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Sports / Re: 2024 College Football Seas...

Last post by NWI_Irish96 - Today at 02:00:28 PM

Alabama got the boot in the 12 team bracket in favor of SMU:

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/42854711/oregon-georgia-boise-state-arizona-state-top-cfp-field

Rightly or wrongly, the committee made it clear that teams wouldn't be significantly punished for losing a championship game compared to teams that didn't play in one. Neither Texas nor Penn State moved below Notre Dame. SMU did drop below Indiana but not Alabama.

#2

Northeast / Re: Connecticut News

Last post by abqtraveler - Today at 01:55:13 PM

Even with the addition of aux lanes on I-95, it helps but it also doesn't.  It's driver behavior, a lot of drivers try to merge right away even though they have a mile to do so.  That in itself creates congestion b/c people don't use the whole merge aux lane.

The US-7/Merritt interchange really irks me.  Just because the DOT would create a full free flow interchange w/o stoplights doesn't mean the US-7 expressway will ever be built.  Give me a break.  What is wrong with free flowing movements??

There are plans to smooth out US-7 and Grist Mill Rd.  US-7 would be more of a smoothed out curve or s-curve.  SO they're helping congestion on one mile and then hampering it at the next mile.  But it's all political.

https://portal.ct.gov/dotnorwalkwiltonpp-102-020?language=en_US

Scroll down more than half way for a map
https://www.coastalconnecticuttimes.com/exploring-merritt-7-a-deep-dive-into-this-growing-area-of-norwalk/

It truly is all political, since the Merritt Parkway Conservancy and its high-paid lawyers would never allow the completion of a proper freeway-to-freeway connection at the Route 7/15 junction.

But yet again, since any plans to extend Super 7 beyond Gristmill Road are long dead, there is some logic behind Alternative 26, as it will be about a mile south of where the current freeway ends. The can do this, but for it to work, they need to maintain full access control between Route 15 and Gristmill Road.

#3

Northeast / Re: New York

Last post by Jim - Today at 01:54:02 PM

I've never understood this practice in New York.  How is it more useful to tell drivers what the speed limit used to be before you got to the sign rather than what it is becoming when you pass it?  I have never been able to come up with any upside to doing it this way.

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Sports / Re: 2024 College Football Seas...

Last post by Max Rockatansky - Today at 01:42:54 PM

Alabama got the boot in the 12 team bracket in favor of SMU:

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/42854711/oregon-georgia-boise-state-arizona-state-top-cfp-field

#5

Mid-South / Re: U.S. 287 Corridor Intersta...

Last post by Bobby5280 - Today at 01:36:14 PM

That "I-27N" idea is so stupid. The signs would look very odd to anyone driving South on I-27N.

If mainline I-27 was built to Texline and then a spur of I-27 was built North of Dumas to (probably) Stratford the spur should get a 3-digit I-x27 designation. It's only 32 miles from Dumas to Stratford and 48 miles from Dumas to the OK panhandle border. That's short enough for a standard 3 digit route.

Unless New Mexico and Colorado get on board in a big way with promoting Interstate highway construction for the Ports to Plains Corridor I don't realistically see I-27 get any farther North than Dumas.

#6

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

Last post by wanderer2575 - Today at 01:33:01 PM

New gantry and signs on the wbd I-96 exit ramp to Wixom Road in Novi.  Left sign in Clearview font, right sign in Highway Gothic font, as shown in the plans.

#7

Off-Topic / Re: __________ is/are overrate...

Last post by Max Rockatansky - Today at 01:15:23 PM

Mission Impossible has been consistently been putting out better movies since Ghost Protocol.  The exception to that being Skyfall which also happens to be one of my favorite 007 movies.  Spectre lost me when the incorporated the novel era plot point about Blofeld being 007's adoptive brother.

But yeah, Rotten Tomatoes isn't the end all be all for how someone should enjoy a movie.  What movies people like is a highly subjective thing to begin with.  There is all sorts of B movies or just plain bad ones I get way more enjoyment out of compared to stuff movie critics like. 

Don't get me started on Mission Impossible. Ghost Protocol had a contrived plot and didn't know the first thing about how nuclear missiles work. The most recent one; they would've been able to make it a one parter if half the run time wasn't taken up by villainous monologues

Some people just want to enjoy a popcorn movie.  I'm happy with being entertained and hanging with my wife for a couple hours.   

I'm not a film critic nor have ambitions to be one.  What I do know is that real world accuracy (historical, scientific, or otherwise) doesn't always translate as an entertainment medium in film format.   

#8

Off-Topic / Re: __________ is/are overrate...

Last post by kernals12 - Today at 01:09:32 PM

Mission Impossible has been consistently been putting out better movies since Ghost Protocol.  The exception to that being Skyfall which also happens to be one of my favorite 007 movies.  Spectre lost me when the incorporated the novel era plot point about Blofeld being 007's adoptive brother.

But yeah, Rotten Tomatoes isn't the end all be all for how someone should enjoy a movie.  What movies people like is a highly subjective thing to begin with.  There is all sorts of B movies or just plain bad ones I get way more enjoyment out of compared to stuff movie critics like. 

Don't get me started on Mission Impossible. Ghost Protocol had a contrived plot and didn't know the first thing about how nuclear missiles work. The most recent one; they would've been able to make it a one parter if half the run time wasn't taken up by villainous monologues

#9

Mid-Atlantic / Re: US 50/301(Chesapeake Bay B...

Last post by RoadPelican - Today at 01:01:00 PM

Yes, plenty of people from DC go to VA Beach and the NC Outer Banks to vacation. But to your point, it would be nice to have a 2nd bay crossing go from Chesapeake Beach to Cambridge. DC traffic can use MD Route 4 instead of all the DC and BAL traffic going on US 50.

#10

Off-Topic / Re: __________ is/are overrate...

Last post by kurumi - Today at 12:58:32 PM

Turkey and ham. (though I guess if people line up around the block for Honeybaked before holidays, there's an argument that it's not overrated)