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Quote from: D-Dey65 on April 25, 2024, 09:13:55 AMQuote from: TheGrassGuy on March 27, 2023, 11:11:12 PM[gigantic image]
"cookie monster expressway"
Quote from: vdeane on Today at 09:34:15 PMIt's only a couple of miles though. Not really a big issue.Quote from: rhen_var on Today at 04:02:28 PMI think that's actually pretty neat. It's funded by Cavenue, not taxes, and regular cars can still use the lane (except for dedicated testing times, which, as noted in the video, only happens when the loss of the third lane isn't an issue). It's also now a unique little stretch of freeway which is cool to see.It's still less versatile, though, since you can't just move into that lane to pass people. It's basically a separate one-lane carriageway, so you're stuck behind whoever the slowest driver in it is.
Quote from: Brandon on Today at 05:45:12 PMAnd these are just the ones IDOT marks in the wild. District 1 has a number of unmarked state routes that lack any sort of signage whatsoever to denote them as state routes, including the circular postmiles. The spur of the IL-53 freeway between Dundee Road and Lake-Cook Road comes to mind as just one example.
Quote from: kkt on April 27, 2024, 06:10:17 PMQuote from: vdeane on April 27, 2024, 05:14:03 PMA couple money-related ones. One is the short expiration cycle for rewards points at Price Chopper/Market32/Market Bistro. The checkouts only give the option to use them when you have more than 500. You can use them before, but have to specifically request it, so I usually wait until then unless I see that some are expiring. Well, I somehow missed the thing on my receipts mentioning points expiring (either it's gotten less obvious or I got so used to hitting 500 before this happens that I've stopped checking as vigorously as I should) until I finished checking out today, and now I have a few points expiring by the end of the month with no way to use them in time.
Well, yeah, the purpose of loyalty points is not to give you stuff for free, it's to keep you coming back. Putting limitations in the way of redeeming the points keeps the program from costing them too much.
Quote from: rhen_var on Today at 04:02:28 PMI think that's actually pretty neat. It's funded by Cavenue, not taxes, and regular cars can still use the lane (except for dedicated testing times, which, as noted in the video, only happens when the loss of the third lane isn't an issue). It's also now a unique little stretch of freeway which is cool to see.It's still less versatile, though, since you can't just move into that lane to pass people. It's basically a separate one-lane carriageway, so you're stuck behind whoever the slowest driver in it is.