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Gary
SE Kansas
Forgot to add that I learned this new word by reading a blurb about MLK and the academic overlayer of modern society.
"As the nation celebrates the life and legacy of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it has become all too common to use his mission to prop up one cause or another. Perhaps the man’s most famous quote regarding content and character has been forgotten in this era of intersectional hierarchy. What would Dr. King make of this sad new evaluation of worth that is now so rampant in the public square?"
From an article by:
Mark Angelides
Mark Angelides is Managing Editor of Liberty Nation.com. Hailing from the UK, he specializes in EU politics and provides a conservative/libertarian voice on all things from across the pond. During the Brexit Referendum campaign, Mark worked to promote activism, spread the message and secure victory. He is the editor and publisher of several books on Ancient Chinese poetry.
Interesting read from a Brit.
"As the nation celebrates the life and legacy of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it has become all too common to use his mission to prop up one cause or another. Perhaps the man’s most famous quote regarding content and character has been forgotten in this era of intersectional hierarchy. What would Dr. King make of this sad new evaluation of worth that is now so rampant in the public square?"
From an article by:
Mark Angelides
Mark Angelides is Managing Editor of Liberty Nation.com. Hailing from the UK, he specializes in EU politics and provides a conservative/libertarian voice on all things from across the pond. During the Brexit Referendum campaign, Mark worked to promote activism, spread the message and secure victory. He is the editor and publisher of several books on Ancient Chinese poetry.
Interesting read from a Brit.
S Mac
Sept. 10, 2021 Steve left us. You are missed.
On a not so serious note I thought it might be what Kansas called the roundabout intersections they have so many of.
Gary
SE Kansas
I love those roundabouts.
462
California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
They've been popping up, here, too. Several gratefully slow neighborhood traffic, while others improve traffic flow through poorly designed and oddly shaped intersections. A huge one, that recently replaced multiple traffic lights that controlled the ons and offs and merging of two major highways, looks like something from a Rube Goldberg nightmare. However, as unnavigable as it appears, it seems to have eliminated the previous long, frustrating, and tourist induced traffic backups.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
They were common from New Jersey thru Pennsylvania to Eastern Ohio when I grew up before the Interstate Highway system. The one in Gettysburg, PA is square, but works the same way. But then all roads were two lanes except in downtown major cities.
fiver
Well-Known Member
weirdest one I ever seen was on a back road cutting over from old highway 20 into Idaho falls.
your just cruising down a 2 lane road with no shoulders and torn up pavement and there is a shiny brand new roundabout with no other roads intersecting it about 8-9 miles from the edge of town.
there is a thing in the middle with flowers and nice block walls around the sidewalk and a statue of some dude just standing there.
no plaque saying who he is, no warning it's coming up, just a bump when you run over the sidewalk on your way through.
your just cruising down a 2 lane road with no shoulders and torn up pavement and there is a shiny brand new roundabout with no other roads intersecting it about 8-9 miles from the edge of town.
there is a thing in the middle with flowers and nice block walls around the sidewalk and a statue of some dude just standing there.
no plaque saying who he is, no warning it's coming up, just a bump when you run over the sidewalk on your way through.
We've have a few across the state that have been here forever..... but these are classic,small town. Think 1920's and 30's..... work great.
Bout 10 or so years ago they started "force feeding" them in,trying to accomplish something? It's been about 50/50 success. The biggest issue is signage......
To begin with,if you're local..... you don't much need a sign( rt 123 goes this way)... So,signs are for folks that ain't from around here. And there's the problem. Our DOT engineering has a huge problem on where to put traffic signs. Halfway through a traffic circle ISN'T the place.
Bout 10 or so years ago they started "force feeding" them in,trying to accomplish something? It's been about 50/50 success. The biggest issue is signage......
To begin with,if you're local..... you don't much need a sign( rt 123 goes this way)... So,signs are for folks that ain't from around here. And there's the problem. Our DOT engineering has a huge problem on where to put traffic signs. Halfway through a traffic circle ISN'T the place.
Pistolero
Well-Known Member
I don't know 462, they sure blew it in 1774, 5 and 6.
As to roundabouts.....GRRR. PITA, and from a friend talking to a highway engineer,
they cause way more accidents than a stop sign. But, he says 'get used to it', the accidents
are more minor than a T-bone, so they think lots of little accidents, and lots of worn out
tires are a good trade off.
Me - I get more than my fill when driving in Europe, don't want them here, but here they
are. IMO, they only make sense when more or less than four roads leading to the intersection.
If it is four (two straight thru), which is 99% of all roads in Kansas, then leave them the heck
alone. When it is five or three (more common in old "cow path" states like Virgina, where I
used to live) then a roundabout makes sense, which is why they were invented in Europe,
where EVERYTHING was a cow path originally.
Bill
As to roundabouts.....GRRR. PITA, and from a friend talking to a highway engineer,
they cause way more accidents than a stop sign. But, he says 'get used to it', the accidents
are more minor than a T-bone, so they think lots of little accidents, and lots of worn out
tires are a good trade off.
Me - I get more than my fill when driving in Europe, don't want them here, but here they
are. IMO, they only make sense when more or less than four roads leading to the intersection.
If it is four (two straight thru), which is 99% of all roads in Kansas, then leave them the heck
alone. When it is five or three (more common in old "cow path" states like Virgina, where I
used to live) then a roundabout makes sense, which is why they were invented in Europe,
where EVERYTHING was a cow path originally.
Bill
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CZ93X62
Official forum enigma
A rangemaster buddy of mine from work--also a traffic sergeant and commercial truck inspector--calls the roundabouts "A collision vortex". He and his troops HATE THEM. Every little town and city in California has to build 2 to 10 of the things, too. So trendy and chic.
462
California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Bill said, "I don't know 462, they sure blew it in 1774, 5 and 6."
That they did! I was referencing several Brit writers who I had read during the last president's reign. Perhaps living beyond the trees they can see the forest.
Michael
That they did! I was referencing several Brit writers who I had read during the last president's reign. Perhaps living beyond the trees they can see the forest.
Michael
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INTERSECTIONALITY You notice all the news & football announcers are adding the "ality" to all kinds of words? Sort of like all European voiced TV people are smarter than the rest of us uncutured jerks (red necks). As for traffic circles, eliminate them! KC was full of them, a few are gone now. We're starting to get them now on major roads - kinda 'figure it out yourself' mentality by traffic managers. Used to be a big one on a major highway here that they 'disposed of' due to the number of fatalities. Then there was the new 4 lane (each direction) one where you are supposed to know what a 'michigan' U turn is. Spent many M$ fixing it. Just finished the new toll road (121) now they are going to add lanes to it. Did the same with GBT. Hey, keep the Gov. money flowing.