Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

[Auspice]

@silverfox said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

There is a roundabout that has three 'out/in' parts in front of my apartment complex. One road leads to a little offshoot that connects to the main city roads. One splits off to a little-used road with parking for half-filled office buildings. The third leads to my fairly large apartment complex. When you enter the complex from the city roads you nave to go all around the circle before exiting to the complex.

ROUTINELY though, people go the WRONG WAY in the roundabout just to skip a few seconds of going the right way.

It pisses me off because it's just an accident waiting to happen.

DON'T DRIVE THE WRONG WAY. It took all my power to not park next to this idiot and yell at him.

Unfortunately, your average American is approximately 10 times worse at using a roundabout than they are at 4-way stops (we've all experienced THAT GUY who thinks because the person in front of him went, he gets to go, too).

I dread roundabouts because I know someone is gonna go the wrong way or they're gonna cut across lanes (if it's one of the bigger, multi-lane ones: Austin has a few) or they're gonna cut people off because they don't know how merging works.

[eye8urcake]

@Auspice Roundabouts stress me the fuck out even as a passenger.

[Tinuviel]

@eye8urcake

Five small roundabouts feed a larger roundabout that exits through one of the five small roundabouts again.

[Ominous]

@Tinuviel

Is that the Magic Roundabout in Swinton or Swindon or something, England?

[eye8urcake]

@Tinuviel I would never leave my house if I had to go through that to do so

Anxiety-inducement aside, it's very pretty in a weird way.

[Tinuviel]

@eye8urcake It's definitely one of those things that I look at and think 'some designers and engineers lost sleep over this design.'

[eye8urcake]

@Tinuviel I kind of want to build one in Cities: Skylines.

[surreality]

...nobody show that image to any civil engineers from New Jersey, or we're really in for some shit.

ETA: For those unfamiliar, it is the land of traffic circles, jughandles, and cloverleafs. 'Traffic circle' is the mid-atlantic US way of saying 'roundabout'.

ETA2: Put it this way, they would rather send you in a half mile loop over state lines and back again than let you just make a left turn.

[Auspice]

@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

...nobody show that image to any civil engineers from New Jersey, or we're really in for some shit.

ETA: For those unfamiliar, it is the land of traffic circles, jughandles, and cloverleafs. 'Traffic circle' is the mid-atlantic US way of saying 'roundabout'.

ETA2: Put it this way, they would rather send you in a half mile loop over state lines and back again than let you just make a left turn.

That is because Jersey is hell and Delaware took all of the East Coast's detour signs.

[surreality]

@Auspice Truth, we totally did. Do you have any idea how much of a pain in the ass it is for us to have to dedicate parts of our garages to those signs? Our property taxes are so low because of that commandeering of garage space.

In all fairness, in recent years we turned a perfectly sensible traditional intersection with this traffic circle/cloverleaf hell hybrid that really will send you inescapably several miles before you can turn/correct in any of six or seven directions. New Jersey is contagious and all the chemical companies (it's right near DuPont's ancient powder mill and Astra Zeneca, just to name a few) mutate that shit into true WTFery.

[Ominous]

@eye8urcake

It has been. It's how I knew what it was when I saw it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz4TZh76QKc

[Auspice]

@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Do you have any idea how much of a pain in the ass it is for us to have to dedicate parts of our garages to those signs? Our property taxes are so low because of that commandeering of garage space.

Somewhere in... 2003? Perhaps early 2004, I was visiting the guy I was dating in Delaware and there'd been massive, massive rain storms. The road I took in (and mind you, this is pre-GPS and I'd plotted my trips using physical maps to avoid the Baltimore I-95 toll) was flooded out. I saw a detour sign.

I had that sinking sense of dread of being sent off on a terrible path that I'd be unlikely to recover from.

But then another Detour sign.
And another.
And so on until I was perfectly led around the washed out road.

MD, OH, SC... all just give you a single Detour sign that may as well be a 'don't fucking go this way' because you never see another one.

ergo, Delaware has them all.

[surreality]

@Auspice Sometimes I have to wonder if states handle detour signs like they do senators: every state gets X many, and we're just smol.

[Auspice]

@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice Sometimes I have to wonder if states handle detour signs like they do senators: every state gets X many, and we're just smol.

I'm sticking with my headcanon that Delaware steals them from other states

[surreality]

@Auspice The latter half of 2019 was an insane road construction period for Delaware. Like, deeply insane. You could not go anywhere without seeing at least two of them, or a signal crew to let people through since one lane would be closed.

...maybe they're breeding.

[Ominous]

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

MD, OH, SC... all just give you a single Detour sign that may as well be a 'don't fucking go this way' because you never see another one.

Ohio works like this - when you follow a detour sign, stay on whatever route or road it has told you to take until another detour sign says otherwise. So make sure to note whatever state route number or county road name the detour sign is having you take, because that's the one you need to stick to until otherwise notified. You might reach a fork in the road, but you won't be given a detour sign telling you which to take, because it is assumed you are sticking to the route number or county road you were told to follow to begin with. It might be 50 miles later, but you will eventually see another detour sign that alerts you that you have been reconnected with the route or road you were originally on.

[Auspice]

@Ominous said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

MD, OH, SC... all just give you a single Detour sign that may as well be a 'don't fucking go this way' because you never see another one.

Ohio works like this - when you follow a detour sign, stay on whatever route or road it has told you to take until another detour sign says otherwise. So make sure to note whatever state route number or county road name the detour sign is having you take, because that's the one you need to stick to until otherwise notified. You might reach a fork in the road, but you won't be given a detour sign telling you which to take, because it is assumed you are sticking to the route number or county road you were told to follow to begin with. It might be 50 miles later, but you will eventually see another detour sign that alerts you that you have been reconnected with the route or road you were originally on.

less effective in Cincinnati.

[Grayson]

There's more than just Swindon to go at...

[surreality]

I looked up our recent local travesty and got derailed by giggling at 'Husbands' Run' which was also on the map. I think it's a creek, but I can't be certain. It is not far from The Blue Ball Barn (also on the map) and again, I am not making this shit up. I couldn't if I tried.

[Grayson]

I live within 50 miles of this street: