by KYW's Mike DeNardo
Drivers have to floor it if they want to merge onto Interstate 295 in South Jersey during the current repaving project.
"I think it's a major accident waiting to happen, to be honest with you."
Bob Kane of Haddon Heights drives Route 295 every day, and he's concerned that during the construction, the on-ramp merge lanes between Cherry Hill and West Deptford have been replaced with stop signs -- meaning drivers have to go very quickly from a dead stop to highway speed to join traffic on I-295.
The $69 million federal stimulus project began in July, and it's not scheduled to finish until summer of 2012.
New Jersey DOT spokesman Tim Greeley says engineers determined that on-ramp stop signs were the best option:
"In order to keep the highway open, three lanes in each direction, this was really the best operation that we determined would work the best."
Greeley says that the Department of Transportation has begun moving the stop lines closer to the highway and relocating some construction barriers, to try to give on-ramp drivers a better view.
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(Photo by KYW's Mike DeNardo)
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