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#1

General Highway Talk / Re: XY Challenge

Last post by 74/171FAN - Today at 06:25:51 AM

The east end of PA 588 is at PA 288 just west of Zelienople.

PA 588 EAST AT PA 288 (1) by Mark Moore, on Flickr

#2

Traffic Control / Re: Unique, Odd, or Interestin...

Last post by 74/171FAN - Today at 06:15:00 AM

I was asking about the black on yellow NOTICE placard on these signs. I haven't seen any assembly use NOTICE before—usually DETOUR (in black on orange) would be used instead of NOTICE.

In regard to these, I believe I have seen this before, but my brain cannot think of a specific location off the top of my head.

#3

Off-Topic / Re: RIP Pope Francis

Last post by SEWIGuy - Today at 05:35:19 AM

Now that he's dead, let's remove most religious holidays from the calendar of civic holidays.

In the United States, there is one such holiday. Christmas. And it could be argued that it's as much of a civic holiday as a religious one these days.

#4

General Highway Talk / Re: Wisconsin residents file s...

Last post by SEWIGuy - Today at 05:26:37 AM

Have you lived under a rock for 30 years or more?

I don't think pushback against Walmart locations has been as organized, or generated as much publicity, as the recent efforts against Buc-ee's locations.

Here in Lawton we have two Walmart Supercenter locations, plus a smaller Walmart Neighborhood Market store. When the first one opened in the late 1990's the main opposition was a local grocery store operator who had a monopoly on the market. Most locals wanted the new Walmart built. The second one was built a few years later on the West side of town, across 67th Street from a high income neighborhood. A few of the mansion owners complained to the city council, but the store was approved anyway. There was no resistance to the more recently built Neighborhood market store on the South side of town.

Most of the complaints about Walmart are general in nature -what the company has been doing to kill a lot of small, local businesses. It's not so much a location-specific thing. I think some of that general heat has lifted a bit on Walmart because we have so many of these damned dollar stores all over the place now.

At some point you need to realize that what happens in Oklahoma isn't really all that indicative of what goes on in the rest of the country.

#5

Off-Topic / Re: RIP Pope Francis

Last post by LilianaUwU - Today at 05:26:35 AM

Now that he's dead, let's remove most religious holidays from the calendar of civic holidays.

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Off-Topic / Re: RIP Pope Francis

Last post by SEWIGuy - Today at 04:57:42 AM

Right. But I wouldn't necessarily say it's "strong." It's marginal at best.

If I'm remembering the numbers correctly, the number of people aged 21-ish who attend church regularly has risen from 1 in 20 to 1 in 7.  (Someone else, correct me if I'm wrong.)  Nearly tripling is not what I'd call 'marginal growth'.

Not saying you're wrong, but I'd be shocked if it were that high.

Yeah that doesn't sound remotely accurate.

#7

Sports / Re: Fútbol chatter

Last post by english si - Today at 04:35:40 AM

The League One and League Two promotion races are pretty interesting. Less so for the Championship.

The Championship only got boring about three games ago (less than 2 weeks ago) when Sheffield started to fall behind the pace, handing the two automatics to Leeds and Burnley yesterday. And lets not forget that on Thursday every team from 14th up had a mathematical possibility to go up (and every team from 12th down was mathematically possible to go down). It's still the case that 10th can make the play offs.

League One has been somewhat dull at the top outside of two teams battling for 2nd and 6th - Birmingham sowed up a top 2 finish, and then the title, very early despite having played 2 games less than the pack. Yes, Wycombe and Wrexham keep changing who's in the 2nd automatic promotion spot - mostly due to playing at different times - but, while Charlton and Stockport are not far behind, they've not yet really posed a threat* to the W teams. And the top 5 got so far ahead that it was just a two (and sometimes three) horse race for 6th.

They are both interesting, but in different ways - still pretty wide open in the Championship, two 2-horse races in League One.

*Well, until yesterday's 0-4 win at Adams Park for Charlton.

We were never actually in a relegation fight

Where did I say you were?

You were, however, a couple of bad results away from being dragged into a relegation fight (unlike Southampton who were a couple of good results away from finally getting into the fight to stay up. Never happened though!). And the safety given out by Arsenal beating Ipswich means just as much to Man U and Spurs as it does Everton or West Ham - perhaps a bit different for the Europa League semi-finalists as they haven't had the threat of the drop come up for years and were never quite bad enough to fall into the fight this season, but they can now not worry about the league and focus on the three games to get into the Champions League. Safety is a big sigh of relief for all the teams saved by Arsenal! And Everton and Man U have double reason to celebrate as it stopped Liverpool winning the league this weekend. Spurs will happily gift them the points they need (if they still do) on Sunday though...

#8

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Indiana Notes

Last post by ITB - Today at 03:47:13 AM

Came across a legal summary on what can happen if someone doesn't pay their tolls in Indiana. It's worth a read, if only to understand what steps can be taken regarding unpaid toll balances. The lesson to be learned is simple: It's going to catch up with you, one way or another, so pay them tolls!

#9

Southeast / Re: I-26

Last post by Great Lakes Roads - Today at 03:32:32 AM

Found a random video on the I-26 Connector project in Asheville. NCDOT has changed the design for the Patton Ave interchange, which goes from an overpass (Patton over I-26) to an underpass (I-26 over Patton). 

#10

General Highway Talk / Re: XY Challenge

Last post by xonhulu - Today at 02:37:10 AM

April 22: Post a junction where a route with an 8 in the tens place meets another route with an 8 in the tens place, in your state or province. Qualifying photos will show a route numbered in the eighties meeting a different route numbered in the eighties.

I-82 begins at I-84 near Hermiston:



OR 281 and OR 282 south of Hood River: