Does This Drive “U” Insane on the Black Horse Pike in EHT and Mays Landing, NJ?

Am I the only one that is bothered by something that should be so simple yet it is so complex?

I was in Mays Landing the other day by the mall and I had to make a U-turn.

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Have you tried making a U-turn on the Black Horse Pike lately?

Let's take a trip eastbound on the Pike starting in Mays Landing at Leipzig Avenue.

For the past 100 years, you could make a U-turn here -- but as of a few weeks ago when they "modernized" the intersection, now you can't.

The next light at the mall entrance, no U-turn allowed.

And then you get to where Route 40 comes in... no turns.

Maybe you'll find a pot of gold at the next light at Wrangleboro Road? Nope. And here, you can't even turn left if you take the jughandle around.

Alright, at the next light it's gotta be possible, right?

Negative. No U-turns at Hamilton Commons in front of Chuck E. Cheese's.

So where can you make a U-turn? McKee Avenue! Arguably at one of the worst traffic lights in all of South Jersey.

However, if you miss that one, don't even think of trying to turn around at the next light at Delilah Road.

And this just isn't an issue in Mays Landing.

Drivers in Egg Harbor Township deal with the same thing -- if you are heading towards the shore, once you get beyond English Creek Avenue, you have to go down to Fernwood Avenue by Storybook Land to turn around.

I call that "The Auto Plaza problem" -- if you are at English Creek and want to get to The Auto Plaza (the used car dealership), you have to go way down to Storybook Land and back to get there. That's ridiculous.

Now, I realize in the grand scheme of things this is something that you likely have never paid any attention to, but it's just one of those things we have to put up with here in the Garden State.

Why do we make it so difficult to turn around?!