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Article #4035Re: Traffic Flames
From: Marc Wiz
Date: Mon, 04 May 1992 21:05
Date: Mon, 04 May 1992 21:05
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In article <1992May4.170854.19481@oakhill.sps.mot.com> dong@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Don M. Gibson) writes: >mwiz@mpd.tandem.com (Marc Wiz) writes: > > >>The Pasadena freeway in Los Angeles has on-ramps even shorter than the >>ones described. And they have stop signs! Not to mention that the area >>where these short ramps are is rather twisty and curvy. This was supposedly >>the first freeway built in Los Angeles and the engineers learned a lot >>from it. > > >i'll the "suicide" ramps of the pasadena fwy (the 110) over those of >the lower deck any day!! sure, you have to go from a stop, but they >aren't blind, the entrance ramps are longer, and people don't drive >in the right lane, unless traffic is slow. (three lanes) i am >scared to enter the lower deck, and i have a mustang 5.0!! >worst design i have ever seen. The entrance ramps are longer on the 110? I think they're just as short. But you're right they are not blind. > >also, why are the fwy interchanges so sprawling? the mopac/183 >interchange must cover 20 square miles. I don't see why they needed to make the Mopac/183 interchange so large. And look at what's being done on the south end of Mopac. The first time my wife and I saw the Mopac/183 interchange we were very surprised based on what we had seen of the Austin freeway system in the past hour. I know I'm going to regret typing this but why couldn't we have had a smaller interchange and left some of the quaintness that Austin is known for? -- Marc Wiz Yes that really is my last name. MaBell: (512)244-8780 Internet: mwiz@mpd.tandem.com The views expressed are my own. Mine all mine!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: ffea8,4ba7421aeab0a5a9 X-Google-Attributes: gidffea8,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-05-04 14:05:20 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nntp1.radiomail.net!apple!cs.utexas.edu!devnull!mwiz From: mwiz@mpd.tandem.com (Marc Wiz) Newsgroups: austin.talk Subject: Re: Traffic Flames Message-ID: <1698@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> Date: 4 May 92 21:05:20 GMT References: <71463@ut-emx.uucp> <1695@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> <1992May4.170854.19481@oakhill.sps.mot.com> Sender: news@devnull.mpd.tandem.com Distribution: austin Organization: Do you really want to know? Lines: 41