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General Highway Talk / MOVED: Interstate 20 Eastern E...

Last post by Scott5114 - Today at 01:36:20 AM

This topic has been moved to Fictional Highways.

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=34826.0

#2

Central States / Re: US66 Pony Truss Bridge at ...

Last post by Scott5114 - Today at 01:30:42 AM

Man, Oklahoma can really do some cool stuff when it feels like it. (Which makes it frustrating that they don't bother half the time.)

#3

Suggestions and Questions / Re: Theme Change?

Last post by Scott5114 - Today at 01:28:30 AM

Could we potentially just change the background colors from white and navy blue to something greener as an interim solution?

That would be about as much work as redoing the theme entirely, honestly.

Which a couple of us are working on, just...stuff comes up.

Will the current theme still be the default for mobile users?

Button Copy 2 will be the default theme for all users. However, the revised theme will be based on the current theme (i.e. it's basically the current theme with different colors), so it will behave the same way as the current theme does, and not like the original Button Copy. (If, after all that, you prefer the current theme as it is, that will be available as an option.)

#4

Traffic Control / Re: Guess the exit number chal...

Last post by Great Lakes Roads - Today at 12:15:08 AM

Exit 43A on US 127. DDI interchange on I-94 in Jackson.

#5

General Highway Talk / Re: Beltways That Work, and Be...

Last post by mgk920 - May 16, 2024, 11:13:42 PM

Whenever I am transiting Chicagoland, I'll use I-94 through the city, except during the commuter times when I'll use the I-294 Tri-State Tollway around.  Most other people use the Tollway, though.


Mike

Best Chicago bypass?  I-39 to I-80. 

Or to I-74

OTOH, it you are driving  to or from  somewhere in the I-41 corridor in Wisconsin . . .

Mike

#6

Sports / Re: General NBA thread

Last post by The Ghostbuster - May 16, 2024, 11:09:01 PM

Well, that was a surprise. The Denver Nuggets led the Minnesota Timberwolves 3 games to 2. Denver has won the last three games. Finishing off Minnesota should have been easy, right? Guess again. Denver really laid an egg, being blown out by the Timberwolves 115-70: https://www.nba.com/game/den-vs-min-0042300236/box-score. Game 7 is Sunday back in Denver. Will the Nuggets recover and advance to the Western Conference Finals, or will Minnesota upset them again and reach the WCF for the first time since 2004 (the only time they ever got that far in the playoffs).

#7

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Update on I-69 Extension i...

Last post by westerninterloper - May 16, 2024, 11:08:42 PM

Of course any interstate will bring sprawl, what won't I-69 be different? Indy is a big city with a large metro area. Of course developers will take advantage of the I-69 corridor now it's being extended to build more mixed use developments.

Look at Muncie to the Northeast. I-69 fueled that city's growth providing a direct link to Indy and its closest suburbs. The Southwest side ain't any different.

As a more recent example, Fishers has grown by 1,000% since 1990 from less than 10,000 to around 100,000. Noblesville is up 400% in the same timespan, both fueled by access to Interstate 69. Anderson and Muncie have been in slow-steady decline, though I think Anderson will recover when Indy sprawl covers all the land between SR 37 and Anderson.

Shelbyville has been on 74 for what, 50 years(?), and has never experienced a population explosion. If I-69 was fueling growth in Fishers, why didn't Fishers explode in 1971 when the highway was built?

No doubt, Fishers and Noblesville benefit from I-69 but their growth has a lot more to do with being adjacent to the more populated and affluent part of Marion County.

I worked on a research project in Shelbyville about 25 years ago, and interviewed a lot of local leaders - all of them were talking about how to draw growth their direction; they lamented how the town's doctors all lived in Carmel, and the town had a "hick" reputation; no high-end housing being built there. We examined the community's reception to new Hispanic residents, it was quite eye-opening, but as I've learned over the years, nothing particularly unique to that town.

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Off-Topic / Re: TV shows set in cities tha...

Last post by Max Rockatansky - May 16, 2024, 10:32:52 PM

Fallout was kind of a mixed bag on the road layout of Los Angeles.  There was a couple highway signs but nothing quite to the scale of what I got accustomed to in New Vegas.  I don't recall seeing a single reassurance shield at any point during the run of the show.

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Off-Topic / Re: Oddities that defy convent...

Last post by Max Rockatansky - May 16, 2024, 10:26:00 PM

The bottom was somewhere and people were only going to stay away so long with cheap properties available.  Now parts of the city are becoming popular for gentrification. 

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Off-Topic / Re: TV shows set in cities tha...

Last post by bing101 - May 16, 2024, 10:13:56 PM

The most common TV Show/Movie geographic mistakes are the numerous TV and streaming movies that are actually shot in Canada (usually near Vancouver) that are supposed to take place in various locations in the US.  I presume that is why all of the outdoor scenery in these movies resembles the Pacific northwest.  The biggest tell for me are the street signs, that are Canadian style like the unlabeled One-Way signs, RR crossing signs, etc.  They never try to hide or alter them.  The most blatant example I ever saw was in a movie that was supposed to be taking place in Texas.  In one scene there was a Canadian metric speed limit sign that said "Maximum", not Speed Limit.  Nothing in that scene looked like a ranch, which is what it was supposed to be.

Are the Texas scenes filmed in Alberta's cities like Edmonton and Calgary? Yes its to offset the expensive filming costs in Vancouver and Toronto type situation.

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/calgary-s-film-production-ready-to-jump-into-high-gear-with-new-soundstages-1.6229752

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-cannes-france-international-film-awards-1.6852475

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-screen-industries-1.6668748