News:

The AARoads Wiki is live! Come check it out!

Main Menu

Recent posts

#1
General Highway Talk / Re: Google Maps just fucking S...
Last post by Bruce - Today at 05:45:36 AM
Quote from: LilianaUwU on February 13, 2025, 02:42:11 PM
Quote from: JayhawkCO on February 13, 2025, 10:41:35 AM
Quote from: LilianaUwU on February 12, 2025, 10:33:59 PM
Quote from: Molandfreak on February 12, 2025, 10:11:56 PMConsidering that you have never visited the state or mountain, how much did you actually use the name Mount McKinley growing up?
I never heard of Denali before this, so never for either name.

Interesting. Maybe just because I like mountains a lot, but I would think that most people know the name of the highest point on their continent, but maybe not.

Have you heard of Mt. Logan?
I don't pay attention to mountains.

Relevant to the conversation: the tallest point in Quebec has different names in English and French. The English name (Mount Caubvick) honors an Inuk woman, while the French name (Mont D'Iberville) is for a explorer from New France who never got close to the area.

I think the English name wins on this one.
#2
Pacific Southwest / Re: California
Last post by pderocco - Today at 05:03:45 AM
My guess is that this is very temporary, until they do the necessary rigamarole to relinquish the road to the county, and it will never be signed. Perhaps there was a short period in which Old Highway 58 through Hinkley was called 58U, and no one noticed.
#3
Off-Topic / Re: My idea for US currency re...
Last post by kalvado - Today at 03:55:00 AM
Quote from: freebrickproductions on Today at 12:24:53 AMWeren't the larger bills above $100 (such as $500, $1,000, etc.) also used primarily to help transfer cash between banks, and not necessarily mean for public use despite technically being legal tender?
That's for really high value bills. 100k was the biggest one for that, I believe.
#4
Off-Topic / Re: My idea for US currency re...
Last post by Big John - Today at 03:47:54 AM
Earlier versions (1970s) of Let's Make a Deal sometimes used high-denomination bills as prizes or props.
#5
Pacific Southwest / Re: California
Last post by oscar - Today at 03:06:08 AM
^ FWIW, Caltrans' Postmile Query Tool indicates that bypassed old CA 58 in the Kramer Junction area is still state-maintained route 58U, rather than turned over to local maintenance. However, when I was last out there it was not signed as such or as part of locally-maintained CA 58 Business (Boron).
#6
Pacific Southwest / Re: California
Last post by emory - Today at 02:28:44 AM
I noticed on the maps Wikipedia uses, the former CA 58 bypassed near Kramer Junction in San Bernardino county is now labeled as CA 58U. Is there an official list of state highway logs that reflects this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S._Route_395_in_California&oldid=1243820034#/map/0
#7
Traffic Control / Re: "Outdated" Traffic Laws Th...
Last post by 6a - Today at 02:02:26 AM
Quote from: kalvado on February 06, 2025, 12:39:07 PM
Quote from: ran4sh on February 06, 2025, 12:02:58 PM
Quote from: thenetwork on February 06, 2025, 01:11:42 AMThis idea came to mind after getting stuck behind 3 school buses who came up to a fully modern railroad crossing with flashing lights and crossing gates.  Each of the 3 buses pulled up to the stop line, engaged air brakes and flashers, opened up their side door to check for trains.

I can understand this law being a good one back in the day when there were a lot more railroad crossings were lucky to have flashing red lights -- even rarer to have crossing gates.

But now in modern times when most crossings are fully equipped and more reliable, I think the law should be rewritten to say that for at least school buses, the full ordeal of full stop, flashers an open doors should only apply to crossings with only crossbucks and nothing else.  Otherwise, buses should treat it as a yield as most other vehicles do.

Other laws that could use a little tweaking?

 

Isn't it already in the MUTCD or similar, that passive railroad crossings (the ones with no lights or gates) are required to have stop signs now? Which means all traffic will be stopping anyway not just certain classes of motor vehicles (I doubt that school buses specifically would be given an exemption if regular buses are not)
As far as I understand, some (many?) states adopted some paranoid procedure after a train crashed in a full school bus in 1930s. It is something like - full stop, engine off, open door and window, listen for the train before proceeding. Way beyond stop sign requirements.

I drive a city bus, not a school bus. We have to stop, open the door and look both ways. There was indeed a crash in the 1930s. A school bus was in a snowstorm, and at the time they just had to stop and look. The driver couldn't see the train because of the snow and something like 30 kids were killed. In Ohio at least, school buses have a lot more to do, but I think that's more administrative than actual law. They have to stop, pop the brake, shift to neutral, kill the fans (I think they have a switch for that), then open the door AND a window.

We have to stop here, even though there obviously won't be any trains rolling through, but it's still marked. Drivers have gotten tickets for blowing through it.

https://imgur.com/a/AH0ZJN3
#8
General Highway Talk / Re: XY Challenge
Last post by xonhulu - Today at 01:55:14 AM
QuoteFebruary 14: Post a junction of a route ending in 5 and a route ending in 9, in your state.

I-5 and OR 99 in Central Point:



#9
General Highway Talk / Re: Google Maps just fucking S...
Last post by JayhawkCO - Today at 01:05:45 AM
Quote from: TheCatalyst31 on February 13, 2025, 09:36:12 PM
Quote from: JayhawkCO on February 13, 2025, 06:05:26 PM
Quote from: LilianaUwU on February 13, 2025, 02:42:11 PM
Quote from: JayhawkCO on February 13, 2025, 10:41:35 AM
Quote from: LilianaUwU on February 12, 2025, 10:33:59 PM
Quote from: Molandfreak on February 12, 2025, 10:11:56 PMConsidering that you have never visited the state or mountain, how much did you actually use the name Mount McKinley growing up?
I never heard of Denali before this, so never for either name.

Interesting. Maybe just because I like mountains a lot, but I would think that most people know the name of the highest point on their continent, but maybe not.

Have you heard of Mt. Logan?
I don't pay attention to mountains.

Highest point in your own country just seems like something you'd learn in school.

I imagine that depends on your country. I can't see schools in, say, the Benelux countries bothering with that.

I have a hunch that in the Benelux countries, you're taught about Mont Blanc and Mt Elbrus though.
#10
Bridges / Re: Why do bridges make strang...
Last post by freebrickproductions - Today at 01:01:31 AM
That California example sounds like what you hear on the newer bridges on Memorial Parkway here in Huntsville. The older ones and the ones along I-565 have a higher-pitched sound to them as you cross them.

Opinions expressed here on belong solely to the poster and do not represent or reflect the opinions or beliefs of AARoads, its creators and/or associates.