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Message 1589146 - Posted: 20 Oct 2014, 4:33:38 UTC - in response to Message 1589067.  

Need the right equipment for snow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv1QXCVq_zE

But that IS a rotary snow plow... Just buried to the top of the cab...

When you have to build snow sheds on the line because rotary plows can't clear it ...
http://www.donnersummithistoricalsociety.org/pages/exhibits/snowsheds.html
Donner Summit gets 35-40 feet of snow a year and sometimes 60 or 70 feet.

Not so much now that we are in a drought ..... but you snow birds consider, you are on the seventh story and the window looks out into the side of the snow.
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Message 1590930 - Posted: 23 Oct 2014, 19:59:00 UTC

If it wasn't so serious one would cry with laughter. I thought the aim is to provide better public transport thereby causing less congestion & accidents on the road?

Buses get parking tickets - for stopping at a Bus Stop
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Message 1590941 - Posted: 23 Oct 2014, 20:17:13 UTC - in response to Message 1590930.  

If it wasn't so serious one would cry with laughter. I thought the aim is to provide better public transport thereby causing less congestion & accidents on the road?

Buses get parking tickets - for stopping at a Bus Stop

Sounds like they need to find a compromise, like maybe 5 or 10 minutes, and if the bus gets a ticket for staying longer than that because the new driver is late, he/she pays the fine.
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Message 1591075 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 0:39:01 UTC - in response to Message 1590960.  

Sorry Guv, I ran out of cement

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Message 1591076 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 0:39:22 UTC - in response to Message 1590960.  

Sorry Guv, I ran out of cement

The poor driver probably has to dive into the barrel and chisel out any set concrete.


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Message 1591219 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 6:21:39 UTC - in response to Message 1591075.  

Sorry Guv, I ran out of cement

I hate web pages that play video ads without asking me, especially with sound and especially more than one of them.

You should try an Ad-blocker, I get no ads on most sites, video or otherwise.
none on that page.
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Message 1592437 - Posted: 26 Oct 2014, 14:23:22 UTC - in response to Message 1592407.  

No one was arrested? The Bulgarian driver should have been for not securing his vehicle.

Rolling backwards? I learnt that years ago while doing my driver training in Folkestone. When parked on a downward slope, never rely on your handbrake/air brakes alone, leave it in reverse & in 1st gear if on an upward slope.
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Message 1592978 - Posted: 27 Oct 2014, 15:23:15 UTC

Man runs over his own head

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Message 1592995 - Posted: 27 Oct 2014, 16:30:49 UTC - in response to Message 1592978.  

Man runs over his own head

Another reason to give up



Oh my... Will think twice now before lighting a cigarette in the car...
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Message 1593010 - Posted: 27 Oct 2014, 17:18:54 UTC - in response to Message 1592978.  

Now that has to be to No 1 Candidate for an "attempted" Darwin award. There is Stupid & then there is...
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Message 1593626 - Posted: 29 Oct 2014, 1:22:55 UTC

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Message 1593901 - Posted: 29 Oct 2014, 17:36:45 UTC

WATCH: 'Stupid' driver who filmed his own police chase is jailed

A driver filmed himself being chased at high speed by police through residential streets before telling arresting officers ‘It was a good chase wasn’t it?’

Salim Shah drove up to 60mph on roads through Accrington and Great Harwood, causing other cars to swerve out the way and led police at high speeds down alleyways and ‘blind turns’.

He later dumped the car and was found hiding in the undergrowth of a nearby park, Burnley Crown Court heard.Officers also found a video he had recorded of himself on his mobile phone in the last 30 seconds of the chase in which he says ‘this is the best isn’t it?’
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Message 1594910 - Posted: 31 Oct 2014, 14:31:38 UTC - in response to Message 1594819.  

I can't be bothered to comment ...

Traffic lights

Sounds to me like the Labour are politicizing it by ignoring the part where the proposal says each intersection would be studied to see if this plan would be safe. Still, I agree with them.
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Message 1594986 - Posted: 31 Oct 2014, 17:24:42 UTC - in response to Message 1594910.  
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I can't be bothered to comment ...

Traffic lights

Sounds to me like the Labour are politicizing it by ignoring the part where the proposal says each intersection would be studied to see if this plan would be safe. Still, I agree with them.

Well, after the earthquake the signals will be out, better get some practice in treating them like four way stops .......

Oh, I assume by now they are all LED, so they could cut them to half bright in those very dark low traffic hours. Or use the in road sensors to only turn them on when a vehicle is approaching. Oh those push here to cross buttons that don't do anything might have to actually do something as well.
<ed>In a lot of the US, the signals go four way flashing red at night, so you don't have to wait a full minute for the signal to change.
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Message 1595103 - Posted: 31 Oct 2014, 20:44:10 UTC

There are two savings, one is the cost of running the lights, this cost is very quantifiable as a direct cost on the whole of society - we all pay a little bit for the energy and maintenance of evry set of lights.
The other is the cost of fuel burnt while sitting at a red light when nothing is passing through the junction. The four-way stop (and "right on red") both help in this respect. This saving is less easy to quantify as it is a cost on the vehicle operator.
I can think of one set of lights where it would be a saving for the motorist with a very small risk factor (indeed its a set that is regularly jumped as it is so badly phased, indeed turning this set off might be a safety improvement, as folks would expect oncoming traffic....)
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Message 1595152 - Posted: 31 Oct 2014, 21:49:41 UTC

Something seriously wrong with this report...

Aircraft returns to Gatwick after part of wing falls off

...over Belguim when it was reported? Why not land the thing ASAP? Why return to Gatwick?
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Message 1595175 - Posted: 31 Oct 2014, 22:21:39 UTC - in response to Message 1595152.  

Something seriously wrong with this report...

Aircraft returns to Gatwick after part of wing falls off

...over Belguim when it was reported? Why not land the thing ASAP? Why return to Gatwick?

Because no part of the wing fell off. Buried deep it called it an "over wing slide" That would be a part of the emergency escape slide for the door over the wing. Mind you headline writers are required to get it wrong to increase circulation.
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Message 1595180 - Posted: 31 Oct 2014, 22:25:34 UTC - in response to Message 1595175.  

Something seriously wrong with this report...

Aircraft returns to Gatwick after part of wing falls off

...over Belguim when it was reported? Why not land the thing ASAP? Why return to Gatwick?

Because no part of the wing fell off. Buried deep it called it an "over wing slide" That would be a part of the emergency escape slide for the door over the wing. Mind you headline writers are required to get it wrong to increase circulation.

That may be true, but with the MH17 & MH370 incidents, shouldn't it be a matter of priority to get the plane on the ground asap, after all, better safe than sorry!
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Message 1595282 - Posted: 1 Nov 2014, 0:23:20 UTC - in response to Message 1594819.  

I can't be bothered to comment ...

Traffic lights

Perhaps if they didn't have a set of traffic lights every ten yards it wouldn't cost so much.

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