Monday, June 16, 2008

End of the US Open

*sigh* What a let down.

The traffic was actually better than normal most days. So I decided to stop the project on Thursday due to uninteresting photos. I gotta hand it to the US Open planners. They did a fantastic job with the traffic up here. At the stadium...I'm not so sure. Traffic in Mission valley is dicey at best. Still, they've had lots of practice at Qualcomm.

The Open was pretty good though. Tied on the last shot of regulation play. Followed by another 18 holes tied at the end (deja vu). Followed by a sudden death playoff.

Congratulations to Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate for a fantastic series of Golf.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Day 3/4

Today is the first day of the Qualifying rounds. Traffic around Qualcomm is pretty bad according to the radio. Traffic on the freeway coming in was moderate. Although the bus route into La Jolla (Yes the buses go down Ardath rd La Jolla Pkwy) was pretty bad. It was backed up down the ramps almost to the I-52 when I passed by.

I do have some photos of the trip in and will post them tonight.

I decided to go in via Gilman drive. Gilman was pretty clear. Lots more bicycles today. And then I went up La Jolla Village Dr/ N.Torrey Pines Rd.

That was more what I expected. Phil and Tiger were already on the course when I went in. So I expect traffic through there was a lot heavier a couple of hours earlier.

The other thing I noticed was SDPD. They're all over the place. Writing tickets and towing cars. So if you plan on being in the area, be alert and obey ALL of the signs. Getting towed is expensive and the nearest yard is over by Miramar.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Day 2/3

So it's Wednesday lunch. Things are starting to ramp up a bit. Traffic still isn't above the normal variation... yet. Although the signs are there that it's going to be worse. I'm starting to see a lot more folks wandering off towards the side streets and the Detour signs are starting to appear.

Starting tomorrow I'll be biking in part way to avoid the worst of the expected build ups. So far I have to say "Good Job" the the traffic planners. We'll see how well they did in the next 2 days :)

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

US Open Day 0 and Day 1

Since I work in Torrey Pines I thought it might be a fun (or at least amusing to me) idea to chronicle how the US Open affects my daily commute. What I did was to walk around last Friday and take pictures around the outside of the Golf course at 6pm. Then each day I'll take pictures of my commute and post the interesting ones with commentary about the drive.

Day 0 (Friday)

US Open Torrey Pines-5

The first thing I noticed was all of the myriad signs that have appeared in the last few days. Everything from Extreme delay warnings and No Parking to Shuttle direction signs.

For some reason traffic was extremely light Friday.

US Open Torrey Pines-5

Day 1 (Monday)

Monday was pretty light. I managed to get to work with no problems. I didn't even see any buses.

US Open monday-1

And the evening commute was light as well...or at least no worse than normal :)

US Open monday-2

This morning I didn't take any photos. The Commute and traffic were pretty normal. The only difference was the half dozen or so large buses on I-52.

Now for the bad news.

The tourists are here. On my way out to lunch I saw 4 near accidents and at least 10 major traffic violations before I got to UCSD. And to think I want to ride my bike in with this traffic....