us AAirways
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Do people just tow huge trailers for fun?? 90% of them I see around here are empty. Same with the crew cab trucks, rarely anything in the bed??
The roundabouts here replaced 4-way stops that would back up well into neighborhoods at rush hour. Now it does move smoothly, once people did figure out to yield instead of stop. PD is calling them a success, saying that the number of accidents went down very little but they all involved much lower speeds and fewer injuries.
The first time I hit that diverging diamond near St Louis, I think I stopped cold. There were lanes, turns, and traffic signals everywhere. I think I slowly drove through, following the overhead signs, and hoping I wouldn't hit, or get hit by, anything else.
Around here the diverging diamond is used where there isn't room for a clover leaf...they use land far more efficiently and don't require wiping out big chunks of neighborhoods like clover leafs would in urban areas.
People will get used to them...but many are resistant to change...some obstinately so.
The diverging diamond really doesn't use materially less space than a cloverleaf
Sounds like god was watching out for you.
Glad it worked out, Nate. Be glad the road wasn't wet and/or you weren't on a crowded highway full of knuckleheads.
I came back from St. Simons Monday night. That's a straight shot up I-95, then onto the DC beltway to home. Other than the cop traps through Georgia and South Carolina the trip was fine until the last 30 miles. It started raining. And the idiocy of the drivers on I-95 & the Beltway was truly stunning. I remarked more than once that that stretch of road was outright dangerous to deadly. Even though I was in a rather nimble car (not the truck), it was one of the few times that I've been truly concerned when driving on that particular road (and I've been driving it pretty much all of my life, even when living far away as I returned regularly to visit family members).
Take construction of toll lanes in what would be the median of a highway, multiple (4-6) lanes, three-way highway split, drivers that would get into the left or left-center lane & drive 35-40 (speed limit 55), nutjobs that weave through the traffic at 70+, sudden braking, etc in the rain. And a confusing split between the "free" lanes and the "toll" lanes on the beltway (someone got killed due to confusion the other day). I was outright surprised that no one got killed in that traffic.
Your truck would be a goner, 'cause folks here subscribe to what I call the Italian method of driving: don't worry about what's behind you - it's their problem not yours.
Ok, thread drift ... but what's new with that here?I did the 3500 GMC rear cylinder upgrade on my 2500 - I think it's a couple mm bigger but your 3500 probably already has the larger cylinder. Something to look at tho. I'll find the part number for you.