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Started by mgk920, May 30, 2012, 02:33:31 AM

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peterj920

Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 08, 2022, 02:44:57 PM
It would be nice if they could just jump straight to building the new bridge that is gonna go there once the six laning project starts.

This may actually reduce the cost since the trucking company's insurance has to pay to fix it. A truck hitting the Wis 22 bridge over Wis 16 saved that interchange since insurance paid for repairs and wouldn't cover conversion to an intersection.


skluth

Quote from: peterj920 on August 08, 2022, 03:05:35 PM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 08, 2022, 02:44:57 PM
It would be nice if they could just jump straight to building the new bridge that is gonna go there once the six laning project starts.

This may actually reduce the cost since the trucking company's insurance has to pay to fix it. A truck hitting the Wis 22 bridge over Wis 16 saved that interchange since insurance paid for repairs and wouldn't cover conversion to an intersection.

Intersection? This is Wisconsin we're discussing. They'd undoubtedly have converted it to a beautifully landscaped roundabout.

triplemultiplex

Quote from: skluth on August 08, 2022, 03:59:24 PM
Quote from: peterj920 on August 08, 2022, 03:05:35 PM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 08, 2022, 02:44:57 PM
It would be nice if they could just jump straight to building the new bridge that is gonna go there once the six laning project starts.

This may actually reduce the cost since the trucking company's insurance has to pay to fix it. A truck hitting the Wis 22 bridge over Wis 16 saved that interchange since insurance paid for repairs and wouldn't cover conversion to an intersection.

Intersection? This is Wisconsin we're discussing. They'd undoubtedly have converted it to a beautifully landscaped roundabout.

With a Kwik Trip and a Culvers in two of the quadrants. :-D
"That's just like... your opinion, man."

SEWIGuy

Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 08, 2022, 04:16:58 PM
Quote from: skluth on August 08, 2022, 03:59:24 PM
Quote from: peterj920 on August 08, 2022, 03:05:35 PM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 08, 2022, 02:44:57 PM
It would be nice if they could just jump straight to building the new bridge that is gonna go there once the six laning project starts.

This may actually reduce the cost since the trucking company's insurance has to pay to fix it. A truck hitting the Wis 22 bridge over Wis 16 saved that interchange since insurance paid for repairs and wouldn't cover conversion to an intersection.

Intersection? This is Wisconsin we're discussing. They'd undoubtedly have converted it to a beautifully landscaped roundabout.

With a Kwik Trip and a Culvers in two of the quadrants. :-D

From your lips to God's ears...

mgk920

Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 08, 2022, 02:44:57 PM
It would be nice if they could just jump straight to building the new bridge that is gonna go there once the six laning project starts.

And IIRC, that bridge WAS in its final location and configuration for the pending I-41 upgrade had it not been hit.

Mike

mrose

Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 08, 2022, 04:16:58 PM
Quote from: skluth on August 08, 2022, 03:59:24 PM
Quote from: peterj920 on August 08, 2022, 03:05:35 PM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 08, 2022, 02:44:57 PM
It would be nice if they could just jump straight to building the new bridge that is gonna go there once the six laning project starts.

This may actually reduce the cost since the trucking company's insurance has to pay to fix it. A truck hitting the Wis 22 bridge over Wis 16 saved that interchange since insurance paid for repairs and wouldn't cover conversion to an intersection.

Intersection? This is Wisconsin we're discussing. They'd undoubtedly have converted it to a beautifully landscaped roundabout.

With a Kwik Trip and a Culvers in two of the quadrants. :-D

The other two would be a Fleet Farm and a Farm & Fleet.

hobsini2

Quote from: mrose on August 10, 2022, 12:43:21 AM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 08, 2022, 04:16:58 PM
Quote from: skluth on August 08, 2022, 03:59:24 PM
Quote from: peterj920 on August 08, 2022, 03:05:35 PM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 08, 2022, 02:44:57 PM
It would be nice if they could just jump straight to building the new bridge that is gonna go there once the six laning project starts.

This may actually reduce the cost since the trucking company's insurance has to pay to fix it. A truck hitting the Wis 22 bridge over Wis 16 saved that interchange since insurance paid for repairs and wouldn't cover conversion to an intersection.

Intersection? This is Wisconsin we're discussing. They'd undoubtedly have converted it to a beautifully landscaped roundabout.

With a Kwik Trip and a Culvers in two of the quadrants. :-D

The other two would be a Fleet Farm and a Farm & Fleet.

And a random cheese or porn shop.
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The Ghostbuster

My mother and late stepfather always called Farm & Fleet "Farm & Barn".

triplemultiplex

If you have an exit with a Kwik Trip, a Culvers and a Fleet Farm, you win the prize for Most "Wisconsin" Exit.

(Sorry Stevens Point; close but no cigar.  That Fleet Farm is too far off the interstate to count. :P )
"That's just like... your opinion, man."

mgk920

Well, Fleet-Farm recently moved a major base of their operations from somewhere in Nordern Minnesoda to a building on the south side of the City of Appleton, WI.

Mike

Great Lakes Roads

Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 10, 2022, 12:05:25 PM
If you have an exit with a Kwik Trip, a Culvers and a Fleet Farm, you win the prize for Most "Wisconsin" Exit.

(Sorry Stevens Point; close but no cigar.  That Fleet Farm is too far off the interstate to count. :P )

Don't forget about Menards!  :-D

triplemultiplex

Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on August 10, 2022, 12:11:13 PM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 10, 2022, 12:05:25 PM
If you have an exit with a Kwik Trip, a Culvers and a Fleet Farm, you win the prize for Most "Wisconsin" Exit.

(Sorry Stevens Point; close but no cigar.  That Fleet Farm is too far off the interstate to count. :P )

Don't forget about Menards!  :-D

No, fuck Menards and their goddamn mail-in rebates.  Just give people the damn sale price at checkout, you bastards.  Also, quit turning your home improvement store into a grocery store.
"That's just like... your opinion, man."

hobsini2

Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 10, 2022, 12:16:07 PM
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on August 10, 2022, 12:11:13 PM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 10, 2022, 12:05:25 PM
If you have an exit with a Kwik Trip, a Culvers and a Fleet Farm, you win the prize for Most "Wisconsin" Exit.

(Sorry Stevens Point; close but no cigar.  That Fleet Farm is too far off the interstate to count. :P )

Don't forget about Menards!  :-D

No, fuck Menards and their goddamn mail-in rebates.  Just give people the damn sale price at checkout, you bastards.  Also, quit turning your home improvement store into a grocery store.
Menard's USED to be a Wisconsin thing. They are too national now. Culver's is creeping into that territory now.
I knew it. I'm surrounded by assholes. Keep firing, assholes! - Dark Helmet (Spaceballs)

SEWIGuy

Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 10, 2022, 12:16:07 PM
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on August 10, 2022, 12:11:13 PM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 10, 2022, 12:05:25 PM
If you have an exit with a Kwik Trip, a Culvers and a Fleet Farm, you win the prize for Most "Wisconsin" Exit.

(Sorry Stevens Point; close but no cigar.  That Fleet Farm is too far off the interstate to count. :P )

Don't forget about Menards!  :-D

No, fuck Menards and their goddamn mail-in rebates.  Just give people the damn sale price at checkout, you bastards.  Also, quit turning your home improvement store into a grocery store.


Hey at least they now have one universal rebate form. 

gr8daynegb

Woodmans and Festival Foods should be on the Wisconsin list.  Many Festival Foods seem to like to pair themselves claim to Menards
So Lone Star now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.

TheHighwayMan3561

The Kwik Trip has to prominently be selling New Glarus beer.
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SEWIGuy

Quote from: gr8daynegb on August 10, 2022, 06:28:06 PM
Woodmans and Festival Foods should be on the Wisconsin list.  Many Festival Foods seem to like to pair themselves claim to Menards

I think that's just because the developer works with both companies. There isn't a formal relationship between the companies.

JoePCool14

Quote from: gr8daynegb on August 10, 2022, 06:28:06 PM
Woodmans and Festival Foods should be on the Wisconsin list.  Many Festival Foods seem to like to pair themselves claim to Menards

Woodman's is also turning into a "not-Wisconsin" thing by creeping into Illinois.

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mgk920

Quote from: gr8daynegb on August 10, 2022, 06:28:06 PM
Woodmans and Festival Foods should be on the Wisconsin list.  Many Festival Foods seem to like to pair themselves claim to Menards

None of the Festvals here in the Appleton, WI area are located anywhere close to Menards stores.  They do appear to have joint marketing for fuel with the Kwik Trips in the area, though.

:-P

At least the west Appleton Fleet-Farm is still pump then pay for cash fuel.

:nod:

Mike

Papa Emeritus

Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 10, 2022, 12:16:07 PM
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on August 10, 2022, 12:11:13 PM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 10, 2022, 12:05:25 PM
If you have an exit with a Kwik Trip, a Culvers and a Fleet Farm, you win the prize for Most "Wisconsin" Exit.

(Sorry Stevens Point; close but no cigar.  That Fleet Farm is too far off the interstate to count. :P )

Don't forget about Menards!  :-D

No, fuck Menards and their goddamn mail-in rebates.  Just give people the damn sale price at checkout, you bastards.  Also, quit turning your home improvement store into a grocery store.

Menards is even selling tampons at some of their stores now. Although I understand that margins on Mountain Dew, Jack Links, and Tampax are probably higher than their margins on plywood, their newer, larger stores take a lot longer to navigate than their older stores that only sold home improvement products did. If I want to go to a giant home improvement store where I have to walk a long way to get what I need, I'll go to Home Depot.

Big John

Quote from: mgk920 on August 11, 2022, 01:01:50 PM
Quote from: gr8daynegb on August 10, 2022, 06:28:06 PM
Woodmans and Festival Foods should be on the Wisconsin list.  Many Festival Foods seem to like to pair themselves claim to Menards

None of the Festvals here in the Appleton, WI area are located anywhere close to Menards stores.  They do appear to have joint marketing for fuel with the Kwik Trips in the area, though.

:-P

:nod:

Mike
To counteract the Pick n Save - BP gas deal?

thspfc

Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 10, 2022, 12:05:25 PM
If you have an exit with a Kwik Trip, a Culvers and a Fleet Farm, you win the prize for Most "Wisconsin" Exit.

(Sorry Stevens Point; close but no cigar.  That Fleet Farm is too far off the interstate to count. :P )
US-10 through there is such a mess. It's the stroad-iest of all the stroads.

JREwing78

Janesville should qualify, with the following within a 1 mile radius of the Hwy 26 and US-14 exits:
- Menards
- Festival Foods
- Woodman's
- Blain's Farm & Fleet (Get outta here w/ that Fleet Farm nonsense! It's Blain's home turf here)
- Culver's (plus at the exits immediately before and after)
- TWO Kwik Trips (plus a rapidly increasing number elsewhere in town)
- A roundabout in front of Menard's

Of course, since it's "Chainsville", we also have about every chain restaurant known to mankind here, and epic Stroadiness.

mgk920

Quote from: thspfc on August 11, 2022, 08:27:50 PM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on August 10, 2022, 12:05:25 PM
If you have an exit with a Kwik Trip, a Culvers and a Fleet Farm, you win the prize for Most "Wisconsin" Exit.

(Sorry Stevens Point; close but no cigar.  That Fleet Farm is too far off the interstate to count. :P )
US-10 through there is such a mess. It's the stroad-iest of all the stroads.

I can see WisDOT turning US 10 through there, including its interchange with I-39, over to TXDOT for needed upgrades, with the NIMBYs having gotten through to deep six WisDOT's planned US 10 bypass.

:nod:

Mike

SSOWorld

Quote from: JREwing78 on August 12, 2022, 11:56:30 AM
Janesville should qualify, with the following within a 1 mile radius of the Hwy 26 and US-14 exits:
- Menards
- Festival Foods
- Woodman's
- Blain's Farm & Fleet (Get outta here w/ that Fleet Farm nonsense! It's Blain's home turf here)
- Culver's (plus at the exits immediately before and after)
- TWO Kwik Trips (plus a rapidly increasing number elsewhere in town)
- A roundabout in front of Menard's

Of course, since it's "Chainsville", we also have about every chain restaurant known to mankind here, and epic Stroadiness.
Throw a whitie's and a waffle house in.
Scott O.

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Ah, the open skies, wind at my back, warm sun on my... wait, where the hell am I?!
As a matter of fact, I do own the road.
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