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I think in Illinois you can only claim damages if you can demonstrate the city knew about the issue and neglected to fix it in a "timely manner." So good loving luck proving any of that. You'd basically have to send a certified letter for every single pothole.
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I have been victim of instant depressurization due to pothole more than once. I just head to the nearest shop and have my tire(s) replaced 
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:This wouldn't work, I live in Massachusetts, there isn't enough spraypaint. Didn't a piece of a bridge built in the big dig fall and kill someone due to lovely concrete poured by some company that was giving kickbacks to some MA or Boston politician? Also, didn't someone hit a manhole on 93 and the manhole cover shot up and hit the young driver behind this person in the face and instantly kill her?
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Cacafuego posted:Didn't a piece of a bridge built in the big dig fall and kill someone due to lovely concrete poured by some company that was giving kickbacks to some MA or Boston politician? I kinda remember it being a chunk of overhead concrete in one of the tunnels.
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Dr.Smasher posted:I kinda remember it being a chunk of overhead concrete in one of the tunnels. IIRC some of the concrete slabs and lights were glued to the roof of the tunnel and they used a cheaper non marine approved adhesive. Which works well when you are a major road in a city by the ocean.
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I feel pretty special then, where I live there is an online complaint section on the city web page, and a sub section specifically for potholes. Every one of them has been filled within 24 - 72 hours of someone putting in a complaint. (the complaint tracker even has a map so you can see where the issues are).
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Skreemer posted:I feel pretty special then, where I live there is an online complaint section on the city web page, and a sub section specifically for potholes. Every one of them has been filled within 24 - 72 hours of someone putting in a complaint. (the complaint tracker even has a map so you can see where the issues are). What magical place do you live where infrastructure, local infrastructure, is properly maintained? There was a massive series of potholes in Chicago in an underpass that nearly tore the front wheel off of my old van ~5 years ago. It barely got filled in a year ago E: I can't remember which road specifically, but it was either westbound Cermak, Ogden, or Roosevelt. gently caress that road The Door Frame fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Jul 11, 2017 |
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Spotted this on Imgur earlier, haven't seen it posted here -    You can buy it on ebay! For £10,200, currently.
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AirRaid posted:Spotted this on Imgur earlier, haven't seen it posted here - Wrong thread.
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Sagebrush posted:comrade, when this baby hits eighty-eight meters per minute you're going to see some serious сука блять Somehow, I knew that said "suka blyat" before I Googled it.
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AirRaid posted:Spotted this on Imgur earlier, haven't seen it posted here - My pedestrian crash ratings. Edit: everything is reversable. Wrong thread. However, if you reverse it, you're a terrible person. nm fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Jul 11, 2017 |
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At least it will be a fabulous death.
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But, but, guys. It's a Mustang, not an Impala 
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AirRaid posted:But, but, guys. 
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I like how they paid attention to detail and gave the Mustang emblem in the grill a horn and wings too.AirRaid posted:You can buy it on ebay! For £10,200, currently. More awesome pics in the listing, too. Collateral Damage fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Jul 11, 2017 |
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I'd buy that, take the horn and wings off, and drive it every day.
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Sinestro posted:I'd buy that, take the horn and wings off, and drive it every day.  The current bid isn't a bad price for a -68 V8 Mustang in the UK either, even without the rad paintjob.
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Collateral Damage posted:I like how they paid attention to detail and gave the Mustang emblem in the grill a horn and wings too.. Oh my god I missed that. Though I still like it better in the previous white with blue stripes.
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Cacafuego posted:Didn't a piece of a bridge built in the big dig fall and kill someone due to lovely concrete poured by some company that was giving kickbacks to some MA or Boston politician? Yes both of those things happened. Big Dig: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig_ceiling_collapse and the manhole cover: http://www.wcvb.com/article/teacher-killed-by-airborne-manhole-cover-on-i-93-identified/8231603 xzzy posted:I think in Illinois you can only claim damages if you can demonstrate the city knew about the issue and neglected to fix it in a "timely manner."
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BigPaddy posted:At least it will be a fabulous death. I'd like to think at my wake...getting impaled by a unicorn horn strapped to a Mustang would leave a lasting impression.
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The Door Frame posted:What magical place do you live where infrastructure, local infrastructure, is properly maintained? I think Skreemer is from Dallas? Does the snow in Chicago contribute to degradation? It's probably a hell of a lot easier to manage potholes when you're not dealing with a freeze-thaw cycle.
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It's often freeze-thaw twice daily in winter, it ruins roads so quickly Texas is sounding nicer and nicer every time I gear about it
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Memento posted:Does the snow in Chicago contribute to degradation? It's probably a hell of a lot easier to manage potholes when you're not dealing with a freeze-thaw cycle. AFAIK we have one of the most extreme freeze-thaw cycles in the nation because of the daily variability. It can be 40F one day and 0F the next in winter, easily, if not in the same day.
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Winters around Chicago have been wayyyy more mild the last several years. We got that proper big blizzard in 2011 and it's been tapering off ever since.. get maybe one weekend a year with enough cold to go ice skating outdoors. And maybe a polar vortex in January. Persistent snow simply doesn't happen anymore. We get an inch or two and it's gone in two days.
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xzzy posted:Persistent snow simply doesn't happen anymore.  Correct thread and all
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xzzy posted:Winters around Chicago have been wayyyy more mild the last several years. We got that proper big blizzard in 2011 and it's been tapering off ever since.. get maybe one weekend a year with enough cold to go ice skating outdoors. And maybe a polar vortex in January. This is true. My parents got a snowblower at my insistence and we haven't had to use it once. A waste!
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AirRaid posted:Spotted this on Imgur earlier, haven't seen it posted here - This is in the wrong thread - The 'paint job' is plastidip, the horn and wings can be removed easily, the interior is just removable covers. Good on 'em.
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Here's the fun. I used to live just outside Chicago , in Aurora, but now i live in Plano, Texas. The roads out here suck in a different way. Any road out in the sticks, "Farm to Market" roads, sometimes still have a lot of heavy traffic (as in weight), and you get deep depressions in the road, think wagon wheel ruts, or the road drat near sloughs off on the shoulder side. It's still constant construction depending on which way you go, but once some of it is done, it's pretty drat smooth sailing. I traverse 75 north/south and i-635 east/west about every day and luckily I work an overnight shift. I'm on the road when most folks aren't. Though the suburbs are pretty well handled. Just look out for the construction and it idiots that drive over medians/grass/whatever at the last second because they realized they missed their exit.
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Skreemer posted:Here's the fun. I used to live just outside Chicago , in Aurora, but now i live in Plano, Texas. The roads out here suck in a different way. Any road out in the sticks, "Farm to Market" roads, sometimes still have a lot of heavy traffic (as in weight), and you get deep depressions in the road, think wagon wheel ruts, or the road drat near sloughs off on the shoulder side. It's still constant construction depending on which way you go, but once some of it is done, it's pretty drat smooth sailing. I traverse 75 north/south and i-635 east/west about every day and luckily I work an overnight shift. I'm on the road when most folks aren't. Agreed on 75 and 635, they're generally in good shape. 190 and 121 are too, but gently caress toll roads. I get to see 30 every single day (since, uh, I live on it). The highways I see every day vary, but 35E and 635 are pretty much always on my list. I've seen roads in Plano heave on a really hot day though. I remember Preston has done it a couple of times, think I remember Legacy doing that at some point too (been awhile.. like 10 years). Nothing like a surprise speed bump on 40 and 45 mph roads 
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https://twitter.com/WestVanPolice/status/885171452059824130 drat smart car drivers, always doing double the speed limit 
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 That's right, a cool million for a relatively low-mileage 3000GT! I love how they claim "0 owners, confirmed by CarFax", and then post the CarFax that shows registrations being issued several times. https://detroit.craigslist.org/mcb/ctd/6195892737.html MikeyTsi fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Jul 13, 2017 |
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I have so many questions about this fever dream
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Powershift posted:https://twitter.com/WestVanPolice/status/885171452059824130 Wrong thread perhaps? Not the speeding but survivng it
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Breakfast Feud posted:I have so many questions about this fever dream It's on Ebay.uk.
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It's like he wanted a hot rod mercedes but instead of making everything fit into a tight dropped chassis he just sort of fit a hot rod shape over top of a sedan.
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lordofthefishes posted:Wrong thread perhaps? How dare that guy survive going 83 mph.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:How dare that guy survive going 83 mph. In a Smart.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:How dare that guy survive going 83 mph. Because if he went 5 mph faster he would have gone back in time.
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