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post #1 of 15
6/17/08 at 8:01pm
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Fuck you.
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post #2 of 15
6/18/08 at 8:40am
Have they finally turned them on? I've seen them on 400 for like a year, and they've never even taken the cover off them.
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post #3 of 15
6/18/08 at 11:36am
According to the research I read when I was writing about traffic, metered highway entrances actually do help reduce traffic snarls if designed properly. So while you might curse them now, they do have the potential to cut down your commute, assuming Atlanta actually used the right approach (big assumption, I know).
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post #4 of 15
6/18/08 at 11:45am
Is Atlanta unable to yeild?


Hey, that signs like a question out of the civil war...
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post #5 of 15
6/18/08 at 12:33pm
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Originally Posted by Martianman View Post
Have they finally turned them on?
They were on yesterday afternoon, Dunwoody area.

If you thought the road next to the interstate were bad during rush hour...
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post #6 of 15
6/18/08 at 12:34pm
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Is Atlanta unable to yeild?


Hey, that signs like a question out of the civil war...
If not, this man will certainly make them yield:

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post #7 of 15
6/18/08 at 1:33pm
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They were on yesterday afternoon, Dunwoody area.

If you thought the road next to the interstate were bad during rush hour...
Yeah, that's part of the problem of designing a proper metered highway approach. You have to take into account surface street traffic patterns. Just looking at traffic snarls on highways isn't enough.
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post #8 of 15
6/19/08 at 2:15am
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Is Atlanta unable to yeild?
No, people in Atlanta don’t know how to yield or merge. Yielding means you actually have to look at the traffic around you and figure out who has the right of way. That's pretty tough when on your cell phone with the radio cranked up to seismic levels. The typical merging technique used here is to get on the ramp and follow the white line on your right until it ends. At that point you are on the freeway. It doesn’t matter if there happens to be a Kenworth there too, that’s when you get on. There is no need for turn signals or mirrors when that process is used.
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post #9 of 15
6/19/08 at 8:57am
It's the two extremes--either people follow the white line all the way to the end before even thinking about merging, or as soon as there's no grass or wall in the way, they sling their vehicle 3 lanes over.
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post #10 of 15
6/19/08 at 1:21pm
Yeah, and if the cops catch you entering the highway before the dotted line starts, you get pulled over for "crossing the gore." My wife got a ticket for that once, but she was convinced the cop had pulled her over for "flying over the gorge." Which would have been WAY cooler in a Dukes of Hazzard kind of way.
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post #11 of 15
6/19/08 at 1:25pm
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Welcome to the Atlanta, where every ass hat with a sporty car thinks the interstate is their own personal Nascar.
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post #12 of 15
6/19/08 at 1:49pm
The light at Mansell (Formula 400 south) has been sitting there, covered, for two years. Glad to finally know what it's purpose may someday be.

One morning, a year ago I think, I saw the illustrious Will Mason at the aforementioned on-ramp. Alas, he did not see me...or didn't care to acknowledge my enthusiastic hand gestures.
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post #13 of 15
6/22/08 at 11:03am
Don't be mad at Will. He was just giving himself a few enthusiastic hand gestures down low. He'd just finished watching 'The Crew' and was feeling frisky.
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post #14 of 15
6/22/08 at 11:24am
D'oh, sorry Rob. No intentional slight, I assure you.

Dennis, it wasn't The Crew I had watched. It was Ladies in Lavender.
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post #15 of 15
6/22/08 at 4:18pm
I agree with billy's original sentiment but I have one thing to ask. I grew up in Atlanta.

Moved away in 2001 at the age of 25.

It took me three years before returning to see family scared me as I got close to 285 on 20.

What I have never been able to understand about Atlanta drivers, and the problem seems to be getting worse since I left, is that in the left hand lane flashing your brights at the person in front of you barely doing 70 somehow automatically triggers their brakes.

Is Atlanta a testing ground nowadays for some sort of Bluetooth braking system I haven't heard about?
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