Wanted to make sure Rudy saw this one
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Im sure these drivers would be perfectly fine with someone parking a car on their lawn.
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Oh, I’m sure.
A guy got annoyed with me yesterday for leaving my bike in a parallel street parking space while I sat at a nearby picnic table to drink coffee before picking Roli up.
If I’d been in an idling car in the same parking space, he’d have thought nothing of it because that’s what he was going to do.
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Making me think about some of my neighbors. There must be 4-5 adults living in this house and they all drive big trucks/SUVs and work vans. The work vans are presumably full of tools and parked on what used to be their front lawn. One pickup is in the 1-lane driveway, and then another pickup and a Suburban are parked in front of the house (the combined length of these 2 exceeds that of the house I’m pretty sure). Anyway, they have had an afternoon guest showing up that parks their car about 3/4 in the remaining bit of driveway, across the sidewalk and partly into the street.
The punchline to all of this is that they have built a literal wall of cars from their house to the middle of the street and when I’m walking by with a stroller I have to cross basically to the other side of the street. Which naturally also has cars parked on it, so actually I’m wedged in the middle zone that the other neighbors enjoy racing their non-parked cars through. Love it!
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In other news, I have started seeing local internet commenters starting to become aware of what I-35 construction is going to be like for the legions of north-south commuters here. Once it gets started in earnest there won’t be any going back but I’m optimistic that it’s going to drive some people so batty that they’ll do anything to avoid driving (but there’s no reason to expect this in reality)
i attempted to drive on 35 in dallas last week. not sure i have ever had quite such an unusual driving experience. i have been in plenty of areas where people drive whatever speed they want in whatever lane they choose…but in all of those places, the slower drivers are going roughly the speed limit. in dallas, someone might very well be driving 50 in a 70 in the middle or left lane. why?
my austin-based colleague says that’s just how it is on 35.
Couldn’t tell you. I live close enough to the middle of Austin that I can’t imagine being able to drive 50mph on I-35 lol
business dickheads.
the sorta dickheads who wear golf shirts to work every day.
dickheads who love using initialisms that they just learned from the podcast they listened to on the way into the office, fully knowing no one else knows what they stand for.
dickheads who go for powerwalks with other dickheads while they talk about their dickhead quarterly numbers.
are you a business dickhead? fuck you then. this is a safe space.
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I’m a dickhead but not a business dickhead.
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Oh man. New gripe.
There was a traffic-calming pilot project on my street. Okay, my street, but on the other side of a through street so I didn’t go up that way much. They put up some signs and flex posts to make some pinch points to slow people down. And it fucking worked! Speeds were down 20-29% on that stretch and it basically eliminated speeding, by their own numbers! The 85% percentile of drivers went from being above the speed limit to 4-6mph below it! The max recorded speed in one direction went from 34mph to 23mph!
But they are going to remove those improvements because you guessed it, the neighbors hated driving around them and thought they were ugly.
I don’t think it was a perfect project but still a bummer to see something actually work and then get torn out.
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Someone at my work proposed after hours walking meetings with leadership as a development opportunity. What the actual fuck.
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Now, imagine the govt changes, and the new govt does exactly that. (In New Zealand) Putting all the speed limits back UP ! Despite an outcry from health and traffic professionals. These guys are fucking morons. They are also in the pocket of big tobacco, slashing taxes and changing legislation. Its actually very obviously corrupt.
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there’s talk of building bus rapid transit on one of denver’s busiest roads
this has, of course, caused a meltdown by certain car brains
One of those opponents is Steve Yobst of Cory-Merrill.
Yobst drove his 2011 Honda Pilot to the open house, he proudly said, adding that any move to narrow Colorado Boulevard would be disastrous.
“If you’re going to take two lanes and make it bus rapid transit, that’s one-third of Colorado Boulevard that’s going to be removed from commerce,” he said. “I don’t like that idea. Traffic is bad enough as it is, and the existing RTD buses just get in the way and pollute the environment.”
He was skeptical that enough drivers would ever switch to riding the bus to prevent a traffic meltdown if Colorado lost vehicle lanes.
He also took issue with the fare payment system the BRT line would likely use. Instead of paying on the bus, riders would buy a ticket before boarding to speed up that process.
He alleged that the system would be abused by “homeless vagrants and criminally insane people” who would ride for free.
I googled his name, and…
Beginning in 2005 and continuing through approximately May 14, 2015, Yobst and Brittain worked together to divert, use and convert funds for their own personal benefit without Xcel’s authorization. The diversion of funds included withdrawals from the PEG account to a Scottrade Account for $400,000, which were used by Yobst and Brittain to conduct stock transactions and other investment activities; $363,966 in payments to American Express for Yobst’s personal expenditures; and Yobst wiring $42,250 to an automotive dealer to purchase a 2011 Honda Pilot.
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colorado blvd is such a nightmare
i have no idea where all these people are driving to/from but it’s literally a 24 hour traffic jam
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It’s very easy to prove the cartoonist is a driver from nyc. They are so convinced that that left turn involves driving across the crosswalk where the baby is that they think we would program the robot to do it that way.
It appears to be a right turn up a one way street? Exaggeration for comedic effect or something.
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York the roads don’t work. For some reason here most drivers think the proper angle for a turn involves driving over every stripe on the zebra
I’m more interested in where this cartoonist got the idea that a red light was going to force a Hummer driver to stop
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