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kurtster

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Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 6:31am

oldslabsides wrote:

no. continuous movement is the point - traffic lights require everyone to stop.

Around here, they all have stop signs requiring a complete stop before entering.

Hell, no one here knows how to make a boulevard turn. Everyone goes past the turning vehicle and turns behind each other, not in front of each other.

Talk about things that piss me off, not that anyone asked.

Traffic circles without stop signs in areas where the average age is 70 something and barely able to see ?

I sell glasses to these people. {#Stop}

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Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 6:31am
RASPUTIN wrote: We're getting a new one every 6 or 8 months it seems. After the initial demolition derbies they seem to work out pretty well. Here we started building new ones long time ago.Now we are taking down traffic lights and replace them with roundabouts. All the new roundabouts started out a new past time hobby for some,,, Making "roundabouts dogs" a placing them in the roundabouts.

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Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 6:26am
oldslabsides wrote: no. continuous movement is the point - traffic lights require everyone to stop. What's that got to do with the Floyd?

Red_Dragon

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Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 6:24am
kurtster wrote: Everyone must stop, regardless of traffic wasting fuel. no. continuous movement is the point - traffic lights require everyone to stop.

kurtster

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Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 6:19am
RASPUTIN wrote: Because if they were smaller people would steal them to have light shows in their basements for their Pink Floyd records.

kurtster

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Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 6:18am

miamizsun wrote:

oldslabsides wrote:

In a world where miniaturized, powerful electronics are everywhere, why does it still take two enormous metal boxes full of stuff to control the traffic lights at an intersection?

very interesting article...

A roundabout solution to traffic woes

(look at the roundabout design on that page)

regards

We have many of these circles as we call then here in the Akron / Cleveland metro area.

They have too many drawbacks.

They require cooperation amongst drivers, like using turn signals and staying in lanes.

Slowly accerlerating vehicles such as large trucks clog them up when dodging more nimble cars.

Everyone must stop, regardless of traffic wasting fuel.

They take up an inordinate amount of space and if landscaped in the center, require expensive maintenence.

Lastly, they require people to actually be able to read signs to know exactly where they are going.

FWIW : The traffic light was invented and first used here in Cleveland.

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Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 6:16am
oldslabsides wrote: Yeah, circles are great - unless you're a redneck too dense to figure them out - but that doesn't answer my dumbass question. Because if they were smaller people would steal them to have light shows in their basements for their Pink Floyd records.

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Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 6:13am
Yeah, circles are great - unless you're a redneck too dense to figure them out - but that doesn't answer my dumbass question.

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Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 6:11am

miamizsun wrote:

oldslabsides wrote:

In a world where miniaturized, powerful electronics are everywhere, why does it still take two enormous metal boxes full of stuff to control the traffic lights at an intersection?

very interesting article...

A roundabout solution to traffic woes

Sep. 26, 2011

FRANKLIN - When traffic roundabouts first came to the McKay's Mill neighborhood, so did confusion for many drivers.

Homeowner newsletters, over and over again, explained how to navigate the unfamiliar intersections where you ease your car into a circular drive and exit on another side.

But puzzled or not, drivers are having far fewer accidents at roundabouts scattered throughout the region than at traditional intersections. And many more roundabouts are in the works in both residential and commercial districts.

(look at the roundabout design on that page)

regards

I learned how to navigate roundabouts 30+ years ago when working in Saudi Arabia. And they had big ones 4-5 lanes wide, like being in a dodgem ride.

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Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 6:10am

miamizsun wrote:

oldslabsides wrote:

In a world where miniaturized, powerful electronics are everywhere, why does it still take two enormous metal boxes full of stuff to control the traffic lights at an intersection?

very interesting article...

A roundabout solution to traffic woes

Sep. 26, 2011

FRANKLIN - When traffic roundabouts first came to the McKay's Mill neighborhood, so did confusion for many drivers.

Homeowner newsletters, over and over again, explained how to navigate the unfamiliar intersections where you ease your car into a circular drive and exit on another side.

(look at the roundabout design on that page)

regards

They do work if people have the rules explained to them over and over. There are a few roundabouts that I go through where many other drivers often have no clue - they cut-off other drivers in the circle or stop within the circle to allow waiting drivers in, etc... It seems like it depends on the time of day or location - as well as the education - for those to be effective.

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Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 6:08am

miamizsun wrote:

oldslabsides wrote:

In a world where miniaturized, powerful electronics are everywhere, why does it still take two enormous metal boxes full of stuff to control the traffic lights at an intersection?

very interesting article...

A roundabout solution to traffic woes

Sep. 26, 2011

FRANKLIN - When traffic roundabouts first came to the McKay's Mill neighborhood, so did confusion for many drivers.

Homeowner newsletters, over and over again, explained how to navigate the unfamiliar intersections where you ease your car into a circular drive and exit on another side.

(look at the roundabout design on that page)

regards

We're getting a new one every 6 or 8 months it seems. After the initial demolition derbies they seem to work out pretty well.

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Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 6:02am

oldslabsides wrote:

In a world where miniaturized, powerful electronics are everywhere, why does it still take two enormous metal boxes full of stuff to control the traffic lights at an intersection?

very interesting article...

A roundabout solution to traffic woes

Sep. 26, 2011

FRANKLIN - When traffic roundabouts first came to the McKay's Mill neighborhood, so did confusion for many drivers.

Homeowner newsletters, over and over again, explained how to navigate the unfamiliar intersections where you ease your car into a circular drive and exit on another side.

(look at the roundabout design on that page)

regards

Red_Dragon

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Location: Dumbf*ckistan

Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 5:48am
In a world where miniaturized, powerful electronics are everywhere, why does it still take two enormous metal boxes full of stuff to control the traffic lights at an intersection?

justlistening

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Posted: Sep 16, 2011 - 10:34am
Proclivities wrote: Man I can see the fanny pack crowd lining up for this one

Proclivities

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Posted: Sep 16, 2011 - 10:32am
justlistening wrote: I have to admit I've used the odor eaters on tennis shoes - never tried the other product - but I can't see why that wouldn't work!

kopak

Posted: Sep 16, 2011 - 10:28am
justlistening wrote: I have to admit I've used the odor eaters on tennis shoes - never tried the other product - but I can't see why that wouldn't work! Our friend RT obviously doesn't need it.

justlistening

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Posted: Sep 16, 2011 - 10:26am
romeotuma wrote: Both those products look very good... I have to admit I've used the odor eaters on tennis shoes - never tried the other product - but I can't see why that wouldn't work!

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Posted: Sep 16, 2011 - 10:22am
kopak wrote: Hmm... Not as much as feet, I presume. That's a different product:

kopak

Posted: Sep 16, 2011 - 10:21am
romeotuma wrote: It wasn't me! But it does smell good... Hmm... Not as much as feet, I presume.

justlistening

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Posted: Sep 16, 2011 - 10:20am
romeotuma wrote: Who farted? (Smells soooo good..:)

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