jammyozzy posted:

Nope, large parts of Coventry were destroyed during the Blitz, giving planners an almost clean slate to work with. England went ring road crazy for a couple of decades after the war, for example at one point London was supposed to have 4 concentric ring roads rather than the one and a half it has today.

Gail Wynand posted:

It's probably a government facility of some sort.

magimix posted:

It never ceases to amaze me how totally nuts people can be when it comes to level crossings (as we call them in the UK).

As with any country, we have a mixture of crossings; some without barriers (not that common, at least in my neck of the woods), some with a barrier covering one lane in each direction, and the majority covering both lanes in both directions.

For the un-barriered ones, so many just ignore the lights and drive over. For the partial barriers, I've seen my share of people slaloming around the barriers. And I've even seen people try to beat the fully barried ones.

One time I was snarled up in stop-start traffic, movely slowly along single-carriageway road that had a fully-barried level crossing. Bearing in mind the traffic was wholly backed up, most people were being reasonable, and not entering the crossing until the definitely knew they could clear it.

Apart from the guy in front of me, who got to the crossing as the lights came up, and decided to go for it. He cleared the tracks, but not the crossing as a whole. So the barrier dropped down onto the bonnet of his car. Then lifted up, and dropped back down again. And it kept doing this, chop-chop-chop, all the way along his car, one end to the other, as he slowly exited the crossing.

Cichlidae posted:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3177805&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=8#post364114693

Is it that one, maybe? There was also another post (not mine) that compared the perceived times spent waiting for a bus, train, in a car, etc.

Cichlidae posted:

Pretty sobering! Ours here aren't nearly so compelling. Here are our ads.

Hippie Hedgehog posted:

You don't mention which country you're from, but I assume it's not in southern or eastern Europe. People there drive way crazier than Americans. Try Istanbul or Athens, for example. But the bright side is, you get used to it! You'll be just as bad yourself after a few weeks in that environment.

meltie posted:

the M6 is a hellzone of Range Rover drivers.

Midget Fist posted:

More education is needed so that cyclists know which side of the road to ride on, and to stop at lights, but... if you could get every single driver of a car to do the same, that would be great. So many times as a pedestrian I've nearly been run over crossing on a walk signal, because someone turning right couldn't be bothered to look. Better enforcement of the rules by the police, prosecuting offenders on both sides would help. Drivers in the US get away with all kinds of dangerous stuff like not signalling, weaving, talking on phones, etc that should be come down hard on.

Jonnty posted:

New crossing installations in the UK do sometimes cancel the sequence if people walk away or walk over early. It's quite cool looking back and watching the "pressed" light go out.

Wikipedia posted:

Safety

In the morning of 25 April 1999 on the M3 motorway in Hampshire, England, a van dislodged the steel body of a cat's eye which flew through the windscreen of a following car and hit a passenger (the drum and bass DJ known as Kemistry) in the face, killing her instantly. The coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death.[13] Investigators acknowledged that the cat's eye bodies occasionally came loose, but added that such an accident was previously unheard of.[14] A question was asked in the House of Lords about the safety of cat's eyes in light of the incident, and the Highways Agency conducted an investigation into the "long-term integrity and performance" of various types of road stud.[15]

Install Gentoo posted:

This site is just really neat: http://www.cbrd.co.uk/badjunctions/12-130-138/



I really wonder what the engineer responsible for this interchange design was thinking.

PittTheElder posted:

Come again? How are these children even getting the cars to move? God damnit it world.

Terminal Entropy posted:

Also, this ends up being the result if everyone where to go exactly the speed limit:

Volmarias posted:

25 mph is way safer than 55. Why not set a mandatory limit at 25?

Cichlidae posted:

Any monument within the clear zone is a very bad idea. It should either be moved or protected with barrier / guiderail. Somehow, though, I doubt any municipality would let the DOT do that, even if it meant killing someone every now and then.

MyFaceBeHi posted:

My strategy is to start out with hub and spokes then, after the first week, put a new line in then go for a grid setup after that.

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They pushed out a new update for Mini Metro today. The most notable thing is there are unlimited tunnels now, but the train will go slowly through it so it's still more of a risk to go south of the river (which is true in actual London).

Install Windows posted: