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ooh, is this where we can complain about poorly-designed intersections? Here's a couple five-way stops (  ) from my neighborhood. This one is fairly quiet, but it's a pain in the rear end just because it's so sprawling. On the odd occasion there's more than one car at the intersection, it turns into either "is he turning? I can't see ... well, I'll wait for him ... still not moving, I'll flash my lights ... now we're both going, now we're both stopping, gently caress." or someone blowing through the stop sign.  This one is pretty busy and is also right near two schools ( in addition to the driveways in the intersection and the two parallel roads ), so it gets to be a clusterfuck at times. I can only assume the traffic counts are low enough during non-peak times to keep it from getting a traffic light.
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kastein posted:i90 (the pike) eastbound from i84 to i95 in Mass also usually averages 80. It's only a 65 zone, though. At 45mph.
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Nov 12, 2013 00:38
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kastein posted:Pike westbound is always an absolute shitshow on the last day of any given weekend, or was it just that she drives like a 90 year old blind alzheimers sufferer?
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xzzy posted:Clean cars are a little more significant in areas that get a lot of rain or snow. Random pieces of paper, handful of napkins from a restaurant, various food wrappers.. pretty much anything that qualifies as "garbage" tends to turn into gooey pulp really fast once you start tracking water in, and it's disgusting to have to clean it up. It's twice as bad if there's any food mixed in with it. I can understand things getting messy inside if you do a lot of driving or have kids or whatever, but taking ten minutes every week or so to shovel out the back seat so it doesn't *stay* messy doesn't seem like that much of a burden.
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Nov 14, 2013 00:36
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ah, first major snowfall in upstate NY. On the way to work, someone in a Honda CR-V alternating between going 15mph and slamming on the brakes while straddling two lanes of a four-lane road, only moving toward a lane when it came time to block somebody from trying to go around them. On the way home, I get a lovetap while at a stoplight ( no damage, thank god ). And yesterday I almost got nailed from behind, but at the last minute got to watch a swerving panic stop almost send them into oncoming traffic, as well the ensuing fifteen-point turn to get back into their lane. Most people around here are surprisingly reasonable on lovely snowy days, but for gently caress's sake ... I don't want a new car *that* badly.
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Dec 18, 2013 00:37
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Geoj posted:RE: bad parking chat - saw this at a Home Depot I've never been to a Home Depot where at least a quarter of the lot wasn't parked questionably. There's always the hard parkin' employees at the end of the lot showing off their sweet-bro-trucks or their chrome-addled Pontiac, the guys who don't know how long their long bed-crew cab truck is and have four feet of vehicle sticking out into the aisle, and someone with a trailer who couldn't straighten it out so they just parked across twelve spaces.
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I think anyone who lives in a reasonably built-up area that gets a lot of winter has at least a few "gently caress this, I'm going here anyway" moments every year. When it's lovely and freezing and my options for work parking are either at the faaar back of the lot or parallel parking on the street out front in a snow drift, I know which one I'm picking.
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GramCracker posted:Driving to work this morning on 95 north bound in CT. Crest a .5% grade hill to find traffic has slowed to a 40 mph crawl...why? Oh, because there is a State cop half way down the "hill." Does it boggle anyone else's mind that people drive that slow past a cop when the limit is 65?
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