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#1

Traffic Control / Re: Erroneous road signs

Last post by wanderer2575 - Today at 10:11:09 AM

Exit 344A from northbound I-75 to BL I-75 in St. Ignace MI, just beyond the Mackinac Bridge.  The error is that left turns are prohibited from this ramp,  There is a separate loop ramp (exit 344B) for US-2.  These signs might have been intended to be temporary when roadwork closed the loop ramp and a temporary traffic signal was in place at the top of this ramp.

#2

Off-Topic / Re: "Bert is Evil"

Last post by formulanone - Today at 10:02:11 AM

I don't think the Wayback Machine even has it at all, because someone had their fee-fees hurt by it.

It's none of these things, ten seconds in your favorite web browser will tell you the site is on Wayback but didn't want to host it any longer. If your webpage was a phenomenon in those days, you paid for all that traffic, and there was very little you could do to offset those costs except pay-up or hope to be bought out. The sites are mirrored (here's one without much advertising, from Tripod...yup, still chugging)  if you need your fix.

Or it's because whoever owns Sesame Street is one of those copyright abusers that strike down everything because they don't understand fair use. I'll have to agree that preservation shouldn't be hindered by feelings, though sometimes it's best left behind in the past.

Fair Use is where you use something once for illustration purposes. Example: I use a photo, image, or logo of something to depict it where words could not convey enough information, rather than re-use it multiple times as if it was my own image. This isn't hard to understand; everything doesn't fall under unlimited Fair Use because we want it to, otherwise it would render copyright useless.

There was some outrage from Children's Workshop, but probably because the public Web was still a fad and most of this has more or less blown over by now, though not every company and corporation was trying to enforce the Digital Millennium Copyright Act at that time, either. By then, the joke merged with real-life and completed the circle, and whenever someone stops new content, it's overtaken by a myriad of shiny new things.

#3

Northeast / Re: New York

Last post by crispy93 - Today at 09:57:42 AM

The state must be worried about its budget... I haven't seen this many state troopers on the Thruway since the Great Recession.

Saw six trooper cruisers in LaFayette that had pulled over a car each for speeding through a temporary work zone this past week.

I drove down to Yonkers for the day yesterday, only cop I saw was a trooper ticketing a motorcycle. Otherwise, it was the typical 70 mph raceway down the Taconic/Sprain.

And I found more old signs once I got near the Yonkers train station, here's the remnants of a US 9/NY 9A sign with the old-type "flaired" arrow. Anyone know when they stopped using this design? https://maps.app.goo.gl/P7ragKyLoQuf1eSTA

And a sign for NY-9A "east" (the janky assembly it replaced correctly said "south": https://maps.app.goo.gl/2QHyKTaY9gAPEjfq5

#4

International Highways / Re: UK Roads Thread

Last post by Tom958 - Today at 09:38:19 AM

Here is a tour of the Runcorn Busway.

I've been fascinated with Runcorn since I discovered it as a youthful planning enthusiast in the early seventies. one thing he didn't mention was that, according to one source I came across back then, one purpose of the busway network was to prevent the expressways from needing six lanes instead of four. I'd wondered how the relatively skeletal busway network was expected to accomplish that, but that's because I'd never seen the much more extensive network shown at 2:22 in the video.

While we're on the subject of Runcorn, I also appreciated Jon's video about Runcorn's road system, though I did get the pedantic pleasure of pointing out the unfortunate side effect of reworking the Southern Expressway-westion Link interchange Google Maps link.

#5

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Ashland Avenue Viaduct in ...

Last post by on_wisconsin - Today at 09:04:13 AM

Removing the elevated Ashland Ave (WI 32 in Green Bay) also removes the bridge of Ashland Ave over 5th St.  OTOH, there is more than enough room in the ROW for proper left turn lanes to be built at that and other intersections.  It is now generally accepted that undivided four lanes is an obsolete road striping design.

Boulevard = generic urban multilane in this sense. However, the small amount of 5th St traffic in that area could easily be handled by a RIRO and a crosswalk, full access would be better tho.

#6

Traffic Control / Re: Traffic signal

Last post by mrsman - Today at 08:42:59 AM

Interesting new signal timing that I've noticed more and more in my area (suburban Maryland outside of Washington DC)

It seems like they are introducing more and more leading pedestrian intervals.  This is where the WALK sign goes on for about 3-7 seconds before the parallel green.  The idea is that if pedestrians get a head start, they will already be in the intersection and easier for drivers to see when cars are making turns.  The application of this is pretty straightforward at regular intersections or at intersections with a lagging green arrow. 

What about intersections with a leading green arrow?  If the leading green arrow is only one direction, first they have a red light with a green arrow and a WALK signal on the right.  A few seconds later, green light with green arrow, with a WALK signal on the right.  After the green arrow and yellow arrow are extinguished, opposing crosswalk gets a WALK signal and then a few seconds later opposing traffic gets a green.

Another weird aspect is that even at T-intersections, they are imposing this timing.  So I see a red signal with green arrow, even though there is a continuous sidewalk on my right.  I don't get it.  No right turns are available here, why delay the green?

#7

General Highway Talk / Re: XY Challenge

Last post by 74/171FAN - Today at 08:02:34 AM

July 13: Post the junction of a US highway with a 1 in the tens place and a US highway with a 3 in the tens place.

US 11 and US 30 intersect in Chambersburg, PA, with both on one-way alignments.

US 30 WEST AT US 11 NORTH (1) by Mark Moore, on Flickr

US 30 WEST AT US 11 SOUTH by Mark Moore, on Flickr

#8

General Highway Talk / Re: XY Challenge

Last post by Jim - Today at 07:53:22 AM

US 10 and US 31 in Ludington, Michigan.  July 13, 2007.



US 411 and US 431 in Gadsden, Alabama.  March 30, 2014.



US 30 and US 218 near Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  June 27, 2013.

#9

Off-Topic / Re: AARoads Wordle

Last post by Big John - Today at 07:37:20 AM

HONDA

       

You're up.

#10

Off-Topic / Re: "Bert is Evil"

Last post by Scott5114 - Today at 02:00:19 AM

I mean, I can sort of forgive Sesame Workshop in particular for not wanting fan works of Sesame Street circulating too much. It's a show aimed more or less exclusively at very young children, so it's very unlikely that any sort of fan work is going to be made by or targeted at the original audience, and it probably wouldn't be very good for the original target audience to run across that sort of thing unprepared if they type "big bird" into Mom's phone.

That's somewhat different than Nintendo blowing its top because someone in its all-ages audience dared to write a Zelda fan work where Link and Sidon kiss or whatever.