Guess what an idiot with a steering wheel did this time

[jersey cubs fan]

I really miss being able to walk to work. Or to have better public transportation options.

Just griping because the already nightmarish traffic here has been made worse on two of the main routes I use by neverending construction to, of horsefeathering course, expand the roads. That never horsefeathering works! More lanes just means more traffic.

horsefeathers cars. horsefeathers driving. Most of our living spaces are designed horribly with nothing but driving in mind.

GET ME OUT OF HERE.

full disclosure: Im not a big "gahhhhh car culture makes me pee myself guy." as much as i realize it's a very real issue that needs resolved, i also know that 99.9 percent of us can't do anything about it and are at the whims of car culture. Yeah, it sucks that we have so much of our cities paved into parking lots, unfortunately for me, i have no choice but to utilize them. Sorry libs! (the viral twitter video today is a perfect example of my problems with anti-car guys but nevertheless)

that being said: the "just add a lane" thing is SO FRUSTRATING. Tulsa is set up very North-South (named streets) and east-west (numbered streets.) We have one particularly bad stretch of a named street that gets overloaded at rush hour because it sits in between two highway on-off ramps.

We were doing our big capital package in 2016 or so and the city councilor for that area pitched and got approved for an extremely lengthy construction project to add a lane each way to that section of road. Every councilor and the mayor were super excited about it. Only one councilor was like "hey guys, here's 10000000 studies that show this only makes the problem worse."

Anyway, millions dumped into that road, traffic issues - worse than ever! But im sure if we add one more lane it will be fine.

Just started reading Boom Town, about OKC and it starts out heavy on the car related infrastructure.

[Sammy Sofa]

The part that especially drives me nuts here is that on both of these expansion projects, all of the barricades have turned what were pretty straight roads into twisty nightmares, and god help you if it rains because then what few painted lines are visible basically disappear, so the two lanes we're all squeezing through effectively turns into one since everyone is drifting all over the horsefeathering place.

Meanwhile if I wanna walk or bike or walk somewhere that's even just a few miles away, you gotta map that horsefeathers ahead of time since odds are there will be huge stretches of roads with no horsefeathering sidewalks or paths or trails at all.

Chicago is a mess in a ton of ways, but I really horsefeathering miss that I lived there damn near a decade without even driving a car, much less owning one.

oh god we have another north-south stretch closer to downtown that they are doing a widening project on and they not only have turned it into a winding death trap with smaller than usual lanes already, they also haven't painted any markers to tell you where the lanes actually are. really fun to drive next to some 90,000 pound ford f-950 pickup on that stretch of road.

It's bonkers; 66 and 7 are the ones I have to deal with around here, and some stretches it's like we're just toy cars in some kind of death trap track setup by the serial killer kid from Toy Story.

And nevermind if you have to get in and out of DC, with its tiny narrow bridges (that inevitably always have sections, not lanes, sections closed down because they're horsefeathering falling apart) and historic winding narrow highways that were mapped when people horsefeathering RODE HORSES. The George Washington Parkway would be beautiful if it was this scenic out of the way thing, but instead is one of THE major arteries, and it can be shut down by puddles that are just big enough or a single fallen branches, which then ripples out to turning 495 (which gridlocks every damn day despite being multiple lanes because they inexplicably designed it with multiple bends and turns that force to to slow down 20-30 MPH) in and out of Maryland into a nightmare.

[Sammy Sofa]

Some real GTA horsefeathers:

[Sammy Sofa]

"Hey. Do you like drinking things? Well about drinking things....REALLY INCOVENIENTLY. BOOM, DISRUPTED."

[Sammy Sofa]

[Sammy Sofa]

horsefeathers' PREACH:

[Derwood]

horsefeathers' PREACH:

If I drove home at night (30 miles on I-70), I have to flip my mirror because literally every semi truck is an insane hazard with their 500,000 lumen headlights

[Sammy Sofa]

I long for the days when it was just an issue with a semi-truck getting behind you; as a sedan driver, it feels like basically any vehicle higher than mine is now equipped with eye-melting lights.

And, horsefeathers, the newer sedans are, too; that's just easier to ignore (unless you're a pedestrian).

[Derwood]

I have people flash their lights at me thinking my high beams are on. My headlights are pretty evil

[Sammy Sofa]

[Brian707]

I have people flash their lights at me thinking my high beams are on. My headlights are pretty evil

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Applicable to both threads

[Sammy Sofa]

Dude rattles that off like it's been happening his whole horsefeathering life.

[Sammy Sofa]

Good to see Elon making time for his classic vehicular grifts, too:

https://jalopnik.com/we-still-dont-know ... 1849846079

Tesla has finally delivered an actual real-life Semi to a customer, but there’s just one problem. And no, it isn’t the fact that it’s three years late. We still do not know horsefeathers about it. Despite the fact that CEO Elon Musk unveiled the first production Semi to PepsiCo on Thursday, he didn’t offer up any additional details on things like the truck’s price, how many Tesla would produce, how much it weighed, the Autopilot technology on board, or how much cargo it can haul.

Instead, it would seem that Musk just offered up lame platitudes about the truck. Reuters reports that the CEO said the Semi would reduce highway emissions and outperform existing diesel trucks on both power and safety. He added that the fast-charging tech found in the Semi would make its way into the Cybertruck… whenever that gets made.

[Sammy Sofa]

[Banedon]

The driver:

[Sammy Sofa]

[MWV]

Acknowledging that the project has become a black hole.

[Tim]

The copy is supposed to read "towards" the near infinite mass using its gravity assist.

[javy knows my name]

Acknowledging that the project has become a black hole.

This is a near-perfect combination of high-brow commentary and dad joke

[Banedon]

[Sammy Sofa]

[Sammy Sofa]

I've actually started putting on my prescription sunglasses when I'm driving at night because of these horsefeathering eye-melting nightmares.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

It's funny that there was some rule from like the 60s or so that's holding the industry back from having "smart" headlights. It could have been here a long ass time ago.

[CubinNY]

It's funny that there was some rule from like the 60s or so that's holding the industry back from having "smart" headlights. It could have been here a long ass time ago.

I have automatic dimming headlights on my Subaru Accent. As an aside, I recommend that car highly. It’s not flashy but has all the bells and whistles as my old XC90 at half the price. I wish they would come out with an all electric version.