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Hi Viatologists, To help make your viatology studies easier, the Worldwide Transportation Library (WWTL) is adding distance charts to highways it has photographed. This means you'll find a list of major relative cities along each highway criss-crossing the globe. All distances are listed in kilometres. As of 26-Nov-2009, the WWTL has added distance charts to 4.64% of its highway photographs. Intended for completion in 2011,...

On Nov 20, 7:18*am, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt...@yahoo.com> wrote:[color=blue] > Last time on rec.autos.driving, Ad absurdum per aspera > <jtch...@gmail.com> said: >[color=green] > >It's hard to say without the play-by-play reconstruction by the > >accident investigators, but the initial article, indirectly quoting a > >CHP officer, stated that...

In article <nasadowsk-F1305C.23124718112009@news.optonline.net>, Philip Nasadowski <nasadowsk@usermale.com> wrote:[color=blue] >In article <he1vei$qrh$1@news.eternal-september.org>, > Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> wrote: >[color=green] >> More precisely, intermodal freight cannot currently compete at distances >> under 700mi due to...

richard <member@newsguy.com> wrote in news:in5no9o7gqp.o5bucc91kpjv$.dlg@40tude.net: [color=blue] > > Personally, I find the postings a bit of an invasion of privacy thing. > Let's say I get charged with DUI on a Friday night. My boss finds the > posting on the website Monday morning and tells me I'm fired. So why > should that information be made public on the internet? If you want to...

SFB spewed: [color=blue] >HAHAHA. Naturally Lugar calls this an "accident" meaning it's nobody's >fault!!![/color] Is that what your mother said to your father just after you were born and just before he split? ;-) -- Speeders & Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS (a.k.a SFB) scores an own goal: "All drivers are idiots and psychopaths." --Speeders & Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS...

Last time on rec.autos.driving, Ad absurdum per aspera <jtchew1@gmail.com> said: [color=blue] >It's hard to say without the play-by-play reconstruction by the >accident investigators, but the initial article, indirectly quoting a >CHP officer, stated that they "swerved to avoid it." (As opposed to, >say, a gator flying up in your face so suddenly there's nothing to...

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:42:25 -0600, Tom Oska wrote: [color=blue] > There is a rural section of roadway that is a secondary route from several > small towns to interstate and major connectors. It extends for about 7 miles > and does carry heavy traffic during rush hours. Over the past 5 years there > have been 6 fatalities, 2@2 & 2@1, and innumerable injuries and fender > benders. It seems as if there...

On Nov 24, 12:41*pm, Stephen Sprunk <step...@sprunk.org> wrote: [color=blue] > Congress allocated that money as corporate welfare to contractors in > hopes that they'd use it to create (or at least maintain) highway > construction jobs.[/color] Jobs creation was a big factor that motivated Eisenhower to approve the Interstate Highway program. At that time the economy was softening and a jobs program...

[email]hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com[/email] wrote:[color=blue] > On Nov 24, 12:41 pm, Stephen Sprunk <step...@sprunk.org> wrote:[color=green] >> Congress allocated that money as corporate welfare to contractors in >> hopes that they'd use it to create (or at least maintain) highway >> construction jobs.[/color] > > Jobs creation was a big factor that motivated...

Deer can really make a mess out of a vehicle. Particularly if one drives at higher speeds. Sometimes you can't avoid them even if you're only doing 30 MPH. They can jump fast. Your reduced speed will lower the kinetic energy involved. People who drive a lot in deer country get those big sets of "Idaho Stop" bars installed on the front of trucks. They also work pretty well on deer and livestock. -- Paul Hovnanian...