Learned a new word meaning. The only gore I was familiar with came after the accident.
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The original toll road, the FL Turnpike, was privately financed. To this day it still remains in far better condition than any of the federal/state funded roads. Sometimes you get what you pay for, but not when it comes to state/federal funds. Take I-95 south from I-26 to the GA border for instance. You can break an axle in the potholes.
Ivan the Butcher
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Never having heard the word GORE used that way before, I assumed it was the location where the accident gore was stacked during the last clean-up!
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LVSteve
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Don't worry, I'd never heard of it until I moved to the US. "Fog line" had me baffled for a while, too.
While not the only place it happened, DFW was the place last year where it was noticeable that drivers would roar along in the left lane (of 4) then cut across three lanes dodging traffic to take an exit only 100 yards ahead.
Then there was the driver in Waco in the far left on a 5 lane. He cut right across two lanes, into the space I was moving lanes to the left, then cut between me and the slower vehicle in front of me I was wanting to overtake, right across to take the exit on the right. That almost caused an impact. Luckily I saw him and moved back to the right just in time.
But...... one thing we did notice, both in 2018 and 2022,. apart from major cities where traffic can be so heavy that freeways slow right down, American freeways run much better than those Down Under.
Be thankful you don't drive in Auckland during peak traffic flow. (actually nobody "drives" in Auckland during peak traffic. It is all stop and go a few yards then repeat. Endlessly).
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LVSteve
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A simple "Traffic sucks" would have sufficed.
What I described is not traffic. What I described is variously stupidity, incompetence, or sheer bloody-mindedness. Traffic I must accept, those other things, not so much.
While we have far less traffic volume here than does Vegas, I think you would find our percentage of incompetent drivers to be much higher. I see all that and more on my daily commute of around 20 miles. I have several times passed (or been passed by) drivers on the freeway who had a book propped on the steering wheel evidently reading as they drove along at 70-80 mph.
ME too...had to look that one up. OP must be a civil engineer...
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Here in NJ a school bus driver was arrested for DWI-smashed into a house.
The first arrests from driving and smoking MJ. A teenage girl got hard time for striking a pedestrian, a woman arrested for vehicular manslaughter.
"You ain't seen nothing yet!"
The first arrests from driving and smoking MJ. A teenage girl got hard time for striking a pedestrian, a woman arrested for vehicular manslaughter.
"You ain't seen nothing yet!"
Me too. I know my reflexes aren't what they used to be, and with traffic the way it is, I'm all done. Haven't been on the ground since '69, gonna keep it that way. This Spring, I'll shine up the old Sportster, put a "For Sale" sign on the handle bars. It'll break my heart to see it go, but it's time.
Sounds like the original poster was associated with a transportation department or road engineering design firm.
Having worked in transportation one finds a number of words no one else has heard of....Superelevation comes to mind...
Having worked in transportation one finds a number of words no one else has heard of....Superelevation comes to mind...
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LVSteve
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That one also comes up when being trained to shoot a Stinger.
I've been working from home since 95 when I retired on the farm back east and on the ranch out here. There is no road congestion near where I live. When we get to the paved road I ask my wife what's it look like your way? 95 times out of a 100 she says...normal...no traffic. I went to the online auction the other day to pick up my winnings and when we got to the paved road we saw...1 car and 3 P/Us..most ever at one time...but it WAS rush hour LOL
I've been doing this a lot lately. It's not all it's cracked up to be, but it does keep me off the Vegas roads. On Wednesday I got a reminder of this benefit. Observed in a 14 mile journey across the valley at about 1000:
4) After all that I join another freeway, and realize within 300 yards I am rapidly catching a texter. They're not hard to spot with the car jerking left and right in, and sometimes outside, the lane and running 5-10 under the limit. I passed them but the windows were too heavily tinted to confirm the offense so I didn't call it in.
I am happy to report that my ride home was much less "interesting".That said, I really must get my dashcam fitted.
Wait, you call in if you see a texting driver?
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Yes, I can do that using Bluetooth and controls on the wheel. LE is on speed-dial. NHP are very happy to hear about them...in a teeth grinding sort of way.
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Here in NJ then Governor Corzine was in a bad crash, his State Police driver was trying to text while driving about 90 MPH.
And last June, Steve, a family of geese was walking west in the yellow lane on Wigwam. 
That's right, 2 adults and 3 little ones. I guess they felt walking was safer than driving. Can't make this stuff up.
Kaaskop49
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That's right, 2 adults and 3 little ones. I guess they felt walking was safer than driving. Can't make this stuff up.Kaaskop49
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Makes my head hurt knowing there is a "physical gore" as differentiated from a "theoretical gore." When will "true enlightenment" happen. Joe
