A brief one here this tumultuous Monday — keep tuned to your CB radio and traffic apps and states’ 511 traveler-information services approaching major cities near nightfall until protests and opportunistic agitators at their margins quiet down, my own home city of Nashville no exception in this case.
Bottom line: If you can steer well clear of any on-foot crowd’s venture into a major interstate, take every opportunity you have to do so.
Recall our own Twitter list that aggregates a lot of the state and local 511 info accounts in one big list, embedded below. Included in that feed yesterday was the notice of the closure of I-35W in Minneapolis where one Kenan Advantage tank hauler found himself trying to navigate a sea of humanity in the roadway, as we reported at this link.
⚠️ IMPORTANT UPDATE: Road closures will now begin at 5PM, and will be more extensive than previously planned. https://t.co/8Znf2BVk9x pic.twitter.com/1PfOEIRTRL
— Minnesota Department of Transportation (@MnDOT) May 31, 2020
Note the tweet above announcing the three-hour change of timing of the local closures occurred just more than 20 minutes before the start of the closures, and contrary to multiple deceptively suggestive clickbait-y headlines from all manner of outlets, all indications are the tanker owner-op was on this scene purely by accident.
