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Originally Posted by lowsparkco
This is the screen you get after hitting the button “Reject All”
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Just amazing
How did you suppose it might work?Quote:
Originally Posted by ::: :::
Ultra local issue.
https://www.wcax.com/2023/10/12/uvm-...usy-crosswalk/
Dang kids these days. 40+ years ago UVM had a solution. They put in a tunnel a few hundred yards down the road. Im not sure what happened to it when they built the Davis center. There's no question that it is a dangerous place to cross on a busy street. It's freaking US Route 2 for crying out loud. And it's hard enough as it is to drive in and out of Burlington. Don't make it harder. They need to go back to not allowing pedestrians to cross there. Tunnel AND bridge if they have to. I just can't get over how the students think the cars are the problem.
Main Street should go underground just below Prospect street and emerge just past the Spear street exchange. Make the whole top of the hill the university with just local access. It would improve thru traffic flow immensely.
While they are planning that they also need a tunnel from Battery Street to the belt line to get all that traffic out of the Old North End. I’ve thought about this a lot as I’m kind of a boring person.
I am going to respectfully disagree on a main street road tunnel. It's not our fault the way UVM has decided to develop the top of the hill. They should adjust to the road not the other way around. Generally, yes, I do prefer fewer roads, want things people centric, etc and normally I would agree with you. I'm annoyed by UVM's arrogance in thinking they own Burlington and the students' arrogance in ignoring the past solution that was put in when their parents were children. Burying the road puts the expense on us, the taxpayer. If UVM wants a contiguous campus, they should pay for it. If they acted more like a state university and in state students were served better, ok, ya, maybe I'll foot more of the bill. A people tunnel and a people bridge would be cheaper and less disruptive than burying the road. Also it's about time US 2 just bypassed Burlington entirely. [My family has four generations of involvement with UVM both as employees and or students.]Quote:
Originally Posted by Flounder
As someone that went to university in the middle of Philadelphia, having to navigate much larger intersections than those in Burlington, I can only laugh and cry regarding the perceived distress these students face each day.
77 vehicles breaking the law and running a red light in an hour at a public marked and signalized crosswalk is not a taxpayer, enforcement or vehicle behavior issue and is in fact is a pedestrian and UVM issue? Tell me more...
Sure, the solution is to separate the pedestrians from the cars via a tunnel probably (bridges don't work), but this isn't a pedestrian behavior issue as presented.
Lol. Ya. Name any big city school, right? I was sitting in the student building at MIT one weekend afternoon while my HS kid attended Splash. A car did a u-turn in the massive crosswalk, while people were using it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elkhound Odin
That said, the stretch of road from the Jug handle to Prospect Street really sucks for pedestrians and cars alike. Flounder isn't entirely wrong. Burying Main street under UVM would be pretty cool for a lot of reasons. I just have a chip on my shoulder about UVM, especially because in the late 70s they built a pedestrian tunnel for this exact reason. The crosswalks all got closed, no pedx allowed. I used to ride my bicycle through it, stairs and all. And then at some point they changed their minds.
Tunnel is still there…..goes right into Davis Center.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
OK. you have to go through a building.Quote:
Originally Posted by BC.
And you can't ride a bike. When I was a kid we would ride our bike down the steps.
Yes…and I would say hardly anyone uses it. Hence, why I guess everyone is always pissed about crossing the street?Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
Who knows?…they got a lot more problems to worry about up there than problems crossing a street.
so, now you can ride you're bike down the steps and be chased by security?... as a kid, that's gotta be a win win.
fact.
Catapults are hot right now.
School district leadership.
Holy shit, we just finished our trips to Chicago and Louisville and we’re just slack jawed at how transportation departments are run in each place.
The former is super reliant on a single guy to manage and update their databases each month, and pay him an insane amount each year (>$500k) to keep them functional so that buses can do their job.
The latter is in complete disarray, with a lack of staffing due to losing a bunch of critical staff. Their system was built by a guy no longer there, and is in life support now by the remaining (hardworking) staff.
In both cases they need a complete revamp of their systems, and in both cases they are facing pressure from the public to “do something” and address their woes. But the leadership in both places are so under-informed and borderline clueless that they are pushing unreasonable solutions and timelines that simply cannot be met.
And they were asking US to help them out. Fuckers. We ain’t going to risk slagging through the mud just so you can fuck up your school transportation further.
Gaaaahhh.
Rant over.
I basically grew up on that campus and getting chased by security was just another day for me. No idea why they let me come back and get a degree. Or let one of my kids go there. But, riding mt bikes with a head full of boomers and a good buddy in a raging snow storm with gobs of fresh snow on the ground and catching air off the berms between the lot levels at Gutterson long before they built the parking garage was all time. We rode all over the city that night. It was hero snow and we were 19 and invincible!Quote:
Originally Posted by m2711c
Louisville school system has been horrible forever. I can't imagine how any student could thrive in that system. I had distant cousins there in the early 80's. They were a grade apart and didn't go to the same high school. And the schools were on opposite sides of town.Quote:
Originally Posted by S_jenks
Fuck Audible and in turn fuck Amazon. Fucking fucks have been charging me $14.95 a month (I’m a moran and never saw the charges). I didn’t even have a fucking account with Audible.
The lady on the phone kept asking who else in the house could have done it. Listen fuck face the kid didn’t do it and my partner and I have a joint account separate from my personal one. In short fuck right off.
The good news is the intertoobz are full of similar stories, so at least I’m not the only idiot.
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why is it that when I go from BFE to Stanford my Verizon service slows way down?
is the cell service always this shitty in the city?
I thought it would be better
Plenty of times I'll show full bars on Verizon and it's so slow I can barely pull up email or basic web sites. Then I'll be somewhere else with 1-2 bars and it is blazing fast. What's annoying is it is very slow where I live, so I have to use my own wifi.
We were at a super crowded fair last Sunday, I had 3 bars most of the time but couldn't open anything. I think what's going on when this happens is that yes, you are connected but there's no bandwidth left. Calls would go through but there was a long delay.
I guess I expect it to be better when I’m in tech central
@Riser4 thats a flashback! I walked through that tunnel plenty when I lived in Harris 1995. And yes, UVM is only sorta a state school. I'm guessing its worse now?
I liked it a lot more living off campus at Pearl and Winooski kitty corner from the OP and deli. Those were good times.
You know what is a new trend n youth soccer in SLC that drives me up the wall? I've seen this 4 or 5 times now this season, (and not seen or heard it prior). Parents bringing big ass boom boxes to play music before the game, at halftime etc. Some fuckin dude rolled up and right after my daughters game ended he hit play and started pumping out cotton eyed Joe for everyone to hear at 9am. He stood around looking all proud of himself. Annoying as fuck.
Look-at-me behavior is the WORST
What kind of jackass would just pull up to a gate like this- with all that signage- park his car and walk away?
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Luckily he was nearby taking fall foliage pictures with his family by the lake so I got him to move pretty fast. They may have detected how annoyed I was.
Ppphhhttt.
It didn't actually SAY no parking now did it? :D
I confronted a pair of know-it-all youngsters parked like that with "NO PARKING UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, EMERGENCY ACCESS ONLY" signs, took photos and everything, they just laughed and said "OK Boomer", so I kicked their off-leash dog which was jumping all over some small children.
The most popular hiking trailhead in the Truckee area, clearly lined for head in parking with no parking elsewhere along the road on either side. 2 cars occupying 5 spaces, with the other dozen or so spaces filled.
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There actually is a no parking sign on the middle of the cable. Can’t see it in the pic.
Wait, and this was in AMERICA?Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
Why didn’t you just shoot them, like the rest of us would have?
Lol
I keep a valve core remover in the door pocket for times like this. Remove two. It really fucks their day up.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
At minimum, some dogshit under the door handles
I always have one as well.
Wanna really fuck their day up just a shade more? Remove two, and ream the valves out so you can’t thread in another core.
Remember, always put the valve cover back on!
I can’t even imagine pulling valve cores.
Dogshit handles is entertaining.
What about a grease pencil to scribble a message on the windows? Express your anger. Without really fucking up their car or travel.
Imagine coming back from an exhausting ride or hike and having two flats. That would suck. And they might not even get your message.
You could key their car with a nice Nantucket pinstripe. But again. They just think it’s vandals.
Use words. Either a note under the wiper that they are assholes. Or a grease pencil to make them suffer later to clean it off.
I came very close to writing "not a parking space" in mud on a windshield recently. My hands were already kinda muddy, and they had parked partially blocking a woods road that is both non motorized recreational trail and forestry road to an active woodlot. Aside from triggering my OCD about dumb tourist parking, the idiots weren't doing those of us who like that access point any favors, as the access up that woods road to public land is by grace of the owners, and I'm pretty sure there's no easement.Quote:
Originally Posted by Core Shot
I was kinda wishing the owners would need to get a skidder through, because I expect the car would've been in a different location afterwards.
Those people are the worst. At youth baseball you’ll occasionally get the dueling mothers with boomboxes just getting louder and louder, because little Jimmy needs a walkup song and the whole park needs to hear it.Quote:
Originally Posted by basinbeater
Walk-up songs are a lot of fun for the kids, and the music only lasts like 10-20 seconds so it's not that bad imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by alias_rice
What's annoying though, is a couple teams in our adult beer softball league have decided that it's more fun for everyone if they play 90's hip hop at full blast from their dugout for the entire game. It's probably my favourite genre of music but when my kids and other people's littler kids are hanging out and watching, is it really appropriate to hear Snoop and Dre discuss the merits of various 'bitches,' and whether or not they are 'shit' and 'lick on these nuts and suck the dicks?' Or to hear the great Notorious B.I.G. inform us that he does in fact have the 'leanest, meanest penis?' My heart says no.
Plus I like to hear the ump call balls and strikes in the outfield - but I understand that actually caring about beer league softball isn't cool so I don't say anything.
Walk up songs for little kids?!?! Dafuq? Hard no. That's 10-ply.
My kids aged out years ago so I don’t know if this has caught on here or not. Hopefully no. Our little league fields are clustered together really close to one another. It’s already a bit of a cacophony with half a dozen games happening at once so I imagine music would be too much.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
Since it was a Truckee trailhead there was an abundant supply of conveniently bagged dogshit available but I just put scraps of paper with "asshole" on them under the wipers and let it go at that.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcski