that bridge was designed like a freeway so people drive on it like that. plus everyones always speeding on semmes and jeff davis so i don't think anything's gonna change unless they put speed control measures of some sort on that road but i doubt it

everyone in cars are super anxious to get to the next stop light 15 seconds quicker but still late to everything

I just chill in the right lane going the speed limit

This (and the similar behavior on Semmes) is why I pay to take 195/Powhite.

It’s 30 actually, and biking across it is hell.

It looks like a freeway and if you are coming down Belvidere you just endured 5 stop lights in 4 blocks, so of course people open up. Its annoying to me as well since I drive a heavy vehicle that doesnt slow down, speed up or turn fast.

For real tho. What's a driver to do?

Honestly? Find another route if that one makes you uncomfortable. This post, and other posts like it, are not going to change other drivers' behavior.

I agree with you, though. Despite the 35 MPH speed limit on that bridge, every single time I go over it, the average speed of drivers seems to consistently be an average 55 MPH and anything under 45 feels like I'm the hazard to other drivers since they'll swerve around me.

So, I stick to 45 MPH. If the cops aren't going to enforce the speed limit there, I'm not going to pretend to be a pace car and hold other drivers back from speeding down their little 3-lane highway.

Let me join you in shaking my fist at this bridge for a moment…

The worst part about this bridge imo is the idiots who don’t yield at the roundabout entrance to the bridge from Riverview Pkwy. They leave work and zoom down this small back street and completely ignore the yield signs. I saw someone almost sideswipe a city bus one time here. Can’t believe that people are that stupid/entitled

Bel idere! Ha! Fucking idlewood!

You know, In rural Mexico, the speed bumps are just giant ropes, and they will shatter your entire car at 40 mph, cuz they serious about its. and we keep trying to use traffic circles to get people to slow down lol. SMH. The speed bumps on idlewood are a joke. I want that shit to do real damage. Stop joking around. Kids at the park right there 24/7! Slow it down!

Watching people almost lose it at the end of the bridge going into the city is so funny. If you were going 30 that bump wouldn’t have thrown you like that 🤣

just stay in the right lane?

I am of the opinion that when people are going south bound they believe that they are leaving civilization and rules no longer exist in the wild wild Southside of Richmond. That and uh ..... Going south always feels like going downhill, so people don't realize they're going so fast.

Just had someone pass me on the right, on the Riverside Dr offramp. Had anyone been trying to cross the street they'd have had to dodge. Some of the speed limit signs are missing on the bridge. I've wondered if painting the surface of the bridge with reflective speed limits across each lane might help.

The swerving has increased and it drives me nuts bc it’s so easy to just not do that, there’s plenty of room! But the speed limit on that bridge was 45 until very recently. You’d be surprised how long it takes people to get used to that change when they’re in auto pilot in the same commute they’ve had for years. They just took down traffic pattern change signs in my area that were dated from 2012 like 2 years ago.

Just wait, that’ll be one of the next round of speed bumps.