More Driving Stuff
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Here we go again with people equating speed limits with safety.
Unfortunately, one child was killed and another injured when a car drove off the highway and into a park.
The facts:
- The accident was caused by driver of the car falling asleep.
- The park being so close to a highway has been a concern for many years.
- Fifteen years ago, a survey was done that recommended that a barrier be placed between the highway and the park.
- Neighbors have been bitching regularly to get the barrier installed, but the city has been slow figuring out who would be responsible for paying for it.
The response:
- Lower the speed limit of the highway.
- Place speed-check signs.
- Place four cops permanently along the park edge to write tickets.
All this ignores the fact that if they did exactly this last week, the kid would still have been killed. The sleeping driver ran a stop light, he wouldn't have obeyed the speed limit sign. I'm pissed for two reasons. First, that they didn't actually do something effective, like put in temporary barriers as the first remediation. Second, that lowering the speed limit is seen as any part of the solution. It's a stupid design to have a naked park border next to a highway. Fix the border, don't destroy the highway by turning it into a city street.
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I'm willing to bet that erecting a barrier would have been cheaper than putting cops on permanent patrol there
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They want to call it a parkway.
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I'm willing to bet that erecting a barrier would have been cheaper than putting cops on permanent patrol there
But the investment pays back far quicker.
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They want to call it a parkway.
Parkway, because the speed limit is like that of parking?
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Dunno. The only other parkway I've ever driven on had a speed limit of 55mph, so I'm pretty sure that "parkway" doesn't mean "slow highway".
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But the investment pays back far quicker.
Yep, because the police will bleed "speeders" of their $$$.
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Do we have a Captain Obvious yet?
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I'm willing to bet that erecting a barrier would have been cheaper than putting cops on permanent patrol there
not when the cops are combined with a silly lowered speed limit.
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We have @captain oblivious?
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The government proposed a nonsense solution to a problem?!
What kind of bizzaro world are you living in?!
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I'm not sure what's worse:
- Having six of those (tied with @accalia)
- The most recent three were all given to me
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I'm not sure what's worse:
- Having six of those (tied with @accalia)
- The most recent three were all given to me
3. No one is surprised.
ATFY
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I'm not sure what's worse:
- Having six of those (tied with @accalia)
- The most recent three were all given to me
Wait … you passed @mott555?
Edit: And why should the lists be consistent in quotes? Actually, I think I have a bug report open about it.
Edit the second: Yep, it's been open about 2 months now.
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The only other parkway I've ever driven on had a speed limit of 55mph
Sometimes "parkway" means something distinct from "freeway" or "highway". In New York, parkways ban trucks, for example.
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In New York, parkways ban trucks, for example.
Does that include “light trucks”? If so, I approve!
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Usually it bans all vehicles with commercial plates. Light truck owners can opt to get commercial plates (which cost less), or passenger plates.
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Usually it bans all vehicles with commercial plates.
That would be a typically-ridiculous way of going about it, given the reason for the ban.
(For those who didn't bother looking it up on Wikipedia, the NY parkway system was designed partially as a scenic route; among other things, there's a lot of bridges too low for high vehicles, there's a distinct lack of shoulders in many places, and so on. TBH a better practical method to keep overlarge vehicles off would've probably been mounting horizontal "if your vehicle scraped this, you shouldn't get onn the road" poles before the entrances.
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Type of plate determining the type of vehicle is so back-asswards it hurts.
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Type of plate determining the type of vehicle is so back-asswards it hurts.
True, but that's the government mind at work for you: the map is the territory.
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TBH a better practical method to keep overlarge vehicles off would've probably been mounting horizontal "if your vehicle scraped this, you shouldn't get onn the road" poles before the entrances.
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If it didn't work at all, you wouldn't see it all over in drive-thrus and parking garages. I didn't say it would be perfect.
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TBH a better practical method to keep overlarge vehicles off would've probably been mounting horizontal "if your vehicle scraped this, you shouldn't get onn the road" poles before the entrances.
Just use a low railway bridge. That's much more effective!
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Yeah, that's effective...
The problem with the construct on the video is that, in spite of common sense, the marker is higher than the obstacle. In particular, the truck in this video was about ten centimeters lower than the marker, but about 2cm higher than allowed. I believe that if this would be the other way around, this wouldn't happen.
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