Ok...there is no best way...expect traffic congestion and delays once you hit the GI city limits...I am sure the local AM newsradio will be providing traffic updates.
If you are coming in on the newly finished South Locust "Obama Stimulus Expressway" (paid for with "free money" I might add) expect the first bottleneck at the south Wal-Mart. There are two poorly placed traffic lights within less than a block of each other at the Highway 34 junction and unless the City Engineer or Traffic Division has a brainfart and realizes this will be a problem...there will be issues. The next bottleneck will be at the main entrance on South Locust on the west side of Fonner. On an average day there is lots of local traffic going both ways and with Fair traffic crossing into Fonner from the north it will be jam city. I wonder if they will close off left turns from the north into Fonner?...or if they will use the traffic light or have the NSP doing hand and arm signals? It's two lanes each way and unless the locals stay home it will be gridlock. A story in this morning's foot-wide newspaper tells how the local Chamber of Horrors...er...Commerce will be conducting daily prayer services during the Fair to pray for smooth traffic flow. Everyone is "hoping."
If you are coming from the east I suggest taking the east exit on I-80...cruise into town on 34/2...take the free turn onto South Locust and then wait in the mile-and-a-half line like everyone else...keep to the right. Coming from west or north...you are on your own...everyone knows no one lives west or north of GI. Don't try parking in any of the surrounding business lots...they are already posting notices in the local foot-wide newspaper saying violators will be towed. Skagway South and Advance Auto Parts...as well as some other businesses are offering $10.00 parking but it is limited to a few stalls. Shuttle service will be available from satellite parking areas where-ever they are.
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I've got to be at a wedding at Stuhr this Sat. Any idea of a shortcut to avoid #34? I could just drop the ATV into the waterway/slough and go cross country. I hope G.I. pulls it off. Lincoln has given away so much stuff.
Pip...
Good to see you among the land of the living...haven't seen your presence lately and was getting worried.
On my drive across GI this afternoon what I didn't notice was a notable increase in out-of-county plates...no more than usual. Of course they may all be parked at the Fair and I made it a point to avoid South Obama Expressway. I think the weekend...sucks to be you...will be the teller for the Fair. Will the wedding dinner be a corndog on the ferris wheel? Could be the first GI State Fair wedding celebration.
I think you will make it to the wedding on time...I would take I-80 and come up 281. Drove to Omaha Wed. at mid day and there had to be an NSP radar car stationed every two miles along I-80 east of GI. "Revenuers." Funny they are not there when you need them.
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