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#21

General Highway Talk / Re: XY Challenge

Last post by paulthemapguy - July 04, 2025, 10:05:30 PM

July 4: Post the junction of a US highway with a 0 in the tens place and a US highway with a 3 in the tens place.

6+34 together near Sheffield, IL


IL-US6-040ER by Paul Across America, on Flickr

6+138 in Sterling, CO

url=https://flic.kr/p/2qm7bbM]CO-US6-US138W[/url] by Paul Across America, on Flickr

101+30 in Astoria, OR


OR-US30WT by Paul Across America, on Flickr

The next few days:
July 5: Post the junction of a US highway with a 0 in the tens place and a US highway with a 4 in the tens place.
July 6: Post the junction of a US highway with a 0 in the tens place and a US highway with a 5 in the tens place.
July 7: Post the junction of a US highway with a 0 in the tens place and a US highway with a 6 in the tens place.

#22

General Highway Talk / Re: No more 'rainbow' crosswal...

Last post by Scott5114 - July 04, 2025, 10:03:32 PM

I am just saying that the bar is already set low enough. And that is before we start talking about engineering.. 

I would absolutely love more DOT secretaries with any sort of DOT experience.

But whether or not Duffy sucks is entirely orthogonal to whether Buttigieg sucked or not. And whatever your opinions of him, Buttigieg is no longer even in a position to suck (so there is no need to get him to stop; if he sucks he can do it in the comfort of his own home where it doesn't bother anyone), while Duffy is actively sucking in public every day.

#23

Traffic Control / Re: Erroneous road signs

Last post by 74/171FAN - July 04, 2025, 09:55:13 PM

I believe that this OH 3 SB shield is just a little too far east on US 36.

US 36 WEST WEST OF HIGH ST by Mark Moore, on Flickr

#24

General Highway Talk / Re: No more 'rainbow' crosswal...

Last post by Max Rockatansky - July 04, 2025, 09:54:22 PM

I don't think even seen such a crosswalk in person.  Stands to reason given Fresno doesn't have much in the way of pedestrian features to speak of. 

#25

General Highway Talk / Re: No more 'rainbow' crosswal...

Last post by kalvado - July 04, 2025, 09:52:59 PM

You described someone as qualified, if not more qualified than the previous guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

I am just saying that the bar is already set low enough. And that is before we start talking about engineering.. 

[Whataboutism]

#26

General Highway Talk / Re: No more 'rainbow' crosswal...

Last post by Scott5114 - July 04, 2025, 09:50:52 PM

You described someone as qualified, if not more qualified than the previous guy.

Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "but what about X?") is a pejorative for the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of a defense against the original accusation.

From a logical and argumentative point of view, whataboutism is considered a variant of the tu-quoque pattern (Latin 'you too', term for a counter-accusation), which is a subtype of the ad-hominem argument.

The communication intent is often to distract from the content of a topic (red herring).

[100]

#27

General Highway Talk / Re: Lowest-numbered route you ...

Last post by jlam - July 04, 2025, 09:45:07 PM

I finally got a 97, crossing the Columbia on US 97 while passing through on I-84. I also have travels on US 98 and CA 99, so my lowest untraveled number is now 100.

#28

General Highway Talk / Re: Photos of roads not in Goo...

Last post by Max Rockatansky - July 04, 2025, 09:19:26 PM

Crystal Cave Road in Sequoia National Park surprisingly isn't on GSV:

https://www.flickr.com/gp/151828809@N08/3m42E059Md

#29

General Highway Talk / Re: No more 'rainbow' crosswal...

Last post by LilianaUwU - July 04, 2025, 09:07:12 PM

US SecTrans (Sean Duffy) has ordered that all 'rainbow' crosswalks in the USA be removed as being a distraction to drivers.  Thoughts?

I don't think he's competent to serve as Secretary of Transportation. He has no qualifications for the office aside from appearing on two television shows that have the word "road" in the title—which I suspect is the reason he was appointed to the office, as such a naive misunderstanding would be par for the course for the person who made the appointment.

Functionally, this memo can be ignored—the only way USDOT has to enforce compliance is by withholding federal funding. Most streets that are pedestrian-focused enough to have crosswalks are maintained by local agencies that get no federal funding anyway.

In light of that, I strongly encourage Secretary Duffy to take a long walk off a short pier, then to go jump in a lake (I understand there is a rather large one in Wisconsin's 7th district, which he represented in Congress), and when he's done with that to go piss up a rope, and I would say so to Secretary Duffy were he to ask my opinion on the matter, either directly or on a Congressionally-required public comment docket.

You described someone as qualified, if not more qualified than the previous guy.

Equating a TV show guy to a previous elected official who had responsibility for their jurisdiction's transportation program is certainly a stretch.

My neighbor is working on his driveway right now. Would that make him qualify to lead DOT from your perspective?
My biggest memory of Pete B. Is how FAA - which is part of DOT - was going through complete meltdown while big boss was on paternity leave.

At least the entire USDOT wasn't melting down.  FHWA is letting DOTs know that review periods have now doubled, delaying projects.  The scale of damage done since January is astronomical compared to anything prior.

Are we still attacking personalities or talking something else?

I will stop attacking those personalities when they stop attacking my peers' human rights.

#30

Off-Topic / Re: Random Thoughts

Last post by Scott5114 - July 04, 2025, 09:03:02 PM

m not sure why && and || exist. * should work in place of &&, and + should work in place of || as long as you're using it as a Boolean and not an int.

Whaaaat??

Maybe if you're playing bitwise comparison games, but a) why the heck are you bit-fiddling in 2025, and b) even if it works mathematically they are in no way semantically equivalent. If I see if($dog + $cat) I assume the comparison needs to know what the sum of $dog and $cat are, while if($dog || $cat) clearly illustrates that it's looking for true/false values.

Also, maybe it's an abuse of the language, but I very often do test the truth value of integers. It's a very cheap way to avoid divide-by-zero errors, for instance, or to do a "skip this operation if we have nothing to operate on" structure. 

Altogether, to my eyes, " if($orders || $returns) " is a lot easier to understand than "if(($orders > 0) + ($returns > 0))" like you seem to be advocating for.