|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#371
|
|||
|
|||
In article ,
Frank Krygowski wrote: Nate Nagel wrote: Alan Baker wrote in message ... In article , Frank Krygowski wrote: ... I did get a look at the warning sign for that ramp. The sign is literally the size of a billboard! It just didn't look like a trick to me! Perhaps that should tell you something about the affect of all the improperly posted warning signs that people have encountered that they should have to make that one so very large... I believe I've addressed this already - even if you accept the "larger means they really mean it" premise, it doesn't hold up, as every tollbooth in the state of PA has similarly sized signs recommending similar speeds, and are pretty much uniformly ludicrous (i.e. 25 MPH or 35 MPH 1/2 mile away from a tollbooth, which you can still see anyway because the road is dead flat and arrow straight.) As an added bonus, they throw up rumble strips before the signs to make *sure* you see them. This is at least partly because a tractor trailer plowed through a toll booth a few years ago. The toll booth workers _really_ prefer that drivers come out of their trances. It helps their life expectancy. And I imagine it's partly because accidents happen when drivers somehow miss the fact that traffic is actually backed up and stopped at the toll booths. Now you may wonder, how on earth could someone drive along and not see a line of cars, or a tool booth, sitting stationary in the road ahead of them? But then, we wonder how someone could misjudge a 25 mph ramp to the point they have to do a "controlled four wheel drift" [sic] to make it through! Because the portion that required 25 mph was out of plain view and advisory limits are so habitually wrong by a factor of two that there's no way any reasonable person would trust them. Road zombies. They need to wake up, and slow down. -- Alan Baker Vancouver, British Columbia "If you raise the ceiling 4 feet, move the fireplace from that wall to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard." |
Ads |
#372
|
|||
|
|||
In article , Frank Krygowski
wrote: snip Road zombies. They need to wake up, and slow down. Or maybe just hang up! Almost bought it yesterday because of some inatentive drivers yaking on their cell phones. I was as far to the right in a bike lane as you can get. HAND Yo! Frank! You on sabatical this semester??? |
#373
|
|||
|
|||
In article , Frank Krygowski wrote:
This is at least partly because a tractor trailer plowed through a toll booth a few years ago. The toll booth workers _really_ prefer that drivers come out of their trances. It helps their life expectancy. See this is the speed kills idiotcy at work. Someone bribes their way to an IL CDL, starts driving a truck without the proper training, trades it in for CA CDL, eventually rams a line of cars at toll booth and kills a few people and what's the answer? Lower the speed limits. Typical dishonesty. Bringing this up allows for the illustration of the corruption of IL government, but anything else. |
#374
|
|||
|
|||
In article ,
H. M. Leary wrote: Road zombies. They need to wake up, and slow down. Or maybe just hang up! Driving to work is boring enough with a cell phone. If I regularly commuted by car I'd need a DVD or book to occupy me. -- a href="http://www.poohsticks.org/drew/"Home Page/a Life is a terminal sexually transmitted disease. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Rec.Bicycles Frequently Asked Questions Posting Part 1/5 | Mike Iglesias | General | 4 | October 29th 04 07:11 AM |
Cities Turning to Bicycles | Roger Zoul | General | 468 | October 20th 04 02:53 AM |
Cities Turning to Bicycles | TBGibb | Rides | 11 | October 4th 04 12:43 PM |