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Author Topic: Brad: Where Is Rockwall? Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-17-2004 10:56 PM                       Dang, Brad! I was really close to your place on my last trip! I dropped a trailer at the railyard in Garland, and then snuck over to Dickey's in Rowlett. If I'd known we were that close, we could've crashed Dickey's.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-17-2004 11:24 PM                     Dickey's rules! I have one about 4 miles from my place.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-18-2004 12:03 AM                       Yeahhh, man! Hey, I found a Dickey's in New Jersey, too. Can you believe that?! The same people. I freaked.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-18-2004 12:20 AM                     There is one in Denver near the Chinese 16 too! Amazingly I lived there for a year and only ate there one time. It was excellent, as always.  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 01-18-2004 01:46 AM                     Dallas streets are pretty bad, but I agree it is mostly the retard drivers. It is not uncommon to creep along at 5mph for over a mile when the wreck is on the other side of the road. There should also be some sort of PSA to explain the purpose of the entrance ramp.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-18-2004 01:50 AM                  So Brad, it appears that you and Tim are into "Dickeys"... Hubba Hubba! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-18-2004 02:21 AM                        quote: Daryl wrote: Maybe it's the traffic engineers who need the higher IQ. It would help at least a little. Anything less than 3 lanes each way on any road should be illegal. Round-a-bouts are extrememly retarded. Whoever thought those up deserves to decompose alive! A few may disagree, but that is only because they are wrong.  |  IP: Logged Gracia L. Babbidge Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 709 From: Bowdoin, Maine Registered: Aug 2000 posted 01-18-2004 02:34 AM                        You want to talk about roads that are laid out crazily & inefficiently? Virtually anywhere in New England fits that bill. Boothbay Harbor, Maine is particularly wacky!  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 01-18-2004 02:43 AM                        Round-a-bouts are fine, and actually more efficient, for lower traffic densities if designed properly. The problem is the bureaucrats that don't want to pay to get rid of them when cities grow and traffic density rises.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-18-2004 09:17 AM                       I can't think of one place on Earth with low traffic density. Try driving an 18-wheeler in a rotary! And people are so ignorant/impatient they don't realize about the trailer off-tracking, so they try to come around me. Then, I have to stand on the brakes to keep from running over them. I could go on and on about stupid drivers in 4-wheelers! You wouldn't believe some of the chances they take with big rigs. Like Gracia said, New England is the worst for poorly-designed roads. Sometimes on a 4-lane road (2 each direction), the right lane is a right-turn only and ends; sometimes the left one is the one that ends. There are no signs or road markings telling you this is going to happen, you just have to know it. Also, they never saw fit to post street signs anywhere. Most (MA, at least) are not marked in any way! But the most utterly stupid thing I've ever seen is the way pedestrians cross the street. They didn't seem to learn in elementary school to look both ways and wait for traffic to stop before crossing the street! They just start walking, without even looking!! Every week on the news, you hear about someone getting hit, and guess who gets charged with the accident? Forget that the guy walked out in front of you 10 ft. from the crossing, it doesn't matter to MA.  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 01-18-2004 10:33 AM                     Yep, Mass is good. I miss driving there - its too boring here. Basically back home you just jump out in the middle of the road with the assumption that people will stop, if they don't, your family will get lots of money! Seriously. Driving conversation continued in "Worst Places to Drive" thread.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-18-2004 10:51 AM                       Yep, you know what they say in the Army about assuming things. I'm a little more cautious crossing the street. I count on making it to the other side of the road, not the other side of existence.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-18-2004 02:53 PM                     quote: IMHO most of the roadways in the United States are inefficiently designed compared to other developed countries I disagree with that. On the basis of road design, the United States has the largest and most advanced road system on the planet. My jaw falls agape at some of the engineering marvels such as the Dallas High Five interchange project (LBJ Freeway and North Central in North Dallas). America is the only place with road projects as grand as that. The roads in Europe, Asia, Austrailia and all other developed nations are smaller and very cramped. Canada is the only country whose roads are designed with some similarity of scale to the U.S. The problem with our road system is NO BALANCE. Everyone drives. Most other developed nations in the world have well maintained mass-transit systems, many of which cover the entire country. In Japan, all you need to get around is a fold up bicycle to get you to the nearest train station. You can go anywhere in the country because passenger rail is ubiquitous. The same can be said for many areas of Europe. In the United States, mass transit for the most part is a disaster. The only networks that function well at all are the oldest ones in New York, Boston and Chicago. Mass transit systems in America are rife with corruption, especially in new construction projects. Why should it cost billions upon billions of dollars just to build a damned light rail system!? Another problem in the U.S. is the powerful auto-industry, road and airline lobbies. They all do a great job for killing off any efforts in developing mass transit alternatives, particularly anything rail-related. I think the United States is a laughing stock for not having any kind of modern, high-speed rail network. The AmTrak Acela Train on the Eastern Seaboard hardly counts either; that only serves the DC/Philly/NYC/Boston corridor on a single line. It pales in comparison to the TGV in France or Shinkansen ("Bullet Train") in Japan.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-18-2004 03:38 PM                     What part of quote: Driving conversation continued in "Worst Places to Drive" thread. did you not understand?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-18-2004 03:41 PM                     But Adam, there was no convenient link to the Worst Places to Drive thread!  |  IP: Logged

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