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Northeast / Re: Why are Cape Cod residents...

Last post by kalvado - Today at 01:43:28 PM

I also find it interesting that exits 1A-B westbound just after the Sagamore Bridge survived the conversion - are they considered to be based off MA 3's mileage as it begins? It leaves a 55-to-1 jump similar to the Capital Beltway jump mentioned upthread.

Yes, the exits just north of the Sagamore Bridge are now based off MA 3's mile markers.  But leaving the Cape, you're still on US 6 when you pass Exit 1A.  Exit 1B is MA 3 exiting itself!  The "loop ramp" to stay on US 6 west is unnumbered!

Even more weird, if you "continue straight" in both directions, you are "taking" exit 1B, which makes no sense whatsoever! 

Both sequential and mileage-based exits in theory work great. Real road layouts - with concurrences,  TOTSOs, later changes to roads layout... Well, looks like someone at FHWA got a great solution in search of at least a small problem.

#2

General Highway Talk / Re: XY Challenge

Last post by formulanone - Today at 01:36:17 PM

The only one I'm sure of is also along the same corridor in Georgia; US 301 and US 84 in Jessup:

#3

Off-Topic / Re: AARoads Wordle

Last post by davewiecking - Today at 01:32:56 PM

DECAL

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#4

Northeast / Re: Why are Cape Cod residents...

Last post by kramie13 - Today at 01:13:12 PM

I also find it interesting that exits 1A-B westbound just after the Sagamore Bridge survived the conversion - are they considered to be based off MA 3's mileage as it begins? It leaves a 55-to-1 jump similar to the Capital Beltway jump mentioned upthread.

Yes, the exits just north of the Sagamore Bridge are now based off MA 3's mile markers.  But leaving the Cape, you're still on US 6 when you pass Exit 1A.  Exit 1B is MA 3 exiting itself!  The "loop ramp" to stay on US 6 west is unnumbered!

Even more weird, if you "continue straight" in both directions, you are "taking" exit 1B, which makes no sense whatsoever! 

#5

General Highway Talk / Re: XY Challenge

Last post by Jim - Today at 01:12:58 PM

US 80 and US 301 in Statesboro, Georgia.  June 1, 2004.



US 1, US 82, and US 84 near Waycross, Georgia.  July 2, 2006.

#6

Sports / Re: NASCAR

Last post by Max Rockatansky - Today at 01:08:02 PM

The biggest issue I had with the old points system was twofold:

-  There should have been a wider gap in points awarded from 1st to 2nd.  Maybe award 1st with a base 195 or 200 points?
-  Positions below 30th should have just been awarded 0 points.  It was always pretty dumb to have wrecked cars running around much of the race to pick off anyone who got a DNF.

That said, I don't begrudge some champions like Terry Labonte (in 1996) or Matt Kenseth for how they got Winston Cup championships.  They truly were the best drivers those years and were unbelievably consistent compared to modern Cup seasons.

#7

Sports / Re: NASCAR

Last post by NWI_Irish96 - Today at 12:57:56 PM

Hell, I'd argue Mark Martin was screwed out of a championship because of a points penalty. 

That proves the point.  When NASCAR was properly run, every race mattered, and every point, and thus every position, mattered.  100% mattered. 

Today?  Who wins a race matters very little.  All that matters is making the idiotic chase, which is fairly easy to do, and then just sandbag along until it starts and then take your chance.  Who finishes best among 4 randomly determined drivers in a single race among all the other drivers, is just random.  In no way the same as winning a real championship based on a season of accomplishment.

And, BTW, the idiotic chase this year is sponsored by Power Ball.   Which is marketing genius.  A random drawing for a random "champion".

The old way of deciding the championship based on total points over the season was the most accurate way of determining the best driver. However, the explosion in TV money that came in the 90s-00s made it mandatory that a system be devised that prevents a champion from being crowned before the final weekend.

I wouldn't call the current format illegitimate, but it's definitely tilted too far in the other direction.

The playoffs are never going away, but there is a better way to run it. Find some other way than having it all boil down to which of four drivers finishes highest in the last race.

Also, please ditch the scheduled yellow flags at the end of stages. It punishes the dominant cars and rewards the mediocre ones. I don't mind the stage points gimmick, but do it without the scheduled yellows.

#8

Mid-Atlantic / Re: Delaware

Last post by 74/171FAN - Today at 12:56:27 PM

(For DE 141 and I-295)  TRAFFIC ALERT - New Castle County - A Nighttime Ramp Closure from SB Rt 141 onto NB I-295

#9

Off-Topic / Re: Minor things that bother y...

Last post by kphoger - Today at 12:44:17 PM

When the dashed lines don't line up in places like this.  I like it better when it's done like this instead.

#10

Mountain West / Re: Interstate 11

Last post by DenverBrian - Today at 12:40:48 PM

Agreed. The designation of an interstate highway should be in logical portions.

The first segment was the Nevada segment between north of Las Vegas and the Arizona state line.

The second logical segment would be once US-93 is upgraded between I-40 and the Nevada state line.

The entire initial construction of the Interstate highway system was done in segments - sometimes with scores or hundreds of miles between segments. How soon we forget.