How One's Perceptions are Shaped by Where One Lives

[jmacswimmer]

My favorite has to be the Kum and Go. A stop at one of those is sure provide hours of spontaneous quips for any road trip crew. 

Oh, I should have included that in my "top" list.  Kum and Go stations are always good.

During a family trip to Colorado in 2016, all my brother & I had to do was start snickering from the back seat at the sight of one and my parents were instantly uncomfortable 

[billpa]

We have

Esso

Petro-Canada

those are the large ones...

then we have a few smaller ones:

Shell

Ultramar

A few others: Canadian Tire Gas, Pioneer, Husky, Mobil. I'd also put Shell as a big chain here.
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I recall seeing Husky when in Alberta. Until that point I thought they just made gas pumps because I'd seen the name on them at lots of stations over the years.

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[hbelkins]

Krist and Holiday extend west from the UP of Michigan into Wisconsin and Minnesota. There are also Holidays in North Dakota.

And Casey's in Minnesota.

[bcroadguy]

Chevron is pretty common in BC.
All of the Real Canadian Superstore gas stations recently rebranded as Mobil.

[Max Rockatansky]

We just got back from Oregon and a road trip to Crater Lake.  The concept of not pumping your own gas was totally alien to my wife's niece.  She thought I was lying when I told her it was the law in Oregon and thought there was no way a state would want to employ people for such an easier task.  I thought that was a somewhat odd statement considering she has been to Mexico numerous times.

[Flint1979]

Here's another Michigan gas station chain which is really only in the Thumb area. It's called Speedy Q and they have locations as far south as I-69, as far west as Bay City but most locations are in the Thumb. That one and Beacon & Bridge are Michigan only chains. I know this because they named it Beacon & Bridge in honor of Michigan's lighthouses and the Mackinac Bridge. Beacon & Bridge also carries as many Made in Michigan products as possible.

[SkyPesos]

We just got back from Oregon and a road trip to Crater Lake.  The concept of not pumping your own gas was totally alien to my wife's niece.  She thought I was lying when I told her it was the law in Oregon and thought there was no way a state would want to employ people for such an easier task.  I thought that was a somewhat odd statement considering she has been to Mexico numerous times.

My parents were surprised by the "not being able to pump your own gas"  law too the first time we stopped for gas in NJ.

[Mapmikey]

for some reason i thought sinclair was a wyoming/colorado thing. i know there's a sinclair wyoming, and i think there's a refinery there... well, there's some sort of industrial thingy there.. there is (or was? ...  i need to pay more attention when i'm driving) one in midtown fort collins.

Definitely based out of SLC.  Probably why there are so many around here.

Chris

Sinclair was nationwide until 1969 when ARCO bought them and for anti-trust reasons were required to divest, then the eastern US locations were sold to BP.

There are a handful east of the Mississippi River in the midwest, but I was quite shocked several months ago to see one in New Jersey.  There are at least a few, all new, including this one in Swedesboro.

[GaryV]

Here's a repurposed Sinclair sign on Rochester Road in Clawson, MI

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5290613,-83.1369876,3a,32.3y,325.22h,89.93t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1ssSySsBfaKM9hbKZMmLQg9Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en

[1995hoo]

Going back to the original topic, "How One's Perceptions Are Shaped by Where One Lives," I think the Traffic lights on roads with high speed limits" thread poses a good example of someone's perceptions being shaped by the prevailing speed limits and use of traffic lights in his home area.

Original post:

What roads have speed limits of 55 mph or higher, and yet still have traffic lights on them?
What is the highest posted speed limit in the US on a road with traffic lights?

A road segment must be signed for at least 50 mph and have at least three consecutive traffic lights to qualify. You have to start over if the speed limit drops, or it becomes a freeway.

NY 104, divided and signed 55 mph, has ten or so lights in the Town of Ontario.
NY 531 is also famous for 65 mph facing a signal (though it may drop to 55 briefly on the approach, and can't qualify anyway because only one light).

First reply to that:

This is very common in states with 4-lane expressway/divided highway networks. There are plenty of examples in Ohio and West Virginia with lights on routes with 60-65mph speed limits. If you're going down to 55mph, there are lots of examples in Kentucky, Virginia, and Pennsylvania as well.

OP's reply to the statement that it's "very common":

I'm skeptical that such roads have many stoplights on stretches signed 55 mph or more.

[SkyPesos]

I live in a state with a set maximum signed speed limit of 70 mph on interstates and 55 mph on rural two lanes. When I saw a 70 mph sign on a Nevada 2-lane for the first time on GSV a while ago, I thought it was absurd, until someone on the forum told me that it's normal.

[Flint1979]

I live in a state with a set maximum signed speed limit of 70 mph on interstates and 55 mph on rural two lanes. When I saw a 70 mph sign on a Nevada 2-lane for the first time on GSV a while ago, I thought it was absurd, until someone on the forum told me that it's normal.

They have 75 mph signed in Texas on two lane roads that around this region that would be signed as 55 mph.

[webny99]

Going back to the original topic, "How One's Perceptions Are Shaped by Where One Lives," I think the Traffic lights on roads with high speed limits" thread poses a good example of someone's perceptions being shaped by the prevailing speed limits and use of traffic lights in his home area.

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First reply to that:

This is very common in states with 4-lane expressway/divided highway networks. There are plenty of examples in Ohio and West Virginia with lights on routes with 60-65mph speed limits. If you're going down to 55mph, there are lots of examples in Kentucky, Virginia, and Pennsylvania as well.

OP's reply to the statement that it's "very common":

I'm skeptical that such roads have many stoplights on stretches signed 55 mph or more.

Partly a misconception on my part, but partly also just poor word choice. If you're including 55 mph, it is indeed very common. It's even relatively common here in NY, as was established in that thread. But if you limit it to above 55 mph, then if anything that thread only reinforced my belief that traffic signals in 60 and 65 zones are fairly rare and states that have many such examples are the exception rather than the rule.

(I also maintain that the NY 104 example I cited is somewhat unique in terms of the frequency of signals in a 55 mph zone, with 10 signals in 6.2 miles.)