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lol those poor people are gonna have to pay their parking tickets as well as the fee for removing and damaging the boot and possibly face charges for destruction of government property.
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xzzy posted:Yeah, it's another case of laws being stupid. Going to disagree with you here. Parking lots cost money, both to build and maintain, and a business should be able to somewhat reasonably predict how many spots they need for their business and not build in a location that won't support that. The Starbucks posted here is a perfect example. They knew for a fact that they were locating the business in a place without enough parking, and did it anyway, imposing the maintenance costs of their parking on the surrounding area, which is a poo poo thing to do.
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That's more on the city to approve the development with inadequate parking. We approve/deny poo poo like that all the time at work. Parking/impervious surface is like one of the first things they look at.
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It's true that the city shouldn't allow it, but at the same time, a Starbucks knows that they need more than a dozen parking spots, so some of it is on the business too. They shouldn't need the city to tell them they are being loving stupid about their parking requirements.
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Came across a real  this afternoon.Driving through a neighborhood, end up behind two school buses. One stops in front of a house and turns on the yellows. The other bus stops behind it and turns on its yellows. It sits like this for a good 30 seconds with everyone wondering if it's safe to pass when finally mommy escorts her kindergarden aged kid out of the home and up to the bus. So front bus turns on its reds and it apparently takes two minutes to load a kid onto a bus these days because we all sit there drumming our fingers on our wheel waiting for traffic to open up. At long last the front bus finishes this laborous task and putters off down the road. Second bus rolls forward ten feet to the exact same driveway and turns on its reds, depositing a grade school child right into mommy's arms. Bus #2 seriously couldn't have unloaded their child during the eternity it took to load up bus #2? 
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May 10, 2017 18:25
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Since when do school busses provide door to door service? When I was a kid we had to walk about 1/2 a mile to the bus stop. (Up hill both ways in the snow)
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financially racist posted:
There aren't other roundabouts in this area but I love that they're there. And I just like the name Scaggsville. 
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Since when do school busses provide door to door service? Don't know, don't have any kids. But I've been seeing it for quite a while now. My impression is it's not so much about coddling kids, just that in some neighborhoods there are only one or two kids to pick up anyways so they might as well stop right in front of their house.
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Nocheez posted:PYF roundabout. OK!!!!  Not the worst but they do get backed up all to hell in the evenings. But I did stumble upon a post made by a traffic engineer from 2002 claiming they totally plan to replace the whole overpass: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/misc.transport.road/Y_9UixE9WyE/Kxg0wMn0AMYJ
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carry on then posted:OK!!!! The only thing that is actually wrong with that interchange is that people in Phoenix see a roundabout and completely forget what little they might have known about how to drive a car. My father who is in his late 70's now flies into a rage if I say anything that might indicate a roundabout is good. He's lived here in Phoenix since before he was old enough to drive, and well... new tricks don't fly.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Since when do school busses provide door to door service? On my daily route to my ex-job, I would get stuck behind a bus and I knew it would always stop at a certain house. The driveway was probably 100 feet long but mom would be there in her minivan with her kid in it. After kid boarded the bus she would back up the 100 feet to the garage. 50% of the time she would get out and talk to the bus driver. Or play a loving game of Canasta because that seemed like how long it loving took.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Since when do school busses provide door to door service? This is the walk I had to the school bus in Mazomanie Wisconsin starting in 1st grade. Yes, that slope was loving evil, especially in the winter. 
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Since when do school busses provide door to door service? Poor thing is probably retarded. The kid is probably pretty dumb too.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Poor thing is probably retarded. I wonder what user name he posts with on this fine forum board.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:This is the walk I had to the school bus in Mazomanie Wisconsin starting in 1st grade. Yes, that slope was loving evil, especially in the winter. Oh man, driftless area is fun, isn't it.
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I think this might be my favorite. I watched a car pass up the right side of stopped traffic at a light, to make a right turn. They were behind another car at the light. Light goes green and the car behind blows his horn at the other car who wasn't moving. As I roll by, I see that the front car was parked and empty in a parallel parking spot.
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The Locator posted:Going to disagree with you here. Parking lots cost money, both to build and maintain, and a business should be able to somewhat reasonably predict how many spots they need for their business and not build in a location that won't support that. Most jurisdictions actually require a certain number of parking spots per people expected to be inside the building. They are really terrible laws, because they end up with what suburban America is: a bunch of underutilized parking lots.
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But those parking lots are fun when you don't have poo poo to do in middle school. Wait till dark and gently caress around on your bike to your heart's content. Saw a woman texting at a red, and when someone honked at a bike barreling through the same red she floored it without looking up and rear-ended a poor fucker.
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Deeters posted:I think this might be my favorite. I watched a car pass up the right side of stopped traffic at a light, to make a right turn. They were behind another car at the light. Light goes green and the car behind blows his horn at the other car who wasn't moving. As I roll by, I see that the front car was parked and empty in a parallel parking spot. Heh, I've been seeing this recently due to street 
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 This loving thing right here. See how each lane balloons out into two separate merge lanes? Good intentions but often frustrating results since it depends on Maryland drivers knowing how to A.) Read signs, and B.) Use lanes Runner up:  A circle with both yield signs and traffic lights in it? Sure, why not.
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Click the top link of that google group. misc.transport.road There is an active crazy man in there.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:lol those poor people are gonna have to pay their parking tickets as well as the fee for removing and damaging the boot and possibly face charges for destruction of government property. When wheel clamping is done by a private company, it's often either unenforceable, or actually illegal. So depending on where you live, you can do whatever you want with the clamps, and there's nothing the companies can do about it. They're basically just hoping people don't realise this and pay up. Obviously, probably want to check with local laws before you take an angle grinder to a clamp put on by the sheriff and get yourself a multi-thousand dollar fine.  Saw an article a while back where the cops were hanging out around parking lots, and actually arresting the parking company employees when they were clamping cars, because the local laws treated it as vandalism: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/denver-boot-legal-1.4061275
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I'm the engineer in the comments irritated that Chop-saw Man is calling himself Angle Grinder Man.
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:Heh, I've been seeing this recently due to street In Australia it's allowed under the law to travel in a bike lane for up to 50m if you're going to make a turn and 100m in a bus lane or across edge lines. Which is great because it gets the cars which are slowing down out of the way of traffic going straight ahead. But it can lead to instances of ending up stuck behind a parked car because you thought definitely for sure it was totally moving.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkUUowDdoEk&t=585s If you ever trust me on anything, it is that 9:46 is worth watching
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spog posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkUUowDdoEk&t=585s How can people be that bad at comprehending a very clear situation? JFC
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Gorilla Salad posted:In Australia it's allowed under the law to travel in a bike lane for up to 50m if you're going to make a turn and 100m in a bus lane or across edge lines. Which is great because it gets the cars which are slowing down out of the way of traffic going straight ahead. I've been that parked car (tour bus) a few times in rush-hour DC traffic. I'd be tooling along Constitution Ave in the curb lane, signed "NO PARKING 7-9:30AM 4-6:30 PM". Once the clock clicked 6:31, I'd hit the 4-ways, pop my parking brake, and shut the engine off. With a dozen pissed off commuters behind me who now had to fight their way into the next lane. I never wanted to be the bus blocking traffic, but terrible parking policies DC Park Police have aren't in line with the needs of the tour groups I'd bring through all day every day spring through fall. Buses aren't allowed to park at most monuments, active loading & unloading only. You'll get chased away or ticketed. Yet the groups expect you there 45 minutes after drop-off to head to the next thing. Legit bus parking at RFK Stadium is a 30-minute drive away, without in-out privileges, by the time you're there you're already late for pick-up. Drivers have no choice but to spin around in traffic all day, adding to pollution, noise, and making some of the worst traffic congestion in the nation even worse.
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Gorilla Salad posted:In Australia it's allowed under the law to travel in a bike lane for up to 50m if you're going to make a turn and 100m in a bus lane or across edge lines. Which is great because it gets the cars which are slowing down out of the way of traffic going straight ahead. It also keeps bikes from riding up the inside of you as you are about to turn right (or I guess in australia, left).
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TotalLossBrain posted:How can people be that bad at comprehending a very clear situation? JFC They're not, they just expect everyone to stop and obey THEIR whims and back off, instead of taking responsibility or admitting fault for being dipshits
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TotalLossBrain posted:How can people be that bad at comprehending a very clear situation? JFC They comprehend it. They just don't give a poo poo.
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Roundabouts are hard to understand. DASH CAM VIDEO HEAD ON COLLISION, KEENE NH ROUNDABOUT, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1YQupa9jmo&t=50
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:This is what we have in the East Bay... Looks like Martinez or Benicia? GnarlyCharlie4u posted:lol those poor people are gonna have to pay their parking tickets as well as the fee for removing and damaging the boot and possibly face charges for destruction of government property. Look. A crash from the fuuuutuuuuurree https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fd8_1494554607 some douchebag nothing another douchebag (interchangeably) https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9eb_1494534541
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B4Ctom1 posted:Looks like Martinez or Benicia? Fulton in Berkeley.
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When I was in middle school~ish, my divorced dad was dating a woman with one working leg. She had some kind of auxiliary pedal arrangement in her van, it was an automatic with a second gas pedal where the clutch would ordinarily be on a manual. The first time he went to move it because it was parked behind his pickup, he proceeded to do almost exactly what the car in that gif did. Start to clutch in to slow down -> van speeds up, stab brake/clutch harder, van speeds up more, repeat this feedback loop until you hit something that won't move. He plowed into the back of his pickup and pushed it until it hit a tree, sat there for like 10-15 seconds wondering wtf, then went to reverse away and did the exact same thing again; got the rear wheels over a railroad tie next to the driveway then got stuck hard enough to spin out the back tires on the gravel. So that's my theory. It's also possible they're just a moron. Re: school buses, I saw a perfect microcosm of child_worship.jpg the other day. The elementary and middle schools here are across a main street from each other, and somebody decided that everyone should just use the middle school cafeteria/kitchen to save money, which results in teachers herding groups of 30+ variably sentient children across a busy street several times daily. They have their own light and pedestrian crossing, but that's not good enough so they will happily take up 2-3x the amount of time the signal gives them and just block the entire loving road until the last kid waddles across. Of course, this requires a pair of those little neon yellow plastic "watch out, kids" standup things, which are deployed across the entire god damned bike lane on both sides. Because really, gently caress everyone else in the city, it's very important that the elementary school not use the cafeteria they have sitting there idle to save those pennies.
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Javid posted:Re: school buses, I saw a perfect microcosm of child_worship.jpg the other day. The elementary and middle schools here are across a main street from each other, and somebody decided that everyone should just use the middle school cafeteria/kitchen to save money, which results in teachers herding groups of 30+ variably sentient children across a busy street several times daily. They have their own light and pedestrian crossing, but that's not good enough so they will happily take up 2-3x the amount of time the signal gives them and just block the entire loving road until the last kid waddles across. Of course, this requires a pair of those little neon yellow plastic "watch out, kids" standup things, which are deployed across the entire god damned bike lane on both sides. Because really, gently caress everyone else in the city, it's very important that the elementary school not use the cafeteria they have sitting there idle to save those pennies. Must not be on the route between city hall and the Platystemon fucked around with this message at 04:04 on May 15, 2017 |
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Javid posted:Re: school buses, I saw a perfect microcosm of child_worship.jpg the other day. The elementary and middle schools here are across a main street from each other, and somebody decided that everyone should just use the middle school cafeteria/kitchen to save money, which results in teachers herding groups of 30+ variably sentient children across a busy street several times daily. They have their own light and pedestrian crossing, but that's not good enough so they will happily take up 2-3x the amount of time the signal gives them and just block the entire loving road until the last kid waddles across. Of course, this requires a pair of those little neon yellow plastic "watch out, kids" standup things, which are deployed across the entire god damned bike lane on both sides. Because really, gently caress everyone else in the city, it's very important that the elementary school not use the cafeteria they have sitting there idle to save those pennies. That doesn't seem to qualify as "child worship." The kids and teachers both are getting screwed by some faceless beancounting administrator in the central office. Nobody involved actually wants to do that, they're being forced to.
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Deteriorata posted:That doesn't seem to qualify as "child worship." The kids and teachers both are getting screwed by some faceless beancounting administrator in the central office. Nobody involved actually wants to do that, they're being forced to. Also, it’s not unusual for a town’s schools to have a central kitchen, cook things there every day, and truck the food to outlying campuses, where it is served and eaten. That system has its downsides, but it would be preferable to this farce.
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Two mustangs, twice the carnage https://www.facebook.com/fox11la/videos/vb.160288360552/10158697521835553/?type=2&theater
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