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Aug 22, 2016 14:08
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i finally read the geography of nowhere after it being mentioned here so many times its very good
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Aug 22, 2016 15:27
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Aug 24, 2016 08:38
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Bloody posted:getting mad over w being pronounced west in a context where w means west is kind of weird But using "west" can make your meaning ambiguous when you tack it on to a highway number. You either mean "the westbound side of the highway," which might make sense to someone unfamiliar with Minneapolis's roads, or "the western fork of the highway which runs north to south." Just say I-35 "W," save everybody at least a split second of confusion.
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Aug 24, 2016 14:16
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nah you pretty much always mean "the highway named ## West" which is a unique identifier for a set of lanes traveling in a specific direction (which may or may not be west)
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Aug 24, 2016 14:23
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Bloody posted:nah you pretty much always mean "the highway named ## West" which is a unique identifier for a set of lanes traveling in a specific direction (which may or may not be west) It isn't named I-35 West, it's named I-35 W, for exactly the reason I gave.
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Aug 24, 2016 14:24
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well somebody should've pointed that out like 7 pages ago
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Aug 24, 2016 14:26
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and name your poo poo less stupidly
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Aug 24, 2016 14:27
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Literally millions of flyover state five figgy fucktards have no problem understanding the naming scheme so
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Aug 24, 2016 14:30
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that said, gpses are dumb and inconsistent. sometimes i hear them call the quadrants here "ENN DOUBLE YOU" instead of "NORTHWEST" or whatever. they almost always called the N/S directionals in arlington just the letter, probably because they stick them at the end of the street for whatever reason
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Aug 24, 2016 14:48
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at the date posted:five figgy fucktards i miss this thread
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at the date posted:Literally millions of flyover state five figgy fucktards have no problem understanding the naming scheme so in it voted 5 dubya
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Aug 24, 2016 15:24
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at the date posted:But using "west" can make your meaning ambiguous when you tack it on to a highway number. You either mean "the westbound side of the highway," which might make sense to someone unfamiliar with Minneapolis's roads, or "the western fork of the highway which runs north to south." Just say I-35 "W," save everybody at least a split second of confusion. aaaaactually interstates ending in odd numbers are north-south, so there is no way you can head westbound or eastbound on i35. i35w or i35e has to be the name of the road when it splits into two parallel sections, not the direction pf traffic.
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Aug 24, 2016 23:25
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I've never been to mpls but there are sections of 35W that run E/W you dumb fuckers are supposed to use numbers in front of the interstate number to indicate forks and rings like everywhere else in the goddamn country e: I guess DFW does it too, and on i35 again. is it a double city thing? theflyingexecutive fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Aug 24, 2016 |
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Aug 24, 2016 23:34
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theflyingexecutive posted:I've never been to mpls but there are sections of 35W that run E/W i think it is for splits bigger than loops that go around a city some sections may be geographically heading east of west but you are still getting on i35 northbound or southbound
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Aug 24, 2016 23:41
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nah they've been phasing out those old suffixes for awhile now next time there's a widening project or smth they'll come down and those signs'll be replaced w/ proper numbers
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Aug 24, 2016 23:41
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actually wikipedia says that the naming system for i35e and i35w was changed to the 3 digit loop names in 1973 but i35e/w names were grandfathered in
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Aug 24, 2016 23:46
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i don't think there are any plans to rename it: quote:Historically, other interstates were given directional suffixes. On every other interstate, the directional suffixes were phased out by giving the route a loop or spur designation (such as I-270 in Maryland, which was once I-70S), or in some cases were assigned a different route number (such as I-76, which was once I-80S). In the case of I-35, since both branches return to a unified interstate beyond the twin cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, the AASHTO committees allowed the suffixes to remain.
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Aug 24, 2016 23:51
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C.H.O.M.E posted:i think it is for splits bigger than loops that go around a city yeah I get that, but going west to get on i35 east southbound is some bullshit
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Aug 24, 2016 23:52
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C.H.O.M.E posted:i don't think there are any plans to rename it: i blame texas
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Aug 24, 2016 23:55
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C.H.O.M.E posted:i don't think there are any plans to rename it: if they insist on pretending that mpls-st Paul and Dallas-ft worth are pairs of cities of equal importance, they should do i35M i35P i35D and i35W or something
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Aug 24, 2016 23:55
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i sure hope this thing gets built http://www.georgetownrosslyngondola.com/
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Endless Mike posted:i sure hope this thing gets built lmao
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Aug 25, 2016 23:14
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same
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Aug 25, 2016 23:14
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loving pussies, all of them
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Aug 25, 2016 23:37
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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haha every car has a sign: fire? don't pull the loving cord sick? don't pull the loving cord terrorist? don't pull the loving cord a police officer or mta employee tells you to pull the cord? don't pull the loving cord
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Aug 25, 2016 23:42
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I'm at a local bar and they've got some cool old CTA memorabilia, a bus stop sign and a fare box  
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Aug 26, 2016 00:31
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theflyingexecutive posted:haha every car has a sign: what happens when you pull the cord?
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lampey posted:what happens when you pull the cord? e-brake and electricity cutoff
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Aug 26, 2016 18:16
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https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/769364399157018625 Not sure how comparable trains are but still that's like 5x the price
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Aug 27, 2016 10:24
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we have real safety standards here
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Bloody posted:we have real safety standards here No driving trains while drinking dunk's 
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Aug 27, 2016 16:03
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pointsofdata posted:https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/769364399157018625 the first article mentions the Amtrak contracts include long term support but its not mentioned in the brief snippet of the second article.
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Aug 27, 2016 17:06
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also they're apparently different trains with the Amtrak ones meeting the more stringent American safety requirements.
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Aug 27, 2016 17:08
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Getting people to use rail instead of cars is why more important for transportation safety anyway. (and most rail incidents are caused by cars)
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Aug 27, 2016 20:01
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It's hard to find comparable statistics but eyeballing these two doesn't convince me that trains in the USA are any safer than Europe (especially excluding the old Soviet states) http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Railway_safety_statistics https://oli.org/about-us/news/collisions-casulties
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also the US trains are 186mph vs 125mph, which is a big difference. hes that guy that takes a picture of a base model shitbox into the dealer and wants the super expensive sportscar for the same price
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Shaggar posted:also they're apparently different trains with the Amtrak ones meeting the more stringent American safety requirements. engineering a
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