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Quote from: kkt on July 10, 2025, 01:56:00 PMWhen there's one stripe or dashed line, it should be at the center. When there are two stripes, the center of the road should be between them.
Quote from: kphoger on July 10, 2025, 10:31:20 PMHow is this possible?
Quote from: hbelkins on Today at 11:45:07 AMAlthough if there are any three-head center line paint sprayers in use today, they have to be ancient. The dashed white line hasn't been a thing in 50 years.
Quote from: hbelkins on Today at 11:35:07 AMNope. If the sign was folded down, that meant that there was a truck already on the ramp and no other trucks could use it until the truck already using the ramp was cleared away.
Quote from: kphoger on Today at 09:54:20 AMQuote from: Dirt Roads on July 10, 2025, 10:29:20 PMThat striping technique hails from the days when the dashed line was required to be white.
... although I'm not old enough to remember it actually being a thing.
Quote from: Rothman on June 30, 2025, 03:33:46 PMQuote from: FredAkbar on June 30, 2025, 01:56:16 PMQuote from: mrsman on June 29, 2025, 07:42:59 AMbut they do generally encourage buses on the HOV lanes.
Buses in CA *love* the HOV lanes. Even outside of HOV hours, buses will camp in the left lane holding up traffic (at least here in the Bay Area). It might be that it's safer for them to use the far lane like that rather than a middle lane where they have to contend with traffic on both sides.
Not only in CA. Same in WA.
Quote from: kphoger on July 10, 2025, 03:53:17 PMQuote from: Bitmapped on July 10, 2025, 03:25:51 PMWVDOH used to have flip-down parts of signs for runaway truck ramps that could be used to show when the trucks were in use. They even welded stairs onto the support posts to facilitate workers flipping the sign down: https://maps.app.goo.gl/8DT5N67Fb6QdYeVe7
WVDOH stopped using this style of sign at least a decade ago. New signs no longer have the ability to mark the escape ramp as in use and no longer have the ladder.
typo?
Quote from: 74/171FAN on Today at 06:55:38 AMQuote from: vtk on Today at 02:18:37 AMThe Turnpike is probably the most boring way to cross Ohio
I would say the same thing about I-90 if visiting Erie, PA. If you just clinch I-90 there, of course you would think it is awful, but I think the surface routes in that area are much more interesting and fun to drive than other areas of PA. Ohio is much more interesting when driving through the towns on surface routes and navigating around public squares.
Quote from: froggie on Today at 12:09:43 AMVal, your tour notes note a potential stop on the Vermont side of the old 119 bridge with "an up-close look at the old bridge, if it's still around."Updated.
The old bridge isn't going anywhere. The plan is to convert the old crossing into bike/ped, much like what happened with the old Route 9 bridge upstream.
Quote from: kphoger on Today at 10:09:32 AMIn my mind, a double yellow is just this, with the dashed line removed:
So, if your side opens up to a passing zone, then simply eliminate the solid stripe on your side.