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#1

Photos, Videos, and More / Re: END signs

Last post by formulanone - Today at 03:01:00 PM

Alabama SRs 53 and 127:

#2

Sports / Re: General WNBA thread

Last post by ET21 - Today at 03:00:56 PM

That Sky team was special. All the pieces came together

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Northeast / Re: Massachusetts

Last post by RobbieL2415 - Today at 02:34:20 PM

Also regions have been told not to use by MUTCD for more specific places. Yes, The Islands is like New Jersey and Delaware using Shore Points for all beach destinations or NYC using Eastern LI instead of Riverhead.

I'm not against using regions nor bridges as I grew up with them as control places. Just that guide signs are for tourists not familiar with the area.

Oh yes, MA 28 should be mentioned on guides at eastern end of MA 25. Having Bourne Bridge signed without route number or US 6 signed solo without MA 28 West is bad. I agree with Shadyjay on that one.

I have been going to the cape for 27 years. I guarantee you no tourist is going to be intently looking for where MA 28 pops up. The Bourne Bridge is an obvious landmark and and easy choice to direct folks headed on-Cape.

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General Highway Talk / Re: Routing Decisions that can...

Last post by wanderer2575 - Today at 02:32:31 PM

I don't understand when GPS routes you on toll routes when the free routes are minutes slower. On my commute, my GPS always routes me to take tolls and express lanes, and the alternate option of taking only free routes is one minute slower. You'd think there is the technology nowadays to keep people off of toll roads if the time difference is marginal.

Google and Waze both have toll avoidance options.

But that is generally an all-or-nothing option.  I agree that I'd like some sort of an option (probably a sliding set of settings between all and nothing) to say "avoid tolls unless it saves significant time/distance", although it would be hard to set specific quantities or levels.

You could also imagine sliding options to indicate things like "I'd rather spend an hour on the open road than 45 minutes in slow traffic" or "I'd like to take scenic routes unless they add too much to the travel time" (where different people might have different opinions on what "too much time" is).

That's one of those things that sound great in theory but you go down a rabbit hole trying to implement.  Okay, they implement slider bars so you can set "significant time/distance" parameters for avoiding toll roads and using scenic routes.  Say you set 20 minutes as the threshold.  That's a hard setting, meaning that a minute one way or the other, depending on the option being set, is a no-go.  That will be irritating and so then you'll want a second slider bar to set a maximum variance from the first setting.  And what if traffic conditions keep changing?  Need a third slider bar to set the maximum number of times you want the thing to keep changing back and forth between Route A and Route B.  And then...

#5

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

Last post by hotdogPi - Today at 02:25:41 PM

Would using google.us prevent this?

#6

General Highway Talk / Re: Road-Geeky Things Of The P...

Last post by RobbieL2415 - Today at 02:22:52 PM

MassHighway's Project CLEAN.

You could call *321 where you saw trash on the side of a surface road or freeway and they would come out an clean it.

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

Last post by CNGL-Leudimin - Today at 02:22:09 PM

Google translating the reviews by default. C'mon, it's obvious I understand English perfectly, there's no need to translate everything into Spanish.

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General Highway Talk / Re: State Line advertisements ...

Last post by SP Cook - Today at 02:13:54 PM

There is a strip club at Exit 9 of I-77 in Princeton, WV that used to have billboards as far south as Georgia advertising "We bare all in West Virginia", full nudity strippers, apparently, not being allowed in the other states the truckers would pass through on the way north. 

Haven't seen one in a few years.  Strip club is still there, though.

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As to the lottery, and gambling generally, it used to be illegal to advertise gambling in a state that didn't have it.  I remember that Ohio had the lottery way earlier than WV or KY, but around my way they couldn't have billboards for it across the river.  In fact, they could not show the drawings on TV, since the TV stations was all in WV, and the newspaper printed the winning numbers the next day as a news story, not allowed to carry the lottery ad with yesterday's numbers atop the banner.  Eventually the Supreme Court said that all that was unconstitutional. 

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

Last post by kurumi - Today at 02:12:34 PM

'home', used by many as a flowery, positive way

It's just one of those "code words" used by people selling real estate. Home sounds better than house, because it evokes the thought that you will be at home if you buy that property. A house is just a building. A home is a feeling.

Agreed, "home" should be singular and not allowed for advertising

"luxury townhomes" (condos)
"curb appeal" (if street is not 100% capacity with parked cars, you can see the curb)

and my favorite back in the day, "4 br 2 ba" (3/2 but they put carpet in the garage)

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Road Enthusiasts Meetings / Re: SWPA25 Road Enthusiast Mee...

Last post by Rothman - Today at 01:33:52 PM

I'm out as well. I'm limping home from the Bakersfield meet, and other western adventures, dog-tired with not enough time to recover for another meet.

Hope you're doing okay health-wise.