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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:the guy who murdered the cyclist near me got four years and he fled the scene and tried to figure out how to not get caught via google idiot, he should have read this thread, he'd have known to just stop and wait for the police
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wolfs posted:https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/union-pacific-hit-with-557-million-verdict-over-train-collision that poor corporation with a private railway having to pay out for not having lights or standardized stopping abilities
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Cup Runneth Over posted:idiot, he should have read this thread, he'd have known to just stop and wait for the police it's just wild how you can do everything to make it absolutely clear that you have no intention of taking responsibility for murdering someone and, in fact, take steps to explicitly not be caught and when they catch you, you still serve less time than if you'd murdered someone literally any other way.
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NoU posted:two people hit and killed in seattle today My new place is pretty close to here and off MLK, i was just telling my housemates yesterday that I think I want to get some high vis for walking home after it's dark... No sidewalks once you get off MLK, and there's a hill you can't see over the crest of. I'm probably gonna die.
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Was eating on the porch this evening and some dude just clipped the low stone accent wall across the street doing I dunno 30 and kept on truckin Flattened at least the front left tire, his right front fender was already all crumpled up Wonder how many other things he careened into on his way through town
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quote:PITTSBURGH — A local mother is moving forward after her son died on the day of his graduation from the University of Dayton. the cars are out of control
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“It crushed him. We have the car, we aren’t angry at the car,” Jen Brunner said.
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Ensign Expendable posted:What gas station would even let you try and operate this shitshow? gas station cashier aint getting paid enough to intervene
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walking my dog this morning, i stopped at the crosswalk and the car in the far lane stopped. i started walking and then they floored it through the intersection. sorry, i like this thread to trauma dump about heavy metal monsters trying to kill me every time i step outside.
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Rauros posted:walking my dog this morning, i stopped at the crosswalk and the car in the far lane stopped. i started walking and then they floored it through the intersection. sorry, i like this thread to trauma dump about heavy metal monsters trying to kill me every time i step outside. Presumably they're thinking "I'm in a car so I shouldn't have to stop for pedestrians, but I guess if they do start walking I might need to stop so I'll start stopping... no I have time so I'll just floor it  "
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mystes posted:I hate when cars do this. If they're going to stop, they need to stay stopped until you cross. Looking like they're going to stop and then accelerating is probably more dangerous than not slowing down at all. They're not stopping for you, they're stopping to avoid the imperceptibly small chance of punishment in case a cop sees them.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:the cars are out of control nasty way to go. unless you're a catalytic converter thief in which case it is karma
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WaryWarren posted:lol Tim has a good idea Normally, I loving hate loud motorcycles, but in this case, punishing all of the people with car alarms is praxis.
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Rauros posted:walking my dog this morning, i stopped at the crosswalk and the car in the far lane stopped. i started walking and then they floored it through the intersection. sorry, i like this thread to trauma dump about heavy metal monsters trying to kill me every time i step outside. i like to break into a run when cars do this. let’s see who can cross first!!
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I like to do a little pump fake to make the driver think I am going to step out in front of them when they do stupid stuff at crosswalks. Just a little jolt of adrenaline to liven up their day and hopefully make them think twice next time (they won’t think twice next time).
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China's fastest cross-sea high-speed railway, the 350 km/h Fuzhou-Xiamen high-speed railway, started operation on Thursday. The railway, featuring various intelligent technologies, connects major scenic spots along the coastal cities in the province. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEbhfRMz4Ac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ln3NElljYc quote:China's fastest sea Crossing High-Speed Rail started operation on Thursday in East China's Fujian Province featuring advanced technology and intelligence with a design speed of 350 km per hour. The Fuzhou-Xiamen-Zhangzhou highspeed Railway slashes travel time between Fuzhou and Xiamen, an economic Hub and tourist hotspot in the province to just under an hour. The fastest train trip used to take around 1 hour and 20 minutes.   Fuzhou-Xiamen High-speed Railway (Fuzhou-Xiamen High-speed Railway) is China's first cross-sea high-speed railway, which starts from Fuzhou City in the north, passes through Putian and Quanzhou City, and reaches Xiamen City and Zhangzhou City in the south, and connects with Hefo Railway and Wenfu Railway in the north, and connects with Xiamen-Shenzhen Railway and Longsha Railway in the south. It is the passenger transportation corridor of Beijing-Fuzhou-Xiamen high-speed railroad and an important part of the passenger transportation corridor of Southeast Coastal Railway in the "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railroad network of the Medium and Long-term Railway Network Planning (2016). Fuzhou-Xiamen high-speed railroad is the first pilot project of China's railroad to promote the TOD (Transit Oriented Development) mode, the first high-speed railroad in Fujian Province with a speed of 350 kilometers per hour, and is also a key project of the national "One Belt, One Road" construction project, provincial and municipal key projects, with a total length of 277.42 kilometers, and 8 passenger stations along the line. The project started construction on January 15, 2017, and was completed and opened for operation at the end of September 2023. On September 26, 2023, the tickets of Fuxia high-speed railway were officially put on sale, and Fuxia high-speed railway was officially operated on September 28 of the same year. Length of railroad: 277.42 kilometers / 172 miles Number of Stations: 8 Railroad Class: Passenger Dedicated Line Number of main lines: Double lines Speed target value: 350km/h Line spacing: 5.0 meters Minimum curve radius: General 7000m, individual 5500m Maximum gradient: 20‰ Effective length of arrival line: 650 meters Type of rolling stock: Electric locomotive Train operation control mode: Automatic control Command mode: Centralized dispatching Minimum train interval: 3 minutes Investment Cost: Approximately 53.04 billion RMB Population (urban) Fuzhou: 4,094,491 Xiamen: 5,163,970 Zhangzhou: 939,943 Population (rural) Fuzhou: 4,196,777 Population (metro) Xiamen: 7,284,148 Zhangzhou: 7,284,148  Anhaiwan Cross-sea Bridge  Leigongshan Special Bridge  Magnolia Creek Special Bridge  Wulong River Bridge  Fuxia High Speed Railway  Fuxia High Speed Railway Project Challenges Fushe Tunnel  Fushe Tunnel is located in Tong'an District, Xiamen City, is a two-lane tunnel with a design speed of 350km/h. It is the necessary route for the FuXia High-speed Railway to enter and exit the Xiamen High-speed Railway Station, and passes through the core area near the Xiamen North Station, which is the key controlling project of FuXia High-speed Railway in the 8-bid. The total length of the tunnel is 1450m, the maximum depth of the tunnel is about 76m, the tunnel is 150~350m to the right of the existing passenger dedicated line of Fuxia Railway and Shenhai Highway, only 17m away from the crossing of the adjusted moving line under construction and the moving line under construction, the construction is difficult. Xinlutang Tunnel Xinlutang Tunnel is located in Tong'an District, Xiamen City, with a total length of 1970 meters, of which the two-lane tunnel is 412 meters long, with a maximum depth of about 61 meters. Xinlutang Tunnel No. 3 has a total length of 1,135 meters, which is a "swallow-tail tunnel" connecting Xiamen High-speed Railway Station and Xiamen North No. 2 Railway Station, with an inlet of double-hole single-lane structure, and an outlet of single-hole double-lane structure, which is a key controlling project of the entire line of the Fuxia-Huaxia High-speed Railway. Yangmeishan Tunnel  Located at the junction of Minhou County and Fuqing City, Yangmeishan Tunnel is a two-lane, single-cavity, Class Ⅱ high-risk tunnel project, the longest tunnel in the entire line of the Fuxia High-speed Railway, and also the controlling project of the entire line of the Fuxia High-speed Railway. The tunnel has a total length of 10,699 meters, with a maximum depth of 398 meters, a rock burst section of 2,290 meters, extensive distribution of water surges and mud surges in the tunnel, and the tunnel is located in an area with high geological pressure, high geothermal heat, and susceptible to subsidence. Bifeng Temple Tunnel Bifeng Temple Tunnel is located in Fuqing City and Putian City, a total length of 8.4 kilometers, is listed as the construction unit of the entire line level of high-risk, the most difficult key control project, the tunnel through 8 fault fracture zone, 8 joints dense zone and 480 meters of strong water-rich zone, the maximum daily water influx of 7800 cubic meters, construction difficulties, high risk. Quanzhou Bay Bridge  Quanzhou Bay Cross-sea Bridge Located in Quanzhou City, Quanzhou Bay Cross-sea Bridge is the key controlling project of the entire route of Fuxia High-speed Railway and the first cross-sea high-speed railroad bridge in China. The total length of the bridge is 20.287 kilometers, and the length of the sea bridge is 8.96 kilometers, the main bridge is 800 meters long, the main span is 400 meters, it is a double-tower and double cable-stayed steel-hybrid combined beam and semi-floating system cable-stayed bridge. Quanzhou Bay Bridge has two main towers in the north and south, designed as a curve "H" shape, 160.254 meters high, a single main tower poured concrete volume of 11,230.65 cubic meters. The bridge has many structural types, complex construction techniques, long battle lines during the construction process, difficult organization and coordination, and high risk of high-altitude work at sea. The area where Quanzhou Bay Bridge is located is characterized by strong winds, deep water, high waves, high salinity and high humidity, which are typical conditions of the marine environment, and it also faces the engineering challenges of the high-intensity seismic zone on the west coast of the Taiwan Strait. The approach bridge adopts double-block ballastless track, which can effectively avoid the ballast track debris ballast splashing and jeopardizing the safety of the train when the high-speed train passes through the bridge at high speed under the environment of strong wind in the bay. Anhai Bay Bridge Anhaiwan Special Bridge is located in Quanzhou City, connecting Jinjiang City and Nan'an City, and is the controlling project of the whole line of Fuxia High-speed Railway. The total length of the bridge is 9.46 kilometers, of which the sea-crossing section is 1.56 kilometers long, and the main bridge is a 650-meter double-tower, double-surface, semi-floating steel-mixed girder cable-stayed bridge, with a main span of 300 meters and a main tower height of 126.9 meters, which spans the 2,000-ton main navigation channel of Anhai Bay. Jiulongjiang Special Bridge  JiuLongJiangShi Bridge, with a total length of 10.28 kilometers, is the controlling project of the whole line of FuXia High-speed Railway. The bridge crosses Yingxia Railway once, Shenhai Highway twice, Jiujiang River three times and national and provincial highways many times. Zhangzhou Downstream Liaison Line Crossing Hangzhou-Shenzhen Railway Transition Bridge Zhangzhou Downstream Contact Line Transition Bridge over Hangzhou-Shenzhen Railway is the controlling project of the whole line of Fuxia High-speed Railway, with the weight of the bridge reaching 5,500 tons, and the girder of the transition bridge is less than 10 meters away from the contact network of Hangzhou-Shenzhen Railway business line with the minimum vertical distance, which puts forward a demanding requirement to ensure the safe operation of the railroad. Meizhou Bay Cross-sea Bridge  Meizhouwan cross-sea bridge   Located in Putian City and Quanzhou City, Meizhou Bay Bridge is 14.7 kilometers long, with a main span of 180 meters, of which the construction length in sea area is 10.8 kilometers, with a design speed of 350 km/h. It is the first cross-sea high speed railroad bridge with short towers in China, and is also the controlling project of the whole line of Fuxia-Huaxia High Speed Railway. The bridge adopts 40.6 meters box girder design except continuous girder, which is the only bridge adopting 40.6 meters box girder for Fuxia High-speed Railway, and the world's first cross-sea high-speed railway bridge adopting 40 meters box girder. The sea area of Meizhou Bay is characterized by strong winds and waves, obvious tides, and complicated hydrological and geological environments, so the construction party actively promotes the use of new work equipment and new technology, and has successively overcome such construction problems as extra-long trestle bridge at sea, cofferdams in tidal areas, large-diameter deep-water pile foundations, and positioning of cable saddles for the main towers. Shizhushan Tunnel Shizhushan Tunnel, with a total length of 2,054 meters, has a shallow buried section of more than 470 meters, with an average depth of 10 meters, and the shallowest section is only 6.8 meters, in which 80% of the perimeter rock of V grade is classified as Class I high-risk tunnel. The tunnel has a complex geological environment, shallow burial depth, close to the Shizhushan Scenic Reserve, crossing two extruding fault zones at the same time, with serious bias pressure at the entrance and exit, and crossing the natural gas pipeline parallel to the tunnel body five times, which makes it difficult to construct the tunnel and poses high risk to the safety of the tunnel. Xixi Bridge   Xixi Bridge Xixi Special Bridge is located in Xiamen City, Fujian Province, with a total length of 24.68 kilometers, which is the longest bridge along the Fuxia High-speed Railway, and the main line consists of 663 holes of box girders, with a total of 732 piers and 17 continuous girders. Xixi Bridge is the controlling project along the whole line of FuXia High-speed Railway, the bridge pier 68, 69 crosses one of the busiest trunk lines of China's railroad transportation--Hangzhou-Shenzhen Railway, it is difficult and risky to carry out the construction directly above the railroad, in order not to affect the normal operation of the existing railroad, it adopts the advanced cross-railway construction technology of transporter bridge process. Taichengxi Bridge  Taichengxi Special Bridge is located in Jingyang Town, Fuqing City, with a total length of 728.13 meters, which is the key controlling project of the whole line of Fuxia Xiamen High-speed Railway, and China's first large-tonnage unbalanced transverse cable-stayed bridge for high-speed railway. The bridge crosses the Shenhai Highway, and is designed as unbalanced transverse cable-stayed bridge to ensure the normal passage of Shenhai Highway. Among them, the total length of the transverse part is 221.3 meters, with a total weight of 38,000 tons, which was the largest unbalanced transverse cable-stayed bridge of high speed rail in China in terms of tonnage up to the time of construction. Meanwhile, the girders on both sides of the bridge's cable-stayed towers are designed with different lengths, with one side being 95.5 meters long and the other being 125.7 meters long, and the weight of the bridge cantilevers on both sides differing by nearly 600 tons. Jimei Special Bridge  Jimei Bridge Jimei Special Bridge has a total length of 11.18 kilometers, with 283 holes of simply supported box girders. The bridge is located in an area with complex geological conditions, such as silt, isolated rocks, gravel pebbles, peat, etc., and isolated rocks are widely distributed, which makes the bridge piling project difficult. Jimei special bridge across the subway section designed for portal pier, the pier longitudinal span of 32.6 meters, the average horizontal span of 30 meters, including 7 piers, each pier upper beams are used steel cover beams, 7 pieces of steel cover beams an average length of 30 meters, 3 meters high, the heaviest 171.5 tons, is the Jimei special bridge is the most difficult to construct the most complex conditions, on the overall erection of the channel construction of the greatest impact on the construction period, the bridge! The steel cover girder of portal pier is the controlling project of Fuxia High-speed Railway. Mulanxi Special Bridge Mulanxi Special Bridge is located at the bank of Mulanxi River in Putian City, Fujian Province, with a total length of 18746.92 meters, which is the most difficult and controlling project of the whole line of Fuxia High-speed Railway. The height of the main tower of the bridge is 85.5 meters, and the bottom of the main tower is set with a ball hinge with a carrying capacity of 12,000 tons. New Yunju Mountain Tunnel Group New Yunju Mountain Tunnel Group consists of five tunnels with a total length of 4,510.29 meters, which is the most difficult key control project along the whole line of the Fuxia High-speed Railway. Tunnel rock changes are complicated, cave wall rock body stripping, falling blocks, is a hilly area, construction safety risk is high, and the new Yunju Mountain Tunnel No. 3 and the existing Fuxia Railway, Fuping Railway, the new Yunju Mountain Tunnel No. 1 parallel to the established Fuping Railway, from the established Fuping Railway is about 120 meters to 280 meters; Tunnel inlet in the southern end of the southern end of the Fuzhou South Railway Station, below the existing Fuzhou South Railway Station, the terrain is dangerous, and with the Fuxia Railway, the new Yunju Mountain Tunnel inlet, the new Yunju Mountain Tunnel inlet, the new Yunju Mountain Tunnel inlet, the new Yunju Mountain Tunnel inlet. Tunnel inlet, the new Yunju Mountain Tunnel No. 2 exit for the small spacing section; hole on the body across the Sanjiang Highway and the new Yunju Mountain Tunnel, the minimum height of the upper span is about 4.5 meters, with a "small spacing, adjacent to the business line, three-dimensional intersection," the characteristics of the construction of the operating conditions of the complexity of the construction is very difficult. Wulong River Special Bridge  Erection of the first steel box girder of Wulong River Special Bridge Wulong River Special Bridge is located in the waters of Wulong River in Cangshan District, which is China's first four-lane high and low tower double cable-stayed hybrid girder high-speed railroad cable-stayed bridge, with a total length of 739.9 meters, a main span of 432 meters, and a combination of 7 concrete box girders and 45 steel box girders, which is the key controlling project of the Fuxia High-speed Railway. Wulong River Special Bridge is located in the waters of fast-flowing water, complex underwater geological conditions, narrow space for construction work, and great difficulty in construction. Leigongshan Special Bridge Leigongshan Special Bridge is located in Fuqing City, Fujian Province, with a total length of 2,631.655 meters, which is the key controlling project for the whole line of Fuxia High-speed Railway, horizontally crossing the Shenhai Highway, with a span of 224 meters, the main pier drilled piles with a diameter of 3 meters, and the main pier bearing adopts the spherical bearing with a vertical bearing capacity of 180,000 KN, which is characterized by the large span of the continuous girder, the large diameter of the main pier drilled piles, and the large tonnage of the main pier spherical bearing, etc. The main bridge is located in the windy southeast coastal area, which is a very windy area. The main bridge is located in the southeast coastal windy area, heavy rain, typhoons prevail, the narrow tube effect is strong, the main bridge long tension cable in the wind and rain in the climate conditions will cause significant vibration, wind and rain vibration phenomenon, construction technical difficulties, high safety risk.  Tianzhushan Bridge Fuxing train  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuxing_(train) quote:Fuxing (train) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8QIDwHddCA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySxY4c78XqE Jon Pod Van Damm has issued a correction as of 19:16 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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I wish I could take a short train ride to see my parents that live 60 miles away from me instead of having to drive a car
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Still incredibly shook over a former coworker (Chinese expat) telling me that America was a better place to live as we dodged potholes in metro Detroit. Propaganda is real, and strong, and my friend
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It's cool to know that the dying empire I'm trapped in will never produce anything like that rail line.
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