Description

In EVERY M-F afternoon rush hour, what should be a fluid merge from I-295 onto the Wilson Bridge westbound, is made very unsafe and gridlocked. All of it is caused by the classic Washington area bad driving behavior of "cutting in line", rather than merging appropriately further back. Accidents are caused daily when imbeciles block the fast-moving traffic lane going to Maryland while waiting for their chance to cut in, and by causing accidents in the VA lane heading for the bridge as they "dive in".
This cries out for an eminently doable and inexpensive solution that already exists.
The bridge lane simply needs to be cordoned off from the MD lanes using the same PERMANENT plastic stantions as are used to cordon off the new express lanes elsewhere on the beltway. These should be put in place perhaps a half-mile before the VA lane and the MD lanes diverge.
This will stop the "cutting in" of both the last minute "diving" variety, as well as the very dangerous blocking of the fast-moving MD lanes variety. In turn, this will allow of a smooth, unimpeded flow in ALL the lanes, which should absolutely be the case after all the new interchange design was put in place along with the bridge.