From: The Chief Instigator on
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:56:27 -0500, US 71 <us71(a)cox.net> wrote:
>
> "larry_scholnick" <larry_scholnick(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:c2887ee2-abce-47cb-b28e-4aba89af496d(a)6g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>> You are driving along a freeway and you see a sign of the following
>> type:
>>
>> Destination
>> Next Exit (or Next Right)
>>
>> You take that next Exit/Right and then the exit splits - East vs.
>> West, North vs. South, or whatever - and there's no clue as to whether
>> the previously signed Destination is to Left or to the Right at the
>> split.
>>
>> Someone in the highway department should be shot, or at least forced
>> to stand out there directing hapless motorists which way to go to get
>> to the destination.
>
> NB I-59 @ US 98 in Hattiesburg, MS

It's not rocket science...northbounders on 59 can go east on 98 at Exit 59
northbound, or west on US 98 at Exit 65B. (It's on my short route between
here and my parents in Kentucky.)

--
Patrick L. "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (patrick(a)io.com) Houston, Texas
www.io.com/~patrick/aeros.php (TCI's 2009-10 Houston Aeros) AA#2273
LAST GAME: San Antonio 3, Houston 2 (April 11)
NEXT GAME: The 2010-11 opener, in October 2010
From: Brent on
On 2010-04-30, larry_scholnick <larry_scholnick(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> You are driving along a freeway and you see a sign of the following
> type:
>
> Destination
> Next Exit (or Next Right)
>
> You take that next Exit/Right and then the exit splits - East vs.
> West, North vs. South, or whatever - and there's no clue as to whether
> the previously signed Destination is to Left or to the Right at the
> split.
>
> Someone in the highway department should be shot, or at least forced
> to stand out there directing hapless motorists which way to go to get
> to the destination.

I can't tell if US directional interstate signage is just another case
of arrogant american political thinking where they believe that their
out of date way of doing things is the best in the world or if it's yet
another futile attempt to slow people down by intentionally making the
roads less safe.

Autobahn signage shows a little map to give drivers half a clue. It also
uses cities instead of often misleading compass directions. For
instance, in chicago N-S expressways are labeled E-W because they are
E-W across the whole country, but they don't resume their E-W course
until they are out of IL.

Autobahn signs are also clear and well before one has to make a
decision. I found them clearer and easier to follow and they are in a
language I don't know.


From: The Chief Instigator on
On Sat, 1 May 2010 01:06:03 +0000 (UTC), Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 2010-04-30, larry_scholnick <larry_scholnick(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>> You are driving along a freeway and you see a sign of the following
>> type:
>>
>> Destination
>> Next Exit (or Next Right)
>>
>> You take that next Exit/Right and then the exit splits - East vs.
>> West, North vs. South, or whatever - and there's no clue as to whether
>> the previously signed Destination is to Left or to the Right at the
>> split.
>>
>> Someone in the highway department should be shot, or at least forced
>> to stand out there directing hapless motorists which way to go to get
>> to the destination.
>
> I can't tell if US directional interstate signage is just another case
> of arrogant american political thinking where they believe that their
> out of date way of doing things is the best in the world or if it's yet
> another futile attempt to slow people down by intentionally making the
> roads less safe.
>
> Autobahn signage shows a little map to give drivers half a clue. It also
> uses cities instead of often misleading compass directions. For
> instance, in chicago N-S expressways are labeled E-W because they are
> E-W across the whole country, but they don't resume their E-W course
> until they are out of IL.
>
> Autobahn signs are also clear and well before one has to make a
> decision. I found them clearer and easier to follow and they are in a
> language I don't know.

Maybe you should get used to actually looking at maps. (I-20 heads south in
east Dallas and parallels I-30 - which used to be the DFW Turnpike until
1978 - until it wraps around southwest Fort Worth and then hops off I-820 to
end I-30 about five miles west.)

--
Patrick L. "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (patrick(a)io.com) Houston, Texas
www.io.com/~patrick/aeros.php (TCI's 2009-10 Houston Aeros) AA#2273
LAST GAME: San Antonio 3, Houston 2 (April 11)
NEXT GAME: The 2010-11 opener, in October 2010
From: Brent on
On 2010-05-01, The Chief Instigator <patrick(a)io.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 May 2010 01:06:03 +0000 (UTC), Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On 2010-04-30, larry_scholnick <larry_scholnick(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> You are driving along a freeway and you see a sign of the following
>>> type:
>>>
>>> Destination
>>> Next Exit (or Next Right)
>>>
>>> You take that next Exit/Right and then the exit splits - East vs.
>>> West, North vs. South, or whatever - and there's no clue as to whether
>>> the previously signed Destination is to Left or to the Right at the
>>> split.

>>> Someone in the highway department should be shot, or at least forced
>>> to stand out there directing hapless motorists which way to go to get
>>> to the destination.
>>
>> I can't tell if US directional interstate signage is just another case
>> of arrogant american political thinking where they believe that their
>> out of date way of doing things is the best in the world or if it's yet
>> another futile attempt to slow people down by intentionally making the
>> roads less safe.
>>
>> Autobahn signage shows a little map to give drivers half a clue. It also
>> uses cities instead of often misleading compass directions. For
>> instance, in chicago N-S expressways are labeled E-W because they are
>> E-W across the whole country, but they don't resume their E-W course
>> until they are out of IL.
>>
>> Autobahn signs are also clear and well before one has to make a
>> decision. I found them clearer and easier to follow and they are in a
>> language I don't know.

> Maybe you should get used to actually looking at maps.

Yeah, that's a typical american response to doing things a shitty way.
Make some assholish comment that the person who suggests that a better
way exists is somehow incompetent or lazy. Just because one can adapt to
a shitty system doesn't make the system less shitty.

> (I-20 heads south in
> east Dallas and parallels I-30 - which used to be the DFW Turnpike until
> 1978 - until it wraps around southwest Fort Worth and then hops off I-820 to
> end I-30 about five miles west.)

Why should I care about interstates in texas and their history?

From: The Chief Instigator on
On Sat, 1 May 2010 04:44:48 +0000 (UTC), Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 2010-05-01, The Chief Instigator <patrick(a)io.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 1 May 2010 01:06:03 +0000 (UTC), Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> On 2010-04-30, larry_scholnick <larry_scholnick(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> You are driving along a freeway and you see a sign of the following
>>>> type:
>>>>
>>>> Destination
>>>> Next Exit (or Next Right)
>>>>
>>>> You take that next Exit/Right and then the exit splits - East vs.
>>>> West, North vs. South, or whatever - and there's no clue as to whether
>>>> the previously signed Destination is to Left or to the Right at the
>>>> split.
>
>>>> Someone in the highway department should be shot, or at least forced
>>>> to stand out there directing hapless motorists which way to go to get
>>>> to the destination.
>>>
>>> I can't tell if US directional interstate signage is just another case
>>> of arrogant american political thinking where they believe that their
>>> out of date way of doing things is the best in the world or if it's yet
>>> another futile attempt to slow people down by intentionally making the
>>> roads less safe.
>>>
>>> Autobahn signage shows a little map to give drivers half a clue. It also
>>> uses cities instead of often misleading compass directions. For
>>> instance, in chicago N-S expressways are labeled E-W because they are
>>> E-W across the whole country, but they don't resume their E-W course
>>> until they are out of IL.
>>>
>>> Autobahn signs are also clear and well before one has to make a
>>> decision. I found them clearer and easier to follow and they are in a
>>> language I don't know.
>
>> Maybe you should get used to actually looking at maps.
>
> Yeah, that's a typical american response to doing things a shitty way.
> Make some assholish comment that the person who suggests that a better
> way exists is somehow incompetent or lazy. Just because one can adapt to
> a shitty system doesn't make the system less shitty.
>
>> (I-20 heads south in
>> east Dallas and parallels I-30 - which used to be the DFW Turnpike until
>> 1978 - until it wraps around southwest Fort Worth and then hops off I-820 to
>> end I-30 about five miles west.)
>
> Why should I care about interstates in texas and their history?

For all you know, you might wind up instate. I bother to learn my way
around the metropolitan areas in the state, of which there are a few. If
you have to go to any of the largest 20 in this state, it'd serve you to
learn your way. I've only been at that for 45 years, so far.

--
Patrick L. "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (patrick(a)io.com) Houston, Texas
www.io.com/~patrick/aeros.php (TCI's 2009-10 Houston Aeros) AA#2273
LAST GAME: San Antonio 3, Houston 2 (April 11)
NEXT GAME: The 2010-11 opener, in October 2010
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