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Cocoa Crispies posted:If not faster: https://www.google.com/maps/@25.7829397,-80.400706,3a,75y,353.85h,68.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_5fP3wTpRzwZNcVnUpkmDw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Yeah, the pine trees growing between the tracks are a good indicator of the last time that rail siding was used. I'd blast through that at 60mph without batting an eyelash.
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CharlieWhiskey posted:Yeah, the pine trees growing between the tracks are a good indicator of the last time that rail siding was used. I'd blast through that at 60mph without batting an eyelash. You can also tell because all the flashing lights have been aimed at the ground, for being an abandoned track, the crossing appears to be in great condition. . . There is a 14 track crossing in my town that was reworked a couple years with the same type of concrete blocks, today my coworkers call it the spine crusher.
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Oct 27, 2015 17:06
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Just had a fuckstick in a nissan merge into my lane because he realized he was going to behind a dumptruck at a light. No look, no signal, just went. So I lay on the horn and the gently caress brakechecks me. Previously he had been riding my rear end for a while so I guess he was in a hurry, hope he crashes into something soon. Really made me realize how leaving space and watching for stupidity like this is important because most likely he would have just merged into me if I was up a little more or not paying attention.
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Oct 27, 2015 17:51
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Cocoa Crispies posted:If not faster: https://www.google.com/maps/@25.7829397,-80.400706,3a,75y,353.85h,68.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_5fP3wTpRzwZNcVnUpkmDw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Crotch Fruit posted:You can also tell because all the flashing lights have been aimed at the ground, for being an abandoned track, the crossing appears to be in great condition. . . There is a 14 track crossing in my town that was reworked a couple years with the same type of concrete blocks, today my coworkers call it the spine crusher. Those concrete panels were made by my company; crossings are kind of my thing. We build our panels to suit the track up to 1/8" below the top of the rail, but we can only cover flat up to a 10'-0" tie. The rest of the crossing depends on how far the contractor cut back to re-grade the roadway, ideally the driving surface is graded no more than 3" below or 1" above the elevation of the rail, 30' out from the track. In areas with high-speed, banked curves or with multiple tracks, you'll have no choice but to slow down. The driving surface across multiple sets of panels will depend on how well the railroad can tamp up each track in relation to each other. Our panels are designed to lift out for resurfacing, but I bet 14 sets tracks would take nearly 2 weeks  All railroad crossings are not alike, even with top of the line crossing materials it really depends on the territory and track geometry. Some you can take at 100 and some you'll still have to crawl over. e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GssvNBPB3A0 NoWake fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Oct 27, 2015 |
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Oct 27, 2015 18:50
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There is a crossing on a highway I drive occasionally that if you don't slow down a lot you will have a bad time. It's near a town and an interchange but the speed limit is still like 55 there. No extra warning signs or anything. Just a lot of gouges in the pavement.
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Oct 27, 2015 18:58
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Crotch Fruit posted:You can also tell because all the flashing lights have been aimed at the ground, for being an abandoned track, the crossing appears to be in great condition. . . There is a 14 track crossing in my town that was reworked a couple years with the same type of concrete blocks, today my coworkers call it the spine crusher. There's a busy rail line I have to drive over to get to work, it's a bog standard two lane road crossing. The line owners have to come out every year to smooth it over because it just refuses to stop settling.. either the asphalt pushes up or the rails sink and it turns into a 5mph creeper crossing. Been driving over it for 14 years now too.. either they aren't willing to invest in fixing it permanently or it's actually unfixable (considering how much of the surrounding area is former wetlands this might be true).
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Oct 27, 2015 18:59
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Some of the rail crossings here, if you do slow down, you'll miss the landing ramp or fall into a hole. Flooring it is a safer strategy.
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Oct 27, 2015 19:00
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I almost got killed by some fuckhead in a rented van tonight  Yes please try and race some other rear end in a top hat in a powerful audi around three lanes of rush hour traffic, then cut across all of those lanes without indicating because the line in the right lane was one car shorter than the one in the left lane. No don't worry, I got dem Brembos, I'll be fine. And this morning, some tourist was so distracted by our city's fine landmarks that he tried to merge into me/force me into a bunch of cyclists. What is it about today?
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Oct 27, 2015 20:25
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I was waiting to cross a side street, but this time at an intersection with traffic lights. I was waiting for the walk signal and across the narrow two lane street was a couple of other people. I could see a BMW starting to edge through the red light to make a left onto this street, planning to make his own left turn signal. Light changes and I start to cross, the other two people start from their side. The BMW jumps the light to make his left, cutting off the oncoming motorists who'd been waiting for green on the other side of the intersection. He guns it to blast through the intersection, brakes for a millisecond because pedestrians are crossing and then he guns it again and shoots between me and the people crossing from the other side, almost killing all three of us. Tears off down the street. I hate people. Until they actually kill someone they couldn't care less. Hell, they might not even care after they kill someone if it saves them waiting fifteen seconds. Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Oct 28, 2015 |
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Oct 28, 2015 09:05
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Yesterday on my way to the gym I'm on a ramp interchange from the interstate to a beltway. The lane I'm in turns into an exit-only lane which conveniently is the one I'm taking. It's rush hour and the beltway itself is heavily congested but the exit-only lane isn't so I just maintain my speed. Some fuckass in a new maroon Dart going about half as fast as I am pulls into my lane just in front of me and I had to swerve around him at slalom speed, just missing him. If there'd been a guardrail, I'd definitely have crunched into it. Luckily it's a decent-sized shoulder with rumble strips so I just got some angry bees for a second. I laid on my horn the whole time as soon as I saw him moving over...then I notice when I'm past him that he has his left turn signal on, as if he's going to merge back into traffic. He doesn't. He stays behind me all the way to the light at the end of the offramp. When it turns green, I go left, and with his left turn signal on the entiiiiiire time, he takes...a right.
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Oct 28, 2015 17:02
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Goddamn Illinois drivers man. Clear weather, dry pavement, they blaze around 10-20 mph over the speed limit, no fucks given. Neighborhood? Good place to drive 40. Open road posted 45 mph? 60 mph all day long. Highway? If you aren't going 75+ you're a speedbump. But as soon as a raindrop hits asphalt it's 5-10 below the posted speed limit. gently caress you, just drive normal, your tires still have some grip. 
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Oct 28, 2015 17:10
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xzzy posted:But as soon as a raindrop hits asphalt it's 5-10 below the posted speed limit. gently caress you, just drive normal, your tires still have some grip. 15-25 mph under at the first flakes of snow, back to normal once a few inches drop, 15-25 mph under if it snows again after a few weeks of clear roads as if you just forgot weeks' of poor weather driving.
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Oct 28, 2015 17:18
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xzzy posted:Goddamn Illinois drivers man. Clear weather, dry pavement, they blaze around 10-20 mph over the speed limit, no fucks given. Neighborhood? Good place to drive 40. Open road posted 45 mph? 60 mph all day long. Highway? If you aren't going 75+ you're a speedbump. Last night it was sprinkling lightly at 55*. I poo poo you not there were at least three cars crawling at 15MPH in a 35 riding their brakes with their highs and hazards on along a 10 mile stretch that I was on looking absolutely terrified of the world around them. While I was doing 40-45 on a motorcycle with tires that could use a replace soon and having no problems with grip.
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Oct 28, 2015 19:16
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Was using a crosswalk last night and some guy in an SUV came to a screeching halt about two feet from hitting me. He was entirely past the stop sign before he even started slowing down so I leapt backward in alarm as the idiot didn't even look like he was going to stop. I don't know what the hurry was, there was no one behind me and the light about 10 seconds further down was red anyway. I just pointed the the crosswalk and stop sign; the passenger smiled and waved. I was so shaken I wasn't even mad at the time, sure am pissed now though.
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Oct 28, 2015 20:07
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A section of the highway I commute on is turning the left shoulder into a new lane, so the normally straight lanes swerve a bit when entering or exiting that section. The swerve is pretty sharp and abrupt on exit which is terrible in itself; it's almost as much as a full lane change. A lot of cars in front of me today didn't notice the swerve and so they all basically made unintentional lane changes. The real terrible thing was that a bunch of people in the far left lane ended up driving on the left shoulder and were so oblivious that they kept going for miles, kicking up all these rocks and debris that pelted me and everyone behind them in adjacent lanes. These guys seriously did not notice the solid yellow line to their right along with all the scrap metal and plastic that they were running over. One guy kept going for like 5 miles before finally settling on hogging the (real) left lane like a normal idiot.
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Oct 28, 2015 20:10
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Passed a guy in a Jeep who was obviously more interested in something other than driving. About 45 seconds later I see him in the rearview mirror drifting off the roadway, swerve back on, get two wheels into the air and land it back down. 
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Oct 28, 2015 20:49
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This morning, I saw TWO different cars going the wrong way down a divided highway. 2 different cars on 2 different highways. I really need a dashcam/gopro thing for my motorbike that i can easily keep power to when running.
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Oct 28, 2015 21:56
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See, I was in Beloit, WI for work a couple months ago and the road outside the hotel was a divided road with numerous DO NOT ENTER and WRONG WAY and ONE-WAY ONLY signs and I thought "this has to be overkill". Guess not! The road also had numerous signs declaring where the left turn lanes began, even though they were painfully obvious because of the nature of a divided road. I can only guess to help you avoid hitting a curb when it snows, but now I'm not so sure.
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Oct 28, 2015 22:00
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They should put one way spikes into onramps. I don't know if it'll prevent idiots from driving the wrong way, I mean if they're that stupid flat tires aren't going to stop them, but at least it'll hit them in the wallet when it comes time for repairs.
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Oct 28, 2015 22:06
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xzzy posted:They should put one way spikes into onramps. I don't know if it'll prevent idiots from driving the wrong way, I mean if they're that stupid flat tires aren't going to stop them, but at least it'll hit them in the wallet when it comes time for repairs. I agree with the concept, but it wont stop drunks. My dad was a cop and "pulled over" a car that was at a complete stop, front grill butted up against a tree, with rear tires spinning in the mud. Driver was in the seat, car was in gear, and the man was very shocked that he thought he was still driving down the road but a cop was somehow rapping his knuckles on the car window. Guy went to the hospital, then detox, then jail.
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Oct 28, 2015 22:27
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Well yeah, as soon as you do something to stop idiots the universe creates a better idiot. But the numbers would be better, right? 
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Oct 28, 2015 22:29
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CharlieWhiskey posted:My dad was a cop and "pulled over" a car that was at a complete stop, front grill butted up against a tree, with rear tires spinning in the mud. Driver was in the seat, car was in gear, and the man was very shocked that he thought he was still driving down the road but a cop was somehow rapping his knuckles on the car window. Guy went to the hospital, then detox, then jail. My brother once witnessed a drunk woman plow into a telephone pole with enough force to eject the engine and transaxle out of the engine compartment and onto the pavement. She got out of the car, observed the damage and when someone told her they'd dialed 911 she got back into the car and tried to start it again to drive away.
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Oct 28, 2015 22:32
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nitrogen posted:This morning, I saw TWO different cars going the wrong way down a divided highway. 2 different cars on 2 different highways. How's russia this time of year?
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Oct 28, 2015 23:14
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xzzy posted:They should put one way spikes into onramps. I don't know if it'll prevent idiots from driving the wrong way, I mean if they're that stupid flat tires aren't going to stop them, but at least it'll hit them in the wallet when it comes time for repairs. There's also the "but emergency vehicles might need to use it" angle. Retractable bollards, everywhere.
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Oct 28, 2015 23:17
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nm posted:How's russia this time of year? s/russia/texas/ It's lovely! It'll be nice till January when it gets cold finally. Strangely enough, The DFW area is a lot less stupid toward motorcyclists than many other areas, so I have that going for me, which is nice.
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Oct 28, 2015 23:38
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I wish there was a picture to accompany this.
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IOwnCalculus posted:I wish there was a picture to accompany this. That would suck a lot to run over if you weren't paying attention.
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Oct 29, 2015 01:04
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xzzy posted:Goddamn Illinois drivers man. Clear weather, dry pavement, they blaze around 10-20 mph over the speed limit, no fucks given. Neighborhood? Good place to drive 40. Open road posted 45 mph? 60 mph all day long. Highway? If you aren't going 75+ you're a speedbump. Unfortunately I've seen a LOT of beat up (and some nice) vehicles with drat near bald tires driving near me. They're usually easy to spot though, because like you said, they're going 10-15 under in the rain or snow, or go way too fast and lose control because of a combo of stupid driving and bad tires. I still love seeing SUVs and 4WD trucks stuck in the ditches or wiped out on the side of the road during winter, always a guarantee of some clown with no understanding of physics going balls-out on an ice covered road and losing the battle of human vs. nature.
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Oct 29, 2015 02:26
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IOwnCalculus posted:There's also the "but emergency vehicles might need to use it" angle. I think you mean "equip all emergency vehicles with treads."
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Oct 29, 2015 03:27
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xzzy posted:Goddamn Illinois drivers man. Clear weather, dry pavement, they blaze around 10-20 mph over the speed limit, no fucks given. Neighborhood? Good place to drive 40. Open road posted 45 mph? 60 mph all day long. Highway? If you aren't going 75+ you're a speedbump. This is 100% dead nuts accurate. Every. loving. Year.
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Oct 29, 2015 03:31
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nitrogen posted:It's lovely! It'll be nice till January when it gets cold finally. So, like, what? 40? Do you stock up on bread and milk if it's about to dip below freezing?
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Oct 29, 2015 14:52
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Yes. Nobody worries too much about overnight freezes, but if daytime temps are predicted to be below freezing, people hit the grocery stores like hurricane Katrina has come back to life. And the once-every-few-years we get actual winter weather (a dusting of snow or a couple hours of freezing rain)? Woah boy - stay the hell off the roads. The craziest poo poo you've ever seen is about to go down.
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Oct 29, 2015 15:11
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nitrogen posted:s/russia/texas/ Hi DFW Buddy! During the freeze in March this year I was in Oklahoma for work - snow everywhere, daytime temps in the single digits, and SNOW PLOWS on the highway. I was very confused about why no one was answering when I called the office, until my boss told me that they were closed for the weather.
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Oct 29, 2015 15:30
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That's what really bugs me about winter driving. I'm super comfortable dealing with ice and snow, I even find it fun. But if it's snowing I just stay at home because I don't want to deal with all the shitbirds that should have stayed at home. If the roads were empty? I'd be tearing up and down the place having a ball.
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Oct 29, 2015 15:31
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Yeah, we don't get actual winter down here and are completely unprepared for driving in that mess. Winter tires are not a thing we worry about.
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Oct 29, 2015 15:37
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I have a Jeep and love driving in the snow but I work from home literally every time there's snow on the roads because I don't trust anyone else for a second, and I will for sure end up sitting in a two hour gridlock to travel 8 miles home, so why even bother.
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I was parked off to the side of a gas station parking lot putting air in my tires, and got backed in to by a kid in an SUV pulling out of a parking spot. He hit me in the exact same spot I got hit a few years ago by another person in a parking lot. I guess my rear drivers side door is invisible to people trying to maneuver in a parking lot. Luckily, I wasn't trying to flll the rear tire, or he would have pinned me against the car. On the up side, he felt bad about it and handed over insurance information right away. My E90 might be getting that door replaced for the second time.
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Oct 29, 2015 16:41
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IOwnCalculus posted:I wish there was a picture to accompany this.
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When entering the motorway on my way home some chav in a saxo decided that I wasn't allowed to merge in front of him. So he floored it to crawl into the kooiaap on the back of an HGV. Fine be that way. I slowed down and merged behind him. However Barry McChav didn't back off from the HGV. So to the annoyance of the trucker behind me I decided to slow a few kph to create a safety zone, maybe 75 metres long. Turns out that was a good idea, as someone in front of the HGV did something that caused the HGV to drop every anchor onboard. I have to say for something that weighs 45 tonnes those HGVs do loving stop quickly. I stomped the brakes as hard as I could, yay for ABS. The lorry behind me turned out to be empty and out braked me hard. The chav's saxo ended up with the bonnet wedged under the kooiaap and looked pretty much totalled. Cops were called, and when they showed up Barry McChav got a ticket and 2 points on his license.
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What does "kooiaap" mean? It looks Finnish!
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