The road must have been carved out of solid rock, otherwise the road would have washed away. How do you think they manage two-way traffic?
November 14, 2014
Not for the Faint of Heart
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They manage two way traffic by the simple expedient of one way in the forenoon and one way in the afternoon.
Thanks. What happens if a vehicle breaks down? I imagine cell phone reception isn’t very good.
In the comments on your previous post, you mentioned that keeping up with developments in the news helped develop stress hardiness. I think all the guys in this video must have gone a long way toward developing stress hardiness! It was fun to watch!
Too little stress is as bad for your health as too much. These guys were indulging in good stress. 🙂
There’s no two-way traffic on this road. It’s all downhill. Nobody is going to go UPHILL.
But if an uphill car did meet a downhill car -EEEEEEK! -best thing would be to push the uphill car over the edge & get in the downhill car.
The trouble is driving uphill is usually safe than driving downhill. Most of the vehicles going off the road in the mountains around here are trucks coming downhill.
As far as pushing one vehicle off the road: 😀
Neither can pass. What do you suggest? Not that one vehicle back all the way out, I hope.
I agree most vehicles go off the road going downhill.
Traffic stopped, I watched a man die, turn blue with a smile, his 40th B-day. The truck was off the road going uphill & I was coming down from ski touring. It only occurred to me later that he might have been saved. The driver got out.
What to do? I liked your idea of pushing one vehicle off the road. 😀 The only alternative is for one of them to back up, slowly and carefully. I was taught that the fellow coming down had to back up because it was safer, but who knows? My solution is to try stay off roads like that.
Well, I’d rather lose my car than try backing down that road & losing my life. We have a curvy driveway & I’ve hit the side wall a couple times, banged up the new car, so Tom backs it to the street for me. We even have the visual display in the front that shows what’s behind the car, so I don’t have to turn around.
WHAT!!! Don’t talk about backing down that road. You’re scaring me! You haven’t lived my life. Getting down into the east of Canyon Lands & the Maze, The Silver Staircase, etc.
It’s Canyonlands. I know better than my Speller, which didn’t like it as one word.
It sounds as if the video brought up a lot of old memories. 🙂
OMG
i couldn’t even make it through the full three minutes of it!!!
how many lost their lives BUILDING IT! I wonder?
simply amazing.
talk about arm chair traveling monk! LOL. thanks.
Yes, I’d rather watch the ride from the safety of my home than from inside the bus!
If by within a margined time the scheduled traffic does not reach the destination on either side, help goes and all traffic is held up. The journeys are usually in convoys.
Thanks!