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re: Big changes to E Boyd and Burbank coming---Update with VIDEO--signs now
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:25 pm to kingbob
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:25 pm to kingbob
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You don't have to buy up land! That's what I'm saying! There's enough room on the shoulder to re-stripe and make it work. They don't have to buy any land! I f&%king measured it!
the elevation of the road would have to be raised considerably to make the transition over the tracks flatter
you can't raise it without having room to slope the ditches back
i'm not even sure where DOTD's ROW and the RR's meet
the businesses on the opposite side of nicholson are so close to the road theres almost no room to go that way
it's a clusterfrick
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Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:27 pm to kingbob
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guarantee you, I am quite knowledgeable.
Would you like me to draw you a picture?
Maybe.
Seems to me you know jack shite about traffic and the process of building roads.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:28 pm to Croacka
I'm not talking about widening, I'm talking about a temporary solution by carving out left turn lanes by re-striping the existing right turn lane and straight lane by re-striping the road and shoulder near the intersection. This will help to improve traffic while we continue to wait for the opportunity to someday widen it and improve the intersection once and for all.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:28 pm to kingbob
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You don't have to buy up land! That's what I'm saying! There's enough room on the shoulder to re-stripe and make it work. They don't have to buy any land! I f&%king measured it!
Um, just no.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:29 pm to kingbob
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carving out left turn lanes by re-striping the existing right turn lane and straight lane by re-striping the road and shoulder near the intersection.
the right turn lane is probably offset just enough right now to meet the turn radius required
moving it closer to the tracks fricks that up
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:30 pm to CarRamrod
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do you even Nicholson Ext bro?
yeah, and that's great if I'm trying to go to campus. But it brings me in the opposite direction if I'm trying to get to Tigerland
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:30 pm to LNCHBOX
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You don't have to buy up land! That's what I'm saying! There's enough room on the shoulder to re-stripe and make it work. They don't have to buy any land! I f&%king measured it!
Um, just no.
To widen the road? yes To convert the straight/left lane turn lane into a left and the right turn lane into a straight/right turn? You actually don't.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:30 pm to kingbob
So make each turn lane a straight and turn right lane?
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:31 pm to Croacka
quote:It's probably not even standard for the design vehicle as it is.
the right turn lane is probably offset just enough right now to meet the turn radius required
moving it closer to the tracks fricks that up
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:31 pm to Croacka
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the elevation of the road would have to be raised considerably to make the transition over the tracks flatter
you can't raise it without having room to slope the ditches back
i'm not even sure where DOTD's ROW and the RR's meet
the businesses on the opposite side of nicholson are so close to the road theres almost no room to go that way
it's a clusterfrick
They really are hemmed in right there. And, the RR is notoriously difficult to work with as well.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:31 pm to The Sad Banana
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It's probably not even standard for the design vehicle as it is.
not with that levee of a RR track you have to go over
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:32 pm to Croacka
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the right turn lane is probably offset just enough right now to meet the turn radius required
moving it closer to the tracks fricks that up
You still right turn from the same spot you do now. It doesn't move over any farther. What's moving are the cars heading straight. You would be heading straight from the same spot that you currently right turn. The restriping is up the road so 18-wheelers aren't trying to s-curve into intersection too radically.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:33 pm to Hammertime
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So make each turn lane a straight and turn right lane?
Current straight/left turn lane becomes a right
Current right turn lane becomes a straight/right
That's it
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:33 pm to kingbob
That video of cars going through the new intersection posted several pages back was the best thing I've ever seen.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:35 pm to kingbob
so you want to make the right turn lane a straight or right lane and the left/straight lane a left turn only lane
although it might work, i'm sure traffic modeling software may have determined that the current setup is the most efficient.....even though that could be outdated considering how drastically that area has changed
although it might work, i'm sure traffic modeling software may have determined that the current setup is the most efficient.....even though that could be outdated considering how drastically that area has changed
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:35 pm to kingbob
As Croacka said, you can't do that.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:37 pm to kingbob
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With the right striping and lights with turn signals, there is a cheap and feasible solution to the traffic right there.
I just don't know that it would be quite as easy as you say. You've obviously driven through that intersection a lot. You see the rutting that's occurred there over the years.. and that's on the travel lanes.
You have a high volume of 18 wheelers and heavy trucks traveling that corridor. And there's a decent possibility that the shoulder doesn't have the same asphalt thickness as the travel lane. Shoulders are generally not designed to handle 20,000 ADT or whatever it might be out there.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:37 pm to kingbob
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Current straight/left turn lane becomes a right Current right turn lane becomes a straight/right
I've always thought doing this would help a lot. People turning left is what causes it to back up usually.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:39 pm to CP3
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Current straight/left turn lane becomes a right Current right turn lane becomes a straight/right
I've always thought doing this would help a lot. People turning left is what causes it to back up usually.
If for whatever retarded reason this can't be done, then left turns there just need to be made illegal.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 12:40 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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, then left turns there just need to be made illegal.
now you're on to something
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