[Bristol-Birds] Race weekend reminder for Eastern Sullivan County
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:08:51 -0400
For birders who are not familiar with this weekend's NASCAR race traffic
problems,
this is a reminder that birding in Eastern Sullivan County this Saturday
and/or Sunday
can be particularly challenging as far as traffic is concerned.
There are 2,700 new traffic signs in place and hundreds of city, county and
state
police officers from Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina working traffic
for this
weekend's NASCAR race at Bristol.
You can easily get caught in traffic backed up for miles and hours even in
adjacent
counties.
Many flow directions are greatly altered. When race traffic is leaving
events, you
usually find normal routes no longer open with contra flow of all lanes for
many
miles flowing in the same direction on major highways. You are not able to
select
on ramps or off ramps in many places as state troopers have closed such
routes and
put you where they want you to travel no matter where you are headed. Such
alterations are in place for many hours.
There are no back country roads or city streets you can expect to travel to
escape
race traffic.
Here is the schedules you may wish to avoid:
Friday: 9 a.m. Qualifying begins
Saturday: 2 p.m. Race
Sunday: Main NASCAR Race all day traffic and event
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