OT. Gas Pricing

May 14, 2021 Last reply: 5 years ago 46 Replies
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We've got one where the circle is tangent to the street centerline if you can picture that. The high school wasn't giving up an inch of their athletic field so the whole mess is offset to the south.

Many of the roundabouts here replace 4-way stop intersections, or intersections that never had stop signs. Those work surprisingly well with people taking turns or yielding in a civilized manner.

However that does lead to the problem of people still treating them like

4-way stops. The small ones are really bad. If someone is entering 90 degrees to your left there isn't enough room to determine if he's going to exit on the street where you are, or go 180 degrees.

Large trucks go straight through, as in running over the damn center section because no way are they going to make it on the pavement. They used to plant flowers in the center but gave up on that idea,

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On Thu, 20 May 2021 19:02:39 -0400, Ed Pawlowski posted for all of us to digest...

And now in NJ they are installing roundabouts. They gave some baloney how they were different. :p

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On Thu, 20 May 2021 19:43:17 -0600, rbowman posted for all of us to digest...

That is one of the problems with installing them, they don't have the real estate to accomplish it properly so they make do, hence the truck *mudding* the center section and tangents. You are correct in your comments about the small ones.

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On Thu, 20 May 2021 20:30:53 -0400, snipped-for-privacy@aol.com posted for all of us to digest...

I hear you. PA is only putting them in remote areas. The only tunneling under the streets is done by decrepit water pipes breaking.

I only drove in DC once, that was enough.

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On Thu, 20 May 2021 19:43:17 -0600, rbowman posted for all of us to digest...

I forgot to add to my previous post... The developers got pissed at the township when they mandated the cul-de-sac radius increased. Found out you couldn't get a fire truck around them, of course they had to increase it more because the new residents would never park in the street - would they?

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The company I drove for handled a lot of furniture, most of which was warehouse to warehouse but every now and then it would be mom and pop furniture store or very rarely a residential delivery someone had wrangled.

One of the residential deals was out in the boonies north of Boise. The directions were good but I was a little dubious about the road. So I got there and we got their shiny new recliner off the truck, which was a straight 53' trailer, no fancy hydraulic tailgate. The couple were nice and not spring chicken so I helped them get it into the house and set up in the living room.

Then came the question that had been bugging me. 'How do I get out of here?' The nice old gentleman told me the road was a dead end but there was a cul-de-sac about a half mile further on. He added that it was going to be tight with my rig but if I ran over a mail box not to worry since the owner was a son of a bitch. I don't know if that was a suggestion but I did manage to get the rig pointed in the other direction without destroying anything.

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