A traffic mess in Moab

Rice wrote:

dedmiston wrote:

agesilaus wrote:
We generally avoid Moab as much as possible anyway, Ugly town

Polite people keep those thoughts to themselves.

In this context, yes. But if someone were asking for opinions on Moab, I would think opinions like this would be germane.

I'm still wondering if the traffic the OP reported might have been related to an event, and not reflective of what it's going to be like there every day from now until the project is finished.

Seems like there's always some event in Moab, but there wasn't any of the big ones like the Easter Jeep Safari or the Car Show. Besides, this was every day all week. We know of three other families who were out in Moab the week before we were and had the same issues. All three bailed and came home early. (Yeah, I'm stubborn and stuck it out - besides we didn't get to camp in Moab all spring) Talking with the locals I know or I met on the trail, they all said they'd never seen any backups like they'd had since the construction started. When I took one of our bikes into a shop in town for repair, he had me wait while he fixed it as he didn't want me to have to come back into town to pick the bike up later.

Will traffic backups get shorter? Sure. As we get into winter visitation drops quite a bit. Cold temps and snowy wet trails tends to keep people away. But unless they change things up with regard to how they are handling the traffic, next spring could be another fiasco. I don't know what their plans are for how detours and lane closures are scheduled, but for those planning a trip out there next March or April, I'd recommend getting some local insight as to whether things have improved or not before heading out.