Or how about Memphis, TN. I-40 around town used to have entrances feeding traffic into the left lanes and exits on the right lanes. You couldn't pass more than two exits without changing lanes.
Jack
Hrm... So why not 40mph then? That saves MORE gas and saves MORE lives?
I agree with the 85th percentile rule. Set safe, realistic speed limits. Nail those who go over the limit AND those who are unsafe (20 under the limit, lane switchers, tailgaters, etc.)
That's why they massaged all the numbers. Eventually the only thing possible was to outright lie to the feds to keep the highway funds coming.
I've seen it where 90mph or slower meant being tailgated.
they used ethinic and racial fears to get a segment of the population behind banning pot, that's true. However I think the real reasons were economic. That is to keep the plant out because it was competition for for various business interests. As I learn more and more I find that most of the laws and regulation beyond the simple things like 'don't kill your neighbor' and ones that increase government's power and bottom line in the USA are for the benefit of one business over another, to prevent entry into markets, to use the government to put competition out of business, etc and so on.
Half of them have been rendered unusable. They aren't quite removed. There are just huge hunks missing of them. It's made it a lot better with them gone.
Yes, very stupid, especially with the merge impaired.
This is Massachusetts. Most people here coming down the ramp full bore don't know shit.
You own the wrong cars...
Again, we're talking Massachusetts here.
Our insurance rates weren't out of sight for no good reason...
I just stay in the right lane and go between 55-60 and save a lot of gas and generate less pollution.
When others pass you up, just remember that their wind gusts are slightly improving your mileage. :-)
What's scary is those using cell phones that you have to watch out for. They are worse than DUI drivers. :-)
Take care, Andy
My cars get their best fuel efficiency ~68 MPH, so I would assume that's also less pollution.
Oh, Boy...My car is my 'office' and my phone rings constantly. Two things: I repidly learned how to PAY ATTENTION TO THE ROAD while talking, and if anything happens, the phone hits the deck or goes out the window. I recently bought a Bluetooth headset (one of those geeky looking things that goes on your ear) and it has made my life immensely easier!
What I really liked was the time I saw a girl coming up to a traffic jam, no hands on the wheel, and dancing in the driver's seat...
If you move over to let faster traffic pass they don't seem to care.
I'll confess to driving on the left to avoid a crumby/truck destroyed right hand lane. Some of those will really rattle your ride (especially driving through New Mexico, IIRC).
dennis in nca
Only place where i've found I had to do that was the previously quite nice section of the PA turnpike between the OH line and Cranberry, where those idiots at PennDOT cut out large sections of concrete and then patched them (very badly) with strips of asphalt across the entire lane. My friend was in the passenger seat trying to use a laptop the first time I hit that stretch after it was butchered; didn't work out too well. This was a few years ago; I hope that PennDot has fixed it correctly since.
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Thanks.
Following your lead I turned on Google Earth and the entrances I used to hate the most are still there.
I'm talking about the entrances to the Kennedy (still called that, I wonder?) north bound lanes off east/west streets like Washington and Madison.
Sorry to see them still there.
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Forget about driving in Chicago! Chicago is a mess, and i'm from NYC, so i know a mess, when i see one. The question about 55 or 65 i would leave for academics. Answer me, how can one get the 80 000 lb. truck from NY to Chicago driving 10 hwrs a day ( legal limit ) at legal speed? It's 850 mi. apart with 400 miles thru PA mountains. It's impossible, unless you go AT LEAST 70-75 mph. And you cannot sleep. You have to go nonstop ( except for food ) to get to your client at night, because Chicago is a mess most other times of the day to drive a truck thru.
They only killed half of them. Every other one is gone. Half are still bad, but half of them is better than all of them.
The word 'masshole' exists for a reason.
No, you must own cars with bad brakes.
If you want to drive 850 miles in 10 hours you have to _average_ at least
85mph. Time spent at 75mph is putting you behind. Of course there's the overall lack of wisdom in long distance trucking. But that's what the political system has given us. With the depression, the debt, the wars, it may be too late for a proper long distance cargo system.Don't worry, NAFTA and/or other managed trade agreements will probably (in the future if they don't already) allow mexican truckers to go by mexico's rules while they are in the US ;)
Damn right!! And I get to share the friggin' road with every one of them!
Gee, *I* took driver's ed, and I had a damn good instructor! I learned how to drive correctly, and it's not that tough!
No, not at all. Quick cars with very good brakes.
I guess it's just a choice, and I usually choose the accelerator...because I *CAN*!
That's the best method there is!
If the engine out powers the brakes, your brakes are crap or at the very least not good enough for the car.
What does that have to do with entering the freeway faster than the traffic then slowing to match speed, than getting to the freeway at a speed below the existing traffic, and forcing those cars to slow so you can get into line?
Having jumped into the pile and started kicking though, I agree with the premise that the brakes can stop the engine from dragging the car around. But, I don't see the parallel here.
Follow the thread back up.
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