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Opening Day is tomorrow!

My Cubs will be at home hosting the Brewers, their neighbors up I-94.

Hopefully the weather allows them to play. Go Brewers!

I don't think anyone knows what alignment I-11 will take thru or around Wickenburg. Any guess could be way off by hundreds of millions of dollars depending on that variable. My spitball attempt at a guess: $500 million.

Does anyone seriously believe MMM wasn’t a troll at this point on the basis of his own post content?  If you were on the fence how is a second hand account from someone credible like 1 not enough evidence?

Here is the definition of trolling: to make a deliberately offensive or provocative online post with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them.

I am not disputing that's what MMM was doing, but I maintain that his activity was really pretty mild trolling, even by this forum's standards. And because MMM managed to stay around for so long and even shared some personal information here, there was reason not to write him off immediately, and to think that he at least had some potential to contribute in a non-trolling matter.

It really doesn't matter now, and I'm not trying to defend MMM, but the discourse surrounding him seems to have gotten so extended and dramatized that I think it is worth pointing out he wasn't really that bad. But maybe his blurring of the line between acceptable and non-acceptable activity is partly why we're still so fascinated with him, even though we should have just closed the book and moved on long ago (which, ironically, is exactly what we would have done with a more egregious troll).

I’m not claiming the guy was Crash_It.  All the same, he was clearly trying to get a rise out of the forum numerous times.  Yeah sure, when it was confined to his own threads it was mostly harmless aside from being annoying.  Trouble was he wrecked a lot of legitimate threads by way of polluting them with his crazed ideas and thoughts on all manner of things. 

Does anyone seriously believe MMM wasn’t a troll at this point on the basis of his own post content?  If you were on the fence how is a second hand account from someone credible like 1 not enough evidence?

Well MMM has been banned already, so that should be proof enough, as he wasn't getting banned pre discovery.

If I understand correctly, the ban was because of the sockpuppet, not because his forum activity was determined to be trolling.

If trolling were to be the cause of his ban he would have been banned much earlier on.

NY 39?

Does anyone seriously believe MMM wasn’t a troll at this point on the basis of his own post content?  If you were on the fence how is a second hand account from someone credible like 1 not enough evidence?

Well MMM has been banned already, so that should be proof enough, as he wasn't getting banned pre discovery.

If I understand correctly, the ban was because of the sockpuppet, not because his forum activity was determined to be trolling.

Does anyone seriously believe MMM wasn’t a troll at this point on the basis of his own post content?  If you were on the fence how is a second hand account from someone credible like 1 not enough evidence?

Here is the definition of trolling: to make a deliberately offensive or provocative online post with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them.

I am not disputing that's what MMM was doing, but I maintain that his activity was really pretty mild trolling, even by this forum's standards. And because MMM managed to stay around for so long and even shared some personal information here, there was reason not to write him off immediately, and to think that he at least had some potential to contribute in a non-trolling matter.

It really doesn't matter now, and I'm not trying to defend MMM, but the discourse surrounding him seems to have gotten so extended and dramatized that I think it is worth pointing out he wasn't really that bad. But maybe his blurring of the line between acceptable and non-acceptable activity is partly why we're still so fascinated with him, even though we should have just closed the book and moved on long ago (which, ironically, is exactly what we would have done with a more egregious troll).

Does anyone seriously believe MMM wasn’t a troll at this point on the basis of his own post content?  If you were on the fence how is a second hand account from someone credible like 1 not enough evidence?

Well MMM has been banned already, so that should be proof enough, as he wasn't getting banned pre discovery.

Here’s one, from 2600 South onto Wildcat Way in Woods Cross, Utah.

This intersection was a doghouse until 2-3 years ago, when 2600 South was widened as part of a larger I-15 project. Initially this left turn was controlled by a FYA, but within a year it was converted to a protected left. My guess for why the change was made is the high left turn volumes, especially the movement from EB 2600 to NB Wildcat. That left-turn line often fails to clear in a cycle and frequently backs up into the main travel lanes.

Although I can’t think of any at the moment, there are probably intersections that were initially FYAs but were converted to dual-left lanes, which in Utah require a protected-only left turn.

3 and 4 lane oncoming approaches should not have permissive turns across them.

Just realized CTDOT picked the worst week of the year to renumber I-691’s exits.  Out of towners going to the Daffodil Festival at Hubbard Park on 4/29 and 4/30 are going to have fun when their GPS tells them to get off Exit 4, and they end up getting off the new exit 4. 

are you inviting us to daffodil festival