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#1

International Highways / Re: Australian highways, freew...

Last post by Stephane Dumas - Today at 06:17:54 AM

A new kind of roundabout give some headaches to Sydney drivers.

WELP, it didn't last even a week, and the roundabout is now gone!

I guess the guy who came with that idea of a rounabout is now fired or being promoted as a janitor.

#2

Weather / Re: What's your weather curren...

Last post by hotdogPi - Today at 05:38:13 AM

Somehow I didn't even hear about Chantal (which was only a tropical depression) until I was curious and looked up if anything existed. It made landfall in South Carolina early on Sunday and is headed straight for me, resulting in chances of light rain pretty much the entire week here in Massachusetts.

#3

International Highways / Re: Australian highways, freew...

Last post by Great Lakes Roads - Today at 04:50:43 AM

A new kind of roundabout give some headaches to Sydney drivers.

WELP, it didn't last even a week, and the roundabout is now gone!

#4

Southeast / Re: Complete NC 540 Project

Last post by architect77 - Today at 04:44:48 AM

I would think they will rename it to I-640 or something.  540 doesn't make sense for a complete beltway, that usually commands an even digit.

I believe they will change the designation as early as 2028 to begin with an even number for the complete, independent loop NCX40 / I-X40. In 25 years when the bonds are paid off I predict it will become a single interstate I-X40.

But people on here who discuss naming and continuity in naming for highways in NC will do an about face with 540 and defiantly object to the prospect of it being renamed for some reason.

#5

General Highway Talk / Re: State Clinches - Various C...

Last post by achilles765 - Today at 03:15:19 AM

How many U.S. States have you...

Been in, including visits where you never left the vehicle or landed plane

25- - LA, TX, MS, AL, GA, TN, VA, WV, MD, MA, RI, CT, NH, FL, DE, NJ, NY, PA, NM, AZ, CA, DC, AR, MO

Set foot in, including airport only visits

25- - LA, TX, MS, AL, GA, TN, VA, WV, MD, MA, RI, CT, NH, FL, DE, NJ, NY, PA, NM, AZ, CA, DC, AR, MO

Set foot in, excluding airport only visits

25- - LA, TX, MS, AL, GA, TN, VA, WV, MD, MA, RI, CT, NH, FL, DE, NJ, NY, PA, NM, AZ, CA, DC, AR, MO

Set foot in, excluding clinch motivated border crossings with less than a mile of penetration
??

Spent the night in

15 -- LA, TX, MS, AL, Fl, CT, MA, NY, NJ, VA, TN, CA, AZ, NM, MO

Spent more than one night in a row in

9 -LA, TX, MS, TN, CT, NY, NJ, CA, FL, MO

Driven a vehicle in

22- - LA, TX, MS, AL, GA, FL, TN, VA, WV, MA, MD, DC, PA, NY, NJ, DE, CT, MA, RI, NM, AZ, CA

Ridden a plane in (landing or taking off only)

2-- LA, NY

Ridden a helicopter in

0

Ridden a train in

6-- LA, TX, CT, NY, MA, DC

Ridden a moving boat in

1-TX, MO

Been on a boat in

2-- TX, LA, MO

Ridden a roller coaster in

2-- TX, LA

#6

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

Last post by Scott5114 - July 07, 2025, 11:18:18 PM

Here's a new one for me that I hope doesn't spread any further. I went to El Pollo Loco today (it's a West Coast chain that's basically KFC if it were Mexican). In the drive thru, instead of a menu board, there was just a sign with a QR code on it that allegedly went to the menu. (I don't know if this is standard for this chain, or just this location.) And of course, because nothing on mobile ever works right, it wouldn't load on my phone (and I tried two different browsers). So I had to basically hold up the line while the lady read off the menu to me until I found something that sounded like what I wanted.

I really don't understand why we have to make absolutely everything go through shitty-ass mobile phones when we had ways of doing things that worked perfectly fine for decades before that. Why would anyone want to look at the menu on the phone instead of just looking at a sign?

I went back to El Pollo Loco today and was pleased to find that they have an actual menu board now. Actually, they now have so many menu boards they sort of block the view of each other. But I'd rather have that than no menu at all.

#7

Weather / Re: Severe Weather

Last post by bing101 - July 07, 2025, 11:16:19 PM

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2025/07/07/525872/more-than-100-people-died-in-texas-historic-floods-here-are-some-of-their-stories/

100 people found dead from the Texas Floods.

#8

Sports / Re: Formula 1 racing chatter!

Last post by formulanone - July 07, 2025, 10:32:17 PM

We saw it in the theater the previous weekend; it was better than I thought it would be. I'd always wanted to see a F1-themed movie so I gave it lots of latitude. Some of the cameos and nods to history were enjoyable.

I was surprised that strategy was such a large part of the movie.

Me too, it was a realistic touch but I think it was also competing with Drive to Survive and couldn't really ignore it. With that, nods to sponsors' requirements, testing, and training.

Sure, if you want to pick it apart, there's a lot of holes, leaps of faith, and it's not perfectly accurate. So what?...it's a movie. I won't spoil it for those that want to see it.

Also, I think Javier Bardem did a pretty good job of being an ex-racer team boss.

#9

Sports / Re: NASCAR

Last post by Takumi - July 07, 2025, 10:14:03 PM

Wonder what King Richard thinks about SVG and his playoff qualification now?

(I missed the race, but sounds like I missed a good one.)

My take on road course wins is that they just as legitimate (if not more) than restrictor plate tracks.  Road courses at least require skill, plate track winners often just lucky.

If NASCAR ran as many road courses back in the 1990s-2000s as they do now, Jeff Gordon would have retired with about a dozen championships.

Mark Martin would have certainly had at least one.

Assuming he doesn't have his accident at Michigan, Ernie Irvan probably wins in 1994 in that instance as well.

I wonder, other than rovals (Phoenix, Charlotte, Texas World, Homestead when it was built in '95) how many road courses aside from Sonoma and Watkins Glen had enough garage and pit road space for a full Cup (and possibly Busch/trucks) field at the time. Maybe just Laguna Seca and Road America.

Never been to any of them so I have no idea if they have what's required, but just off the top of my head:

Mid-Ohio
Montreal
Portland
Sebring
Daytona has a road course

Yeah, those all would fit. Probably Road Atlanta too.

#10

Pacific Southwest / Re: California SR 19 (Rosemead...

Last post by oscar - July 07, 2025, 09:38:03 PM

Per the Caltrans postmile tool the remaining segment of CA-19 in Bellflower and Downey has been relinquished, meaning this route has gone the way of CA-225 and no longer exists.

Except it still does legislatively.  That's how zombie state highways and signage keep happening.

Then again, CA 187 still exists legislatively, but that didn't stop those of us at Travel Mapping (back when I was managing California -- now cl94 has taken that over) from treating it as relinquished to death.

The rub for CA 19 is that route 164 is signed as part of CA 19, and 164 has not been relinquished to death. ISTM that means CA 19 is not yet toast for TM purposes. I had been waiting for 164 to completely disappear before killing off 19 in TM. But now it's up to cl94 to decide what to do with the non-164 parts of CA 19.