Another big pile up on I35
- Thread starter Cyclonepride
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Heading Northbound on I-35 as this accident began with a single car in the middle of the road. As I glanced over to see cars veering towards the famous metal rails, I heard crunch crunch crunch with plastic and debris flying everywhere. While this may not have been the safest thing I felt helpless for those coming and Flash my lights and wave my hand out the window among those included the school bus. Vehicles barreling down the interstate at 70 miles an hour with reduced visibility 30 seconds away from disaster.
Every mile of it would have to be gone over with the weed eater as well. But taxpayers be damned. Or so I hear.Plopping them in the middle also poses some drainage issues.
Why? This is a median of a rural highway, not a championship golf course. It doesn't need to be a perfectly manicured strip of grass.
Good....I would try the same thing. When it comes to interstate driving....we are all in this together and it is saddening/sickening to see this because you see it coming. You are helpless and you see others that are helpless because of some aggressive driving ass hole causes these things. I had a super extra large mega SUV pass me about a year ago on I-55.....Illinois plates.....doing 95 minimum. I vividly remember. A lot of the pack driving I witnessed that day too.....I was caught in the accident aftermath about 60 miles up the road and delayed hours as that SUV wrecked killing all four in it. I saw it and looked it up on when I got home. I'm not a traffic camera fan and--like all people-- I hate getting ticketed for going 5 mph over the limit (its been a while since that ever happened)....but the aggressive drivers on the interstate need to somehow be slapped and shamed into the worst possible punishment they can. I don't know....???? I don't know what the answer is.
Well when you start ******** that you couldn't see the deer you hit at 70+ mph because of the tall grass in the median, we can revisit this then.
From a narrow strip of untrimmed grass under a cable barrier? Doubtful. LOL. That deer must be half ninja.
You must be one of those lazy DOT mowers pushing this nonsense. Other states do these barriers in the center of the median, it can be done.
CycloneErik
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It’s almost like the novelty of antilock brakes has wore off. People just assume that they will be able to stop at all times.
http://www.transportationmatters.io...creates-challenges-for-maintenance-crews.html
Actually the DOT still mows around the barriers. The location is not to spare DOT workers the effort of mowing around them.
Also, the barriers save lives. A lot of lives.
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.kcci.com/article/iowa-dot-aims-to-reduce-road-fatalities/9596337
Actually the DOT still mows around the barriers. The location is not to spare DOT workers the effort of mowing around them.
Also, the barriers save lives. A lot of lives.
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.kcci.com/article/iowa-dot-aims-to-reduce-road-fatalities/9596337
It’s funny to imagine these people screaming Leeeeeroy Jennnnnnnkins as they ram each other.
God damn it, Leroy.
God damn it, Leroy.
Time to add a third lane up to Ames? I’ve had several near misses on this stretch and try to avoid it like the plague when I’m back in central Iowa. Unfortunately hard to do.
CycloneErik
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We're already reducing it to zero with all the pileups.
That's already in the works, I believe. That won't stop morons from being morons in poor weather conditions, though.