:
Rt 376 SB Marker 1102 – Royal Semi Squeeze – 2020-07-15 – 05 Half a lane is more than we sometimes get:
Rt 376 SB Marker 1102 – Royal Semi Squeeze – 2020-07-15 – 06 Away he goes:
Rt 376 SB Marker 1102 – Royal Semi Squeeze – 2020-07-15 – 07 We always try to be friendly, because we’re sure to meet again some day:
Rt 376 SB Marker 1102 – Royal Semi Squeeze – 2020-07-15 – 08 Mary says he waved back, so it’s all good.
Elapsed time: about twelve seconds.
For whatever it’s worth, eight years ago, NYS DOT Region 8 South Dutchess Residency did a much better job of clearing the overgrowth along Rt 376:
Rt 376 SB Marker 1102 – Royal Semi Squeeze – Google StreetView 2012-04 That was then, this is now.
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