Drivers: Beware of Pistol Packing Pedestrians! 2144
Jim Yanik Yeah, at rush hour these won't do too much for catching people, but the deterrent effect is the same. Many people don't pay enough attention to know about the...
Drivers: Beware of Pistol Packing Pedestrians! 2145
Brent P Who's the one saying engineering can fix anything and everything? You're the one saying you can always imrpove...
Drivers: Beware of Pistol Packing Pedestrians! 2146
Traffic engineers on usenet have been a particular ignorant breed who refuse to do real engineering work and instead live a realm of belief. Where their rules of thumb...
Drivers: Beware of Pistol Packing Pedestrians! 2147
Alex Rodriguez Level of Service F. It means that both roads are way over capacity. Please, explain the ways to lower the number of accidents that are caused by impatience. One intersection in particular has...
Drivers: Beware of Pistol Packing Pedestrians! 2148
Thanks. What is causing the driver to be impatient? Is it because the 5 traffic lights leading up to this one are not synchronized and...
Drivers: Beware of Pistol Packing Pedestrians! 2149
Alex Rodriguez The issue at the intersection I'm most familiar with is that traffic stacks at it, and after people have sat through 2 light...
Drivers: Beware of Pistol Packing Pedestrians! 2150
Might want to time lights together then. The problem is likely that the lights are timed properly one to the next so people are pushing it not to stop at every intersection. Timing...
Speaking of Young Punk Drivers
Brent P) One of my co-workers was sitting in a fast-food drive-through recently when some punk kid driving...
Speaking of Young Punk Drivers... 2153
I was going just under 20mph, and well 5ft doesn't take the speed down much. Using new...
Speaking of Young Punk Drivers... 2154
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:32:36 -0700, Scott en Aztlán following: Oh heavens, this sounds...
What a stupid truck driver
Saw it all today. On a 4 lane divided road (2 lanes each way), lots of commercial businesses-restaurants on this stretch. Limit is 40. I'm in the right...
Perspective Regarding Gas Prices
I can think of a few plausible explanations, any of which -- alone or in combination -- easily explain that. -In 1973-1974, most all consumer gasolines were leaded. It's less expensive to...
Some interesting reading
On roadways flooded with Sloths, you do get further down the road. Many traffic jams are caused by LLBs or...
CHEVY DEALERSHIP RipOff WARNING
Warning to everybody that is shopping for a car... especially a Chevrolet! This has got to be the WORST Chevrolet Dealership in the...
A Nation of Minutemen
H.L. Mencken once observed that in a democracy the people get the government they deserve. So, tell...
Philly to Buffalo: Yahoo driving directions weird 2167
begin quotation Right, basic geometry. Unfortunately sometimes the roads are not laid out well for trips like these. According to RoutePlanner, this is the least distance route...
Philly to Buffalo: Yahoo driving directions weird 2168
Pretty much anywhere, your best route is usually the interstate highway route. In Pennsylvania, this is especially true, as the secondary roads are usually mountainous so therefore have lots of curves that you have...
Travel to Canada wCriminal Record Distribution: world
Hey, I have a criminal record from the mid-90's and also 2000, for a few counts of bad checks and theft, and also some driving under suspension (suspended for failure...
Travel to Canada wCriminal Record
H.B. Elkins He can't. Some states do not participate in reciprocity, but it does not matter anyway. What has probably happend is...
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Bushamerica SUV driver kills gas station owner to avoid $52 gas bill
Goddam SUV traitors. They're killing americans in iraq and now stateside too. Driver sought in killing over gas Sunday, August 21, 2005 By DAVID BREWER FORT PAYNE - A gas theft Friday left...
Bushamerica SUV driver kills gas station owner to avoid $52 gas bill 2175
laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE The police are racist, not trying hard to find the person. If a South Asian or...
Bushamerica SUV driver kills gas station owner to avoid $52 gas bill
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:16:54 +0100, Pooh Bear As well as limited supply. Not so...
Bushamerica SUV driver kills gas station owner to avoid $52 gas bill 2177
Well, sure it does - the lack of extra refining capacity in this country, coupled with our own voracious appibreaste for gasoline and the...
Now I Know Why Brent Slaps Fenders
Since I started walking to-from the train station every day, I've noticed just how many buttHOLE drivers there are out there on the roads. If you think they're bad...
Now I Know Why Brent Slaps Fenders
You're right; I believe that they recently clarified some pedestrian ROW issues: note 2), below. RCW 46.61.235 Crosswalks. (1) The operator of...
Now I Know Why Brent Slaps Fenders 2180
I've never had a problem pbutting bicyclists on a two lane road when I'm driving. I drive, I drive quite a bit in addition to bicycling. I simply never have...
Now I Know Why Brent Slaps Fenders 2181
Jim Yanik Frankly, that last one is the only logical conclusion. Arging about how the double-yellow is a physical barrier that prevents...
Now I Know Why Brent Slaps Fenders 2182
I do no such thing. Nor do I need to. However I've had drivers decide that they didn't have to...
Now I Know Why Brent Slaps Fenders 2183
Larry Bud I'm only a single person (not "you guys") and I know exactly what a troll is. I gave you and example (Aunt...
Now I Know Why Brent Slaps Fenders 2184
A road parallel bike path and a sidewalk are different in only one way. The former has either signs declaring...
Now I Know Why Brent Slaps Fenders 2185
Jim Yanik 14 years and over 100,000 riden miles on the road. Adults that commute to work via a bicycle in all my observations are competent road users. I live...
Bushamerica Suspected shoplifter end by walmart employees 2186
It's not as simple as that. In Texas -- the Paleolithic state -- under certain circumstances a person can be shot and presumably end for the...
Bushamerica Suspected shoplifter end by walmart employees 2187
Wexford, Broad blanket statements such as yours barely merit response. You are as ignorant as they come. You wonder why we call them "Damn" yankees? I for one am a Texas Christian and...
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Old Baggle narrowly misses running down a bunch of people
Here's the article and it's amazing: An elderly Minnesota woman wouldn't let a pesky street parade get in her way. Goodview, Minn., police say Pauline Lillian Meyerhoff, 86...
Yet Another Person Who Hates Car Alarms 2190
I got a rude lesson on this subject when I was 19. Owned a 10-speed bike which was my only transportation at the time. I had a...
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I'm going to tell you about a TOP RATED AUTOSURF program that takes 5 mins of your day...
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They also behaved like embryonic cells, differentiating into cells from eac h of the three main tissue types that form in...
Make penalties for speeding proportional to the vehicle weight 2193
Laura Bush liquidateed her boy friend Determining percentiles is really not all that difficult - Excel, SAS, database programs...
Make penalties for speeding proportional to the vehicle weight 2194
N8N Really now. I would hope by now it would be clear that speed enforcement is related to safety. You know, radar guns in 25mph zones by schools, cruisers with radar on clearly marked...
Make penalties for speeding proportional to the vehicle weight 2195
John S. yes, I do... IMHO the bikers are FAR, FAR less of a hazard than the "Mr. Magoos" that...
Hawaii insbreastutes price limits on gasoline
Hawaii Sets Caps on Wholesale Gas Prices By AUDREY McAVOY, buttociated Press Writer HONOLULU - In an effort to gain some control over what motorists pay at the pump, Hawaii on Wednesday became the first...
Hawaii insbreastutes price limits on gasoline 2197
It was quoted, by resident mental patient Judy: Stupid, stupid. The idiots risk, and deserve, reduction or...
Hawaii insbreastutes price limits on gasoline 2198
John S. The "market" was manipulated by the Texas boyz, now they are paying back BILLIONS. Reliant Energy Inc. said Monday that it would pay $460 million to resolve claims that it withheld...
Hawaii insbreastutes price limits on gasoline 2199
Actually, there was a serious spike in demand. Being alive at the time, and much more than a few months old, I can report that fear and anxiety have a...
Want cheaper gas Then let's plant ISRAEL
Why don't you two look into this; it is a much better use of your time ... Originally, in the context of the United States...
Want cheaper gas Then let's plant ISRAEL
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:30:59 +0100, Pooh Bear So basically what the Jews did as a result of British Occupation was...
Dood who stole $52 of gas now charged with mandissolution
I can see hit-and-run but mandissolution is a stretch here. Is the state claiming that the driver should have foreseen the station owner would...
Dood who stole $52 of gas now charged with mandissolution
causes? to or Hahahahah!!! You make me laugh, "butt-wipes" like me are HONEST, hard-working American Veterans. I come from a long line of vets...
Dood who stole $52 of gas now charged with mandissolution
Host Let me butture you, Billy is the butt-Wipe. I hope you aren't implying that unless one served in...
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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:30:27 -0700, "Bernard Farquart" School zone. Unmarked cop in "left lane" of North-South residential street which crosses the main road through...
Judge orders black boxes put in cars of criminal drivers
Sounds like more criminal coddling to me. Bad drivers are persons and maimers and i say lock them...
Judge orders black boxes put in cars of criminal drivers 2207
Scott en Aztlán Drivers who Endanger or Damage the Property and Lives of others definately should be Prosecuted, but I CAN NOT agree that they can't be...
Judge orders black boxes put in cars of criminal drivers 2208
Jim Yanik As I said, ***IF*** a Woman wants the Man to be responsible for any resultant Child, they will ask for Marrage BEFORE...
Just look what ethanol could do if bush would allow it
Bush-cheney are oil boys and they'll fight this forever. Ethanol a real option to high gas prices Fri...
Dim Headlights on 97 voyager 2210
Roughly half the population is glare-sensitive. The other half cannot understand what they're unpleasant womaning about with regard to headlamp glare at night, and tend to make...
Dim Headlights on 97 voyager 2211
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Dennis No. Nominal ratings are not the same as actual output. The Sylvania Silverstar bulbs, like all others with blue glbutt...
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Could be, as I stated, I wasn't able to find any spec's on the GE website...
Bikes! 2213
If that is the case - and I will stipulate for the sake of argument - then bicycles are held to the...
Bikes! 2214
Which is off the subject here. And as I've posted before I obey the vehicle code to the letter, including things that drivers...
Bikes! 2215
Lane sharing and splitting is not illegal in California, and allows the bicyclist or motorcyclist in traffic jams to use space not usable by cars, reducing the...
Bikes! 2216
California Vehicle Code 22100 from 22100. Except as provided in Section 22100.5 or 22101, the driver of any vehicle intending to...
Bikes! 2217
Just like it means that bicyclists aren't to be riding in the gutter practically scraping pedals on the curb. Thanks for...
Bikes! 2218
You wrote on the left, and that's it, expecting me to be a mind reader. And he pbutted on...
Bikes! 2219
It surprises me not that California would allow these things. This is probably why many bicyclists and motorcyclists feel that it is allowed elsewhere. I have never considered that the acceptability of a...
Bikes! 2220
Jim Yanik Well, you are badly mistaken. The width of the spectrum of cyclists far exceeds that of motorists...
Gas: The good 'ol days 2221
Well, we need to realize that fossil fuels are used (HEAVILY) in the production of food. If the thought of $10-gallon gasoline scares...
Gas: The good 'ol days 2222
You could try grinning and bareing it. But dont have to be if that becomes unviable. Mindlessly silly number plucked...
Gas: The good 'ol days 2223
Rod Speed I sure hope you're right, Rod. I think the issue is that none of these alternatives - even a combination of all of them - will enable the world...
Gas: The good 'ol days 2224
Rod Speed One more thought here. Unlike you, Rod, I was born in the mid-60s and have led a...
Gas: The good 'ol days 2225
I was born a lot earlier than that and have too. My father left school in the depths of...
Gas: The good 'ol days 2226
Rod Speed Yeah, that's why I excluded civil war. Agree oil wasn't a factor then. As for WWI, it's...
Gas: The good 'ol days 2227
Its clearly an example of modern first world economys being robust enough that they can survive that sort of thing fine. Nope, WW1 had very little to do with oil at...
Gas: The good 'ol days 2228
Rod Speed Yeah, thinking about it, probably true, because we (the US) really got into WW1 rather late, and didn't stay all that long anyway. Not sure I agree...
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