ShawnG said:In reply to Duke :
Nobody is doing their jobs in Canada then.
New Westminster is replacing an aging four lane bridge with a brand new four lane bridge.
Sometimes traffic planners do things for less than obvious reasons. Some years ago, a narrow bridge on a well traveled local road needed to be replaced. It was replaced... with another narrow bridge barely wide enough for two cars to pass.
Why? Well... the speed limit on the road is 35 mph. Keeping the bridge narrow forces drivers to slow down. At least that's my theory...
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bobzilla said:Toyman! said:Duke said:In reply to eastsideTim :
Depends on how hard it would be to source a very large parcel to build a new school on in the nearby area. A new high school can easily take 20 acres or more, and that's not always available in the right spot. Can't just tear the old school down and do without for 2-3 years while the new one is built. Depends on how historic or locally beloved it is, too.
Generally it's about like a bad car accident - if renovations would cost 60-70% of a new building, DOE recommends a new school if feasible.
Then they do a study to determine the size of the school, spend a few years arguing about its design and architecture, spend a few more years appropriating funds for it, and a few more years building it. Ten years later you have a nice new school. Only it was designed for the population ten years ago.
They do the same thing when it comes to roads and bridges.
Hamilton Southeastern is going through this right now. They even had parcels of land they had bought in appropriate locations before the area built up. They were prepared. Sorta. They opened the second high school and it was already at capacity.
EDIT : realized I forgot the important part
Ohio actually has a special fund just for that scenario. High school up the road was built for 1400 3 years ago and is already at 1800. They are adding 12 more classrooms I think without the local taxpayers having to foot the bill all by themselves.
NickD said:
I have been wondering for a while how the current excess features in auto design will be looked at in retrospect.
If all these fake diffusers, massive grilles that actually have tiny openings, false aero and whatnot will be seen as a "point in time" oddity similar to the 50's fin absurdity.
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In reply to Steve_Jones :
A coworker has a TJ he's been dumping money into for a while. Chasing his own tail trying to keep up with the Jones's. In the six or so months he's had it, it's been usable for a total of about two weeks. Anyway.
Jeep coworker has been really driving me up the wall lately. So today he's talking with another guy about something, and I hear him say "you know, you get what you pay for."
So I snap "Yeah, unless you're buying a Jeep, then you're just paying and getting nothing for it."
And I wish it was enough to have gotten him to stop talking to me for a couple days. No dice.
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Trent said:I have been wondering for a while how the current excess features in auto design will be looked at in retrospect.
If all these fake diffusers, massive grilles that actually have tiny openings, false aero and whatnot will be seen as a "point in time" oddity similar to the 50's fin absurdity.
You make a valid point. It's absurd. I'm hoping that we go the other way, much like Detroit abandoned bloated, lumpen shapes slathered in massive heaps of bright work around 1960 and suddenly started giving us some (not all) really beautifully proportioned, tastefully adorned cars for a few years, but I have my doubts. Maybe the new Prius will be a trendsetter.
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In reply to Steve_Jones :
Jeep's what?
ProDarwin said:Jeep's what?
Jeep is. Happiness comes from Jeep is.
When I am elected King, I shall impose an absolutely crippling tax for apostrophe abuse. Crippling, I tell you.
Nope. It was Bob.
DarkMonohue said:Trent said:I have been wondering for a while how the current excess features in auto design will be looked at in retrospect.
If all these fake diffusers, massive grilles that actually have tiny openings, false aero and whatnot will be seen as a "point in time" oddity similar to the 50's fin absurdity.
You make a valid point. It's absurd. I'm hoping that we go the other way, much like Detroit abandoned bloated, lumpen shapes slathered in massive heaps of bright work around 1960 and suddenly started giving us some (not all) really beautifully proportioned, tastefully adorned cars for a few years, but I have my doubts. Maybe the new Prius will be a trendsetter.
Meme unrelated.
It's ridiculous. 90s Pontiacs and the Z34 now blush with how naked and devoid of claptrappery they are.
As far as the hope for the future, have you seen BMW's new plan? It really is like they were Cadillac's fins with their goofy beaver face excess and are repentantly simplifying
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