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Pawnee and I-135 Why did they do this? If you look at the non-satelite view of the map, you can see that the land appears to be divided up into lots for housing or other construction. If you traveling east on Pawnee and want to get onto I-135 north you go right through a 20MPH loop with a steep incline, talk about fun merging into traffic. West bound traffic entering northbound I-135 takes it own seperate ramp on the other side of the road. Why couldn't they just use one ramp for northbound I-135?
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Just how overtaxed is the K-96 highway in Wichtia Kansas? Basically, K-96 from I-135 to the next two exits west (hillside, and oliver respectively) averages 58,300 cars per day on a four lane stretch of highway. I don't know the theoretical max capacity of a four lane urban highway, but some stretches of the 6 lane highway in the area are as low as 40K (some areas are as high as 100K). Numbers are here: http://www.ksdot.org/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burTransPlan/maps/CountMaps/Districts/inset13.PDF Pretty pictures of the problem are here:  Detail of K-96 to I-135 to K-96/I-235/K-254 intersection of doom: (the lower half of this pretty  but most of weird rear end ramps are low traffic) Street view of the lead up to the loop of doom:  It's also worthwhile to note that K-96 just a few miles east of hell goes to minimal traffic, primarily because there are four loving stop lights, two of which last a minute, on the 54/5400 highway between K-96 and civilization. I-35 is a toll road so it's pretty bad rear end to drive on, fells like a ghost town when you're up there with less than 15K cars per day. The last fuckup in my city is the intersection at 54/400 and I-235, a cloverleaf from the '50s with loops rated at a blistering fast 15MPH. gently caress that poo poo, I will drive several miles out of my way to avoid that crap. . . But the intersection is scheduled to be rebuilt soon, construction will take a million years and $  .
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Coo, I still think the area sucks balls primarily because of the Y in K-96 at I-135 (and the 25mph loop to get back to K-96 is a bitch). How would those features effect your judgement of the intersections ability to handle traffic?
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Nov 28, 2014 02:52
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My city tore out an old railroad line and converted it into a bike path. It's wide enough for bidirectional bike travel, but it sucks because without fail, everytime I go there will be idiots walking in the center of the path with airpods in, making them completely oblivious to me and other bikers shouting "On your left!" Similarly, my city upgraded a busy two lane road on the school district boundary line. One side of the street has the poors in the urban public school district, the other side has multi million dollar McMansions in the good, rural public school district. I drive this road to work, most mornings I go no more than 10mph over the limit and just ignore the luxury cars tailgating me. I do this because one day I thought I could appease the BMW gods by speeding up a little more. . . I ended up going 25mph over the limit when I got passed by some douchebag using the bicycle lane as their personal passing lane. There is not a chance I hell I would ever ride a bicycle on this bike lane. Not only are the drivers on this road criminally insane, but the bike path they added is exactly 1 mile long, at both ends it goes back to the old narrow two lane road with steep drop offs.
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Devor posted:Ask them to paint a dashed centerline to help solve this issue Hippie Hedgehog posted:I hate in-ears. At least with big rear end headphones, you could have the satisfaction of smacking them off their head.
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According to Google, only New York, New Jersey, South Carolina and Georgia require bicycle bells. It's a cultural thing, American's enjoy plowing over pedestrians with their bicycles, it's why fat tire bikes are so popular. But seriously, I don't commute on my bike so I can adjust my schedule or route to avoid pedestrians, and all of the bells available in stores are junk. If I actually was commuting and had to dodge pedestrians for real, I would get a decent bell. Even though I can yell loud a lot of pedestrians don't seem to have a firm grasp of concepts like "left" or "right" which makes sense in a way because if I shout "on your left" and they only hear/make out left they might jump left. smackfu posted:It’s a problem whenever you have two usages with very different speeds. Like there can be a decent amount of bike traffic and also very few bikes from the perspective of the walker. Ironically one of my favorite paths kinda sucks because it is right beside a highway. It's loud as gently caress but there are almost no pedestrians, except mom's with strollers for some strange reason. 
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Fuschia tude posted:Aren't those mountain bikes? I believe thin tire bikes are mainly for road use though, yeah. But I've never commuted on a bike since I was in New Zealand, partly because since then I've mainly worked remote jobs, so probably half the time I've ridden a bike has been on trails and in parks. Fat tire bikes have tires that are 5" inches wide. Fat tires are like riding on a marshmallow, they are low pressure, super soft tires with minimal road feel, and minimal speed. They are good for beaches, running over pedestrians, and people who really don't like biking. *Disclaimer: I'm an amateur low budget biker, my opinions might be inaccurate and/or jaded. Not Wolverine fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Dec 9, 2023 |
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I feel like this is the best place for me to ask this: why is this loop 2 roads instead of 1? Regarding that loop, my guess is there is probably a similarly named street to the east or west of the loop thus the north side of the loop got one name and the south side got the other. As for why, I think it would be pretty difficult to number a looped street in a way that is easy to understand. For example if you numbered the streets exactly like a clock face then houses 1 through 6 would increase as you go south, and 6 through 12 would decrease as you travel south. The only way I can think of to keep the numbers g consistent would be to take up the loop into 4 quadrants and that would require different street names.
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