*laughs at the cheap cost of water, and warm showers, oh and grass, and trees, and lake houses, and maple syrup*

the people who tend to go out on bad days, and have ill prepared cars, also tend to be the people who need to go out the most. e.g. low wage workers that risk job loss.

It isn’t a feasibility experiment. It is a waste of money. If you can do the basic math and figure out it isn’t worth it then it’s just stupid marketing.

really? that is about 50 200 home concrete buildings in Florida. or 19 bridges like the Baytown Bridge in TX. GDOT had projects lined up for 10m cubic yards of aggregate in 2017.

yeah, sorry there is no real basis of thought in social or economic conservatism. It has alot of fundamental flaws and logic errors that can’t be worked.

You also can’t apply economic conservative pricinciples and maintain social conservative principles. “I don’t want the govmt telling me what to do in my business, but…

to be fair to the slate writer, I wonder the same thing when this site publishes articles on mass transit / zoning / density / road design. Could they have bothered to give an expert or two a call prior to writing the article?

Buddy you throw all this mud at liberals for being “single issue fascists” and you ignore the whole world of right wingers using government power in far worse ways. I’ll just name a few:

I continue to be amazed at how no journalist actually wants to explain how google maps works, or that it is dependent, or perhaps owes its origins to public mapping data, that quite honestly isn’t the best.

There is no one who really maintains routing or mapping systems in the US. And it isn’t talked about enough.

alot of people are telling you to just leave. But I’ll deviate and just ask you to try to open up your political and world views. I realize you may be trying to find venues where you can avoid “politically” uncomfortable topics, but the same people you are discarding are your neighbors, friends, and maybe even your…

funny enough, not having respect for others is the quickest way for me to lose respect for someone....

Why did you post a picture of a downtown that should be pedestrian oriented to try and strengthen your point? A right on red situation would be one where that might be more acceptable is where there are no pedestrian / vehicle interaction possibilities. 

I’m not sure I buy your loss of vision argument due to taller bed sides. You still have better vision than if a mid-size to full size SUV/crossover were parked next to you. And your vision from behind would be the same vs an expedition etc. I guess your argument is the truck is longer, but i’m still skeptical. 

I get the sentiment, but do we really expect anybody to spend the money better? Like it takes years for my city council to figure out how the hell to do a traffic study. JUST THE STUDY. Not the actual improvements. Handing them more money isn’t going to fix how incompetent they are.

And in the grand scheme of things…

If it takes medium duty trucks off the road? yeah. Those things tear up curbs like no one else, and are often driven by lunatics with poor CDLs. 

Bed deck height (above bumper) is 36" on current gen F series trucks. That is 10" higher than it was on F100 (1950's) series trucks. (Which if you do construction work, you are thankful for in the field). Your 300's roofline is at 59" high. The first gen corvette was about 7.5" shorter than your 300 at 51.5". So I’d…

I mean it is fair that you recognize the hyperbole. I looked at this in depth a long while back, overall, the trucks size barely increased compared to similar vehicles in the 90’s. The key difference is that we’ve made them “taller” in appearance with addition of air damns, the use of a flatter hood, and the…

I don’t see the issue here. We shouldn’t be using cities to commute between other cities.

lots of context missing from your statement. Were you looking at a Silverado HD? one with 4x4? a specific trim package? what % of Silverado sales equate to the trim you saw? Saying all trucks are huge is a too broad a brush.

That also said, I’m not sure there is any specific evidence that a taller vehicle traveling at…

This is the dumbest way to set speed limits. Mostly because this has nothing to do with the basic design / intent of the roads. The speed of the road should be dictated by its use / location. Which CHANGES. As an area because more dense, then speed needs to decrease. Lanes get narrower, and pedestrian & local rule…

Yeah, a better way to say it is that surveying & gps isn’t a real “solution.” I think I was saying that “GPS isn’t the thing we can use to fix that issue.” You are 100% correct, in the situation you report, and it is a byproduct of a lack of universal and accurate mapping / surveying, and just how poor GPS signals can…