How Much Longer are we going to put off a new Southside/ Peninsula corridor?

  This really sickens me. Here I am, riding the brake, doing a slick 3 mph across the Willoughby bridge. On top of a broken AC and the lack of a 2 55 breeze, I've already lost about an hour and 15 minutes tonight because of cleaning inside of the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel. It's 11 p.m. On a Thursday.

      I have been sitting in this traffic since 9:40. The sign says RIGHT LANE CLOSED FOR CLEANING. Apparently they are cleaning one/half of the 64 WEST tube. GREAT!         Raise your hand if you believe it's a good idea to start at this hour with this many people still on the roads. Who would give them permission to do that? If your job is to clean the inside of the tunnel don't you think it'd be a litle bit smarter to wait until about 1 o'clock in the morning to begin? Why at this hour? Who's convenience is this for? 5,000 Westbound people are losing one hour each, right at this moment because the 10 people  cleaning the tunnel couldn't wait a couple of hours? I would be very interested to hear the reasoning behind this decision. And you would think that once this 6 mile backup was discovered, 5,000 people sitting idle, that they would get the hell out of the tunnel and let everybody go through. Right? But they haven't. Is President Obama on his way to inspect the Godliness of our tunnel tiles?He'd better be,  I've  been crawling for nearly two hours now. What if I happen to have an emergency at home ? What if my wife is waiting on me to bring her insulin?       She is.        Had I known it was going to be like this: I would have brought my canoe.
   The guys on this road crew must be very important people indeed, because they apparently command a lot more respect than 5000 of us try to get home. Someone is mighty scared to inconvenience these guys and their sponges!

    Now as I come across the other side it appears we aren't alone ,there's another 3000 people trying to go east! Good job,VDOT! I'm not sure who's in charge but whatever confidence I've had in VDOT, is nearly gone. Someone is not very good at their job. Just saying. Even I could have scheduled this better. I guarantee traffic volume would have been cut by three times if they would have waited a few more hours.
I'm sure that I could find more important things to bitch about but I use the HRBT 3 times a week, and I get stuck in traffic 2 out of 3 trips. That's a lot of lost productivity! Trust me, things r going to get worse. It's going to take years to build or expand the crossing and we have not even begun yet?

D.Pulley