PCH (Pacific Coast Highway)

Lion · ‎03-09-2010

I'm hearing so much about how awful the PCH is for driving accidents.

Just listened to "The Talk" crew talk about how terribly dangerous it is, how many accidents there are, and they even lost a beloved staff member in a fatal accident on PCH.

Why doesn't CA fix it so it's safer to drive on?

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MickD · ‎03-10-2010

It's a scenic road. People are sight-seeing, on their way to boutiques, restaurants, etc...not to mention the tourists and mud/ rock slides....a lot of distractions... I was driving on it a month ago after picking up my car from being repaired.....and I thought - why did I go this way? Wet surface..idiot drivers...rocks in the road....ugh.

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Nancy Drew · ‎03-11-2010

I drive it all the time. It's fine. The ladies on 'the Talk"" just talk to talk.

Wrong is still wrong just because you benefited from it.

sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

it is more the unsafe crazy drivers than anything else!

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MickD · ‎03-10-2010

Nancy. - you make a great point ...you drive it all time...so you know it.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.... ~ S & G

MomOf4 · ‎01-28-2012

On 2/9/2015 Nancy Drew said:
I drive it all the time. It's fine. The ladies on 'the Talk"" just talk to talk.

I completely agree with you.

dooBdoo · ‎06-27-2010

On 2/9/2015 Nancy Drew said:
I drive it all the time. It's fine. The ladies on 'the Talk" just talk to talk.

I'm not discounting your experience -- you're there and I'm not. But I'm curious about its long-standing reputation for being perilous. One of my sisters lived out in the L.A. area, and she's mentioned the dangers, too.

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Shaunac · ‎09-22-2010

People drive too fast. Many roads would be safer if they would just take it easy.

Lion · ‎03-09-2010

But, even if the traffic problems are because of how people drive on it, there are ways to update and change roads to minimize the effects of bad drivers.

Around here, they monitor traffic accident statistics on roads and investigate. If the stats are bad, they do something about it by making changes to the road/intersection/etc.

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chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

There are lots of parts that have a cliff on one side and a steep mountainside on the other, with only one lane going each way. I don't know how they could widen that or do much to change it.

I think it's just one of those things one has to experience for oneself. It runs all along the coast, so there are hundreds of miles of it. It's not like a freeway, or a street, where you have some ways to re-build or widen it.