You're making me glad I went through there at 2AM -- and extremely confusing it was, even without other drivers to make things more difficult. For the record, I was coming from Albuquerque and trying to go to Huntsville, and I have no idea what road I was on... all of them had names like 30N/165W/35E/166S... or something,,,,
Dana On 5/13/05, S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/13/05, Duane Boudreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 2. Assholes who mistake the yield signs on on-ramps for > >> speed up and cut as > >> many cars off as possible signs. > > > So true... but also true: > > > 3. Overly timid scaredy-cat drivers who mistake merge > > signs for "slow > > down till someone let you in" rather than "match the > > merging traffic's > > speed and freaking merge!". Merge doesn't always mean > > slow down, > > sometimes it means speed the hell up! > > There's an area in downtown Dallas known as "the mix master" -- their > not-so-cute name for a place where several interstates cross with a > maze of interchanges between them so that, in theory, you can get > anywhere in the city by taking the freeway through downtown. One > entrance ramp in particular from central-expressway (I-75) going north > and getting onto I-30 (R. L. Thornton I think) going east has a big > problem with this. People are already travelling at freeway speeds, 60 > is by the time they slow down a bit from I-75 (rather than launch > themselves 50 ft into the air over I-30 because they couldn't control > the turn), but invariably everyone insists that this place between two > freeways where the speed limit is 55mph and traffic is invariably > 70mph on _both_ freeways is either the perfect place for sight-seeing > or a mandatory full-stop. Why? Because there's a relatively short > distance (I think it's about 80-100ft) between where you can see the > traffic you're merging with and where the entry lane ends. So > apparently, the best solution to having a short distance in which got > get up to speed and merge with this torrent of traffic barrelling down > your left side is to come to a complete stop so that you can increase > the amount of time needed to get up to speed. And you can't even slow > down _behind_ the idiot/asshole stopped in front of you so that when > they finally do get their head out of their ass and move you've got > more stretch to speed up, because the instant you do that, the person > behind you jumps the shoulder so they can mash the gas and then mash > the breaks to come to a SCREETCHING halt behind the car you're waiting > for. The end result is that the only way to handle the interchange in > that direction is to maintain your speed until you can see the car > that's stopped, SLAM the breaks, grind to a complete halt, wait for > the asshole to remove his head from his sphincter and then do exactly > as they did, wait for an opening, floor the gas and pray to god(s). > There is a rare occasion on which you can actually pass sanely between > them when nobody's stopped there, but not often -- less than 50% of > the times I drove it. > > > s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 > new epoch : isn't it time for a change? > > add features without fixtures with > the onTap open source framework > > http://www.fusiontap.com > http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:157666 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
