It was bad enough back when it was two lanes — the left-turn-only lane was plenty to confuse idiotic drivers who couldn’t understand why they didn’t see three lanes on the other side of Ninth Avenue N. But ever since this little northbound merger was modified so that its two lanes filter down to one in the space of about half a block, the Eighth Street/MLK junction has become dreaded by everyone who has to use it regularly. Well, everyone except the morons who are apparently unable to sense that their lane is narrowing until they feel their front tire scraping the curb.
This article appears in Sep 13-19, 2006.