Government's Compassion For People

[Revoltingest]

There are lines on roads telling you where you may & mustn't drive.
The "no no" areas can be made obvious with rumble strips to alert
the driver without damage. In Atlanta, government decided this
wasn't good enuf. There had to be damage. And perhaps death
to motorcyclists. That'll teach'm, eh.
So they put tire shredding spikey protrusions in the road surface.

How soon will the anti-capitalists arrive with whataboutism?

 

[Pogo]

There are lines on roads telling you where you may & mustn't drive.
The "no no" areas can be made obvious with rumble strips to alert
the driver without damage. In Atlanta, government decided this
wasn't good enuf. There had to be damage. And perhaps death
to motorcyclists. That'll teach'm, eh.
So they put tire shredding spikey protrusions in the road surface.

How soon will the anti-capitalists arrive with whataboutism?

That is just plain a road hazard, anyone who leaves that deliberately in a road is liable for damages. Standard treatment I've seen is orange sand filled barrels to warn you and absorb impact if you can't avoid it. Some really dumb people in the hi-way department down there.

 

[Revoltingest]

That is just plain a road hazard, anyone who leaves that deliberately in a road is liable for damages.

So far, authorities are claiming otherwise.
I hope that eventually a court spanks them
for creating needless danger.

Standard treatment I've seen is orange sand filled barrels to warn you and absorb impact if you can't avoid it. Some really dumb people in the hi-way department down there.

Not just dumb....mean.

 

[Balthazzar]

It's a hard one ... Those rumble strips are a whole lot more forgiving that the metal strip appears to be. There are so many road hazards on our highways, that it's impossible to deny a need for something more in effort to prevent a needless and ongoing flow of damages. Whether the strip will accomplish this is yet to be seen. It does appear to be dangerous to merge into that area. I wonder what motivated the inclusion of something like that. I must admit, the strip seems severe, but I'm unaware of why it was decided something like it was needed.

 

[Estro Felino]

I understand that male drivers (I love this sexist comment) cannot renounce incredible speed...as if they were in Indianapolis...
however I understand the Atlanda government perfectly.

PS. It's Europeans who invented motorway, the safest road ever.

 

[Revoltingest]

It's a hard one ... Those rumble strips are a whole lot more forgiving that the metal strip appears to be. There are so many road hazards on our highways, that it's impossible to deny a need for something more in effort to prevent a needless and ongoing flow of damages. Whether the strip will accomplish this is yet to be seen. It does appear to be dangerous to merge into that area. I wonder what motivated the inclusion of something like that. I must admit, the strip seems severe, but I'm unaware of why it was decided something like it was needed.

Gore sections are not to be used, however they're
often important when avoiding an accident from
someone's improper lane change, or when suffering
a tire blowout. Why cause major damage, or potentially
another accident by wrecking a car's tires & wheels, eh.

 

[Revoltingest]

I understand that male drivers (I love this sexist comment) cannot renounce incredible speed...as if they were in Indianapolis...
however I understand the Atlanda government perfectly.

PS. It's Europeans who invented motorway, the safest road ever.

Sexist & irrelevant.

 

[Pogo]

It's a hard one ... Those rumble strips are a whole lot more forgiving that the metal strip appears to be. There are so many road hazards on our highways, that it's impossible to deny a need for something more in effort to prevent a needless and ongoing flow of damages. Whether the strip will accomplish this is yet to be seen. It does appear to be dangerous to merge into that area. I wonder what motivated the inclusion of something like that. I must admit, the strip seems severe, but I'm unaware of why it was decided something like it was needed.

The standard solution.

The Atlanta Solution.

 

[Copernicus]

The reporter mentioned that the obstacles may originally have been put there in order to secure a sign, but the sign wasn't actually installed. So they just left the prongs there without doing anything to alert drivers to the danger. It would have been easy to install something over the prongs to keep drivers from hitting them. I suspect that they had something in place while the cement was drying so as not to have someone mess up their work. As it stands, it looks like they were put there on purpose to cause serious damage and possibly bodily injury. Of course, the bureaucrats, upon learning that something stupid was done, will spare no effort to justify it and act like it is anybody else's fault. They feel powerless to do anything about the stupidity of what was done, but their main job is to justify it, even when it is obviously unjustifiable.

The driver should be able to sue the government for malicious incompetence.

 

[Revoltingest]

The reporter mentioned that the obstacles may originally have been put there in order to secure a sign, but the sign wasn't actually installed. So they just left the prongs there without doing anything to alert drivers to the danger. It would have been easy to install something over the prongs to keep drivers from hitting them. I suspect that they had something in place while the cement was drying so as not to have someone mess up their work. As it stands, it looks like they were put there on purpose to cause serious damage and possibly bodily injury. Of course, the bureaucrats, upon learning that something stupid was done, will spare no effort to justify it and act like it is anybody else's fault. They feel powerless to do anything about the stupidity of what was done, but their main job is to justify it, even when it is obviously unjustifiable.

The driver should be able to sue the government for malicious incompetence.

The driver wasn't the first to have his car wrecked.
Government justified the installation.
The shape & location of them wasn't consistent
with signage....which isn't ever put in gores.

 

[tytlyf]

I'm surprised the lines aren't yellow, which usually indicates stricter road laws compared to white lines

 

[Revoltingest]

I'm surprised the lines aren't yellow, which usually indicates stricter road laws compared to white lines

I do a lot of driving.
White is typical for gores & fog lines.

 

[Pogo]

I'm surprised the lines aren't yellow, which usually indicates stricter road laws compared to white lines

Yellow lines indicate oncoming traffic

 

[Estro Felino]

There are lines on roads telling you where you may & mustn't drive.
The "no no" areas can be made obvious with rumble strips to alert
the driver without damage. In Atlanta, government decided this
wasn't good enuf. There had to be damage. And perhaps death
to motorcyclists. That'll teach'm, eh.
So they put tire shredding spikey protrusions in the road surface.

How soon will the anti-capitalists arrive with whataboutism?

Those roads looks like Indianapolis circuit.
I mean...the perfect speed limit is 20 miles per hour...since they are not F1 drivers.

 

[Viker]

I understand that male drivers (I love this sexist comment) cannot renounce incredible speed...as if they were in Indianapolis...
however I understand the Atlanda government perfectly.

PS. It's Europeans who invented motorway, the safest road ever.

2023 figures show stalling progress in reducing road fatalities in too many countries.

 

[Revoltingest]

Those roads looks like Indianapolis circuit.
I mean...the perfect speed limit is 20 miles per hour...since they are not F1 drivers.

What a stupid post.

 

[Heyo]

How soon will the anti-capitalists arrive with whataboutism?

Whatabout this story of government stupidity has anything to do with anti-capitalism?

 

[The Hammer]

What a stupid post.

I really wish we had a WTF frugal.

 

[Valjean]

Only a matter of time before someone hits one of them, looses control, and causes a serious accident.

 

[Revoltingest]

Whatabout this story of government stupidity has anything to do with anti-capitalism?

Capitalism is the cause of all woe per them.
But they've been oddly absent from this thread.