Why is there so much traffic between 7:30 am- 8:00 am heading down Cornwallis to 42 from Southills subdivision? It takes me approximately 10 minutes just to get to the 42 light
I cannot verify this, but it seems to be worse on rainy and cold days when people would rather drive their children to school then have them wait at the bus stop. Then traffic from at least three schools heads back to I-40. That is my assumption.
I have been wondering the same thing as I come from Pleasant Woods at the same time. It seemed to me that it is worse on days when I40 is backed up more than usual. Most of the Cornwallis traffic is continuing on Cornwallis and not turning left or right onto 42, so I guessed they were going down Cornwallis and bypassing 40.
That could be the reason since 40 was miserable this morning. I had to take 70 to downtown Raleigh to Crabtree. However, I've been frustrated with that same traffic every morning this week so far. It does loosen up on the other side of the light on 42. I was wondering if something else was going on the other side of town.
Most of them are either going up and across Raynor to 70 or up directly to 70 and then getting on 40 thus bypassing the calamity at the Clayton bypass. There are some mornings traffic backs up for a very long way at the 42 light and others it doesn't. I haven't been able to figure out why its different day to day.
In the last several years traffic on Cornwallis has at the very least tripled. Those that have their driveways or live in subdivisions on this road have a very tough time pulling out, which has caused several bad wrecks in the last couple of months. I think this comes from several different issues. The most disturbing are the idiots speeding down Cornwallis way over the speed limit, this in turn makes it very challenging for those trying to find an opening to get onto the road with all those cars trying to qualify for the Indy 500 and it's going to get worse. They need to get that Southeastern Triangle Expressway done to help alleviate the stress on these secondary roads.
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The routes you mention are exactly what I take. However, once you get to the light on 42 it moves freely. The bottleneck is at that light. I assume it's the people turning left or right that move over to those lanes, but it's really one long, long line until you get to the point where they fan out and we can move through the light. Maybe the light timing itself needs to be changed for more of us to pass through who are going straight. I'm not an engineer, but something has to be done.
