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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1



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Fair enough. Someone with *that* mindset, then.



On this particular Rotary, there are "dual right turn lanes. Both are also "continue the circle" lanes as far as traffic goes. See the pic above that shows the Cape cod bush. The conflict occurs when a driver on the "left" right turn lane wants to turn right, but the driver on the "right" right turn lane wants to "continue the circle." That "continue the circle" driver may ignore the others' right turn signal and then honk and be pi$$ed at him when he thinks the driver in the left right turn lane is trying to cut him off. Some of those drivers may try to force the "left" right turn lane driver to "continue the circle" anyway, not giving way so he can turn right.

Not a pretty sight if an accident ensues.

Sounds like a case of piss poor engineering.
There's this thing with driving called right of way.
A driver is not required to yield to someone cutting across their path if they have right of way.

Too many drivers think their path is the only path and anyone else in the road has to yield to them.
It doesn't work that way.

Piss poor engineering by people that don't actually drive is a huge part of every day accidents and confusion on the road. Add in cell phone use, inattentiveness and just poor driving skills, all play a part in daily accidents.

All you have to do is look at these retarded criss cross intersections. It's clear that a non-driver designed them. People get used to them, but they suck for traffic control.
 
Fair enough. Someone with *that* mindset, then.



On this particular Rotary, there are "dual right turn lanes. Both are also "continue the circle" lanes as far as traffic goes. See the pic above that shows the Cape cod bush. The conflict occurs when a driver on the "left" right turn lane wants to turn right, but the driver on the "right" right turn lane wants to "continue the circle." That "continue the circle" driver may ignore the others' right turn signal and then honk and be pi$$ed at him when he thinks the driver in the left right turn lane is trying to cut him off. Some of those drivers may try to force the "left" right turn lane driver to "continue the circle" anyway, not giving way so he can turn right.

Not a pretty sight if an accident ensues.
Then that’s just a piss poor design. The inside lane should never have a turn option.
 
Then that’s just a piss poor design. The inside lane should never have a turn option.

That's what I said.

The DOT has a bunch of idiots working for them.
Look at any business that tears down and rebuilds.
It used to be the parking lots were always on the road side of the property.

Now, any time a business is rebuilt, the building goes up close to the road.

I see two very large issues with this.
1. If there's a road departure accident, the building stands a near 100% chance of being hit.
2. If the DOT decides to widen the road, which is a very likely occurrence, the building has to come down to allow that to happen.

The old way allowed the parking lot to just get a little smaller. Now it costs millions to tear down and rebuild. Again...
 
Sounds like a case of piss poor engineering.
There's this thing with driving called right of way.
A driver is not required to yield to someone cutting across their path if they have right of way.

Too many drivers think their path is the only path and anyone else in the road has to yield to them.
It doesn't work that way.

Piss poor engineering by people that don't actually drive is a huge part of every day accidents and confusion on the road. Add in cell phone use, inattentiveness and just poor driving skills, all play a part in daily accidents.

All you have to do is look at these retarded criss cross intersections. It's clear that a non-driver designed them. People get used to them, but they suck for traffic control.
In HS driver's ed the teacher always said,
"Right of way is something you can yield, never something U have."
But then he was also the gym teacher.
 
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Sounds like a case of piss poor engineering.

Then that’s just a piss poor design. The inside lane should never have a turn option.

Agreed. But I think those designers had different objectives.

Their problem was "traffic flow" and keeping it flowing all the way down to Woods Hole (and, maybe, also to (then) Otis AFB. now "Joint base Cape Cod" I think), which is just North of Falmouth/Woods Hole. Hence, two lanes turning right. I guess they figured that's the way 90+% of the traffic was going to go, anyway. It's weird because just South of Otis, at "Brick Kiln Rd" it drops to one lane each way. And, as you enter the CDP of Woods Hole, it's one lane with maybe a 25mph limit that might go up to 35 in lightly populated areas. Imagine all the 18-wheelers and busses that have to travel that road to get to the ferries.
 
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It really doesn't matter what objective the designer/engineer had.
The design and its execution was still piss poor. And very dangerous.

If an objective appears solid on the outset, but the only way to execute it is flawed, then the objective itself is flawed, and must change along with the design.
 
It really doesn't matter what objective the designer/engineer had.
The design and its execution was still piss poor. And very dangerous.

If an objective appears solid on the outset, but the only way to execute it is flawed, then the objective itself is flawed, and must change along with the design.

More morons / idiots ignore the rules at roundabouts than traffic signals....
 
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