RE: 37,423...33,843...32,999...32,479...33,561 also poi... - 8/31/2014 3:08:57 PM
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joether
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ORIGINAL: MercTech Call all the bullshit you want. The original spec called for 95 and it was watered down to 70 as a minimum for safe rural speeds by congressional compromise. The speed limit on I-64, back in 1973, going from Norfolk to Richmond was 95mph. Been there, drove that. From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_standards quote:
Minimum design speed: In rural areas, a minimum design speed of 70 mph (115 km/h) should be used, with 50–60 mph (80–95 km/h) acceptable in rolling terrain, and as low as 50 mph (80 km/h) allowed in mountainous and urban areas.[1] Speed limits as low as 40 mph (65 km/h) are, however, occasionally encountered and generally assigned to pre-existing freeways that were grandfathered into the system.[citation needed] There's a few things wrong with your 'viewpoint': A ) Go read the PDF your 'talking point' comes from. Its 89.14MB big. Is quite a read, I'll give it that. It also shows what happens when a massive amount of research and information is 'dumbed down'; the good, essential, concepts loose their understanding as both it and the evidence supporting it are striped away leaving just a 'buzz words' or 'catch phrases'. B ) You are aware that it is 2014, and NOT, 1973, right? That would mean traffic patterns could very well be different. In my area, the traffic patterns have forced entire lengths of roads to be remade with the newest knowledge. Not just a few hundred feet, but miles and through several communities if not towns! The old fashion 'country road' on main roads is a thing of the past in 2014. C ) What is the last two words of that quote above? I 'wonder' what that means..... quote:
ORIGINAL: MercTech http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/programadmin/interstate.cfm Tell me that you actually...CHECKED THE DATES...on this one? According to that link, there are 46, 726 miles of roads in America. For 2002. Is it 2002 right now? Your information is....WAY OUT OF DATE! quote:
ORIGINAL: MercTech As to using a government office to propagate a political agenda I refer to Joan Claybrook's attemppts to force state governments into conforming to her idea as how things should be run by withholding NHTSA funds from states that did not toe the line she set on legal policies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Claybrook One of the more hilarious things she publicly stated was that all motorcycles should be required to have seat belts. An yet, I could post a few thousand stupid things Republicans and Tea Partiers have done and stated; would that mean you instantly are against them for stating something stupid? Hell, everything out of Sarah Palin's mouth is stupid! An "...using a government office to propagate a political agenda..."? Funny how your not at more serious odds with the former Bush administration. Or the Republican/Tea Party during the partial shutdown of the federal government in 2013. You have big issues with some lesser 'nobody', and no issues with individuals that did bad things to the nation.... quote:
ORIGINAL: MercTech And, I never ever mentioned a textbook but what a cheeky teen told me that he had been taught in driver's education when I had him out on a learner's permit trying to teach parallel parking. And, with queries to some oh his friends it was apparent the kids were taught that no speed about 55mph was safe. Its been shown one saves on gas at lower speeds that higher ones. As surviving an accident is more likely at 30 mph, then 90 mph. We know this through science (physics and chemistry come to mind). You know, the stuff you don't even know exists. quote:
ORIGINAL: MercTech I shan't mention what difference the sun rises at without citing references in the future. Yeah, you know...NOTHING...about what science understands. Its been proved a long time ago, that the Earth is not the center of the universe. That the planet spins on an axis, and that light can not bend around corners unless by other means. Meaning when the place you are located on, turns away from the source of sunlight, it gets dark, right? But that you can see the moon's surface when its dark outside, is because the moon has a 'line of sight' to the sun, to which you don't at the time. Its an old fashion expression that 'the sun rises from the east and sets in the west'. Since such concepts as 'north, south, east, and west' only apply when one is on a planet. In outer space, establishing a point in a universe that is continuously expanding is not as easy as one would think,.
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