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re: The new roundabouts in Hammond
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:08 pm to Horsemeat
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:08 pm to Horsemeat
quote:
All they really needed to do was put a traffic light at the truck stops and sync the i12 & club deluxe lights so that the rigs could get back to the interstate without much of a problem - instead they chose this and virtually nobody knows how to drive them, and they didn't make 'em wide enough for an 18 wheeler to stay in one lane while taking the tight turns.
It hurts my head how much you don't understand what you're talking about.
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Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:09 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
If you can't drive a roundabout, turn your fricking driver license back over to the DMV.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:11 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
quote:are awful, especially with the amount of 18 wheelers coming through there. I don't know what the frick they were thinking
The new roundabouts in Hammond
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:12 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
It's an absolute clusterfrick. 1. The idiots don't know how they work, and 2. They're not big enough for the 18-wheelers to drive around. I've witnessed several incidents of the trucks hitting the curbs and nearly tipping over. I predict a number of wrecks in the near future once construction is fully completed.
This post was edited on 11/19/15 at 4:13 pm
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:15 pm to StealthCalais11
The inner lane of the roundabout is supposed to make the circle and the outer lane is supposed to go straight. However, the trucks can't make the turn while in the inner lane so they're in the outer lane trying to make the circle. It's fricking stupid. In the past I was constantly using that exit to go to Target, Academy, etc. Now I just take I-55S to Morrison and come in the back way
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:18 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
quote:They're also more efficient than four way stops. But you have to have a little common sense and courtesy to be able to use them. Oh the humanity, amirite?
roundabouts are fricking dumb as shite
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:18 pm to The Sad Banana
quote:not when 18 wheelers are taking up both lanes to circle the roundabout
They're also more efficient than four way stops.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:25 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
Like someone mentioned, they're not finished. I'll bet money the roundabouts work MUCH better than the shitshow that intersection was before... even with the dumbass drivers.
So, come back a few months after the job is completely finished and eat crow, aight.
So, come back a few months after the job is completely finished and eat crow, aight.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:28 pm to ForeverLSU02
I've been waiting for a 18 wheeler to eat it, surprised it hasn't happened yet. I thought it had it 2 weeks ago though, a car hauler fully loaded was on the south side and hit the curb. That dude was seriously lucky as that track was swaying like crazy back and forth.
It is a giant cluaterfrick, I work by the mall sometimes and don't even go near that crap to go home. I go through Hammond to the airport road exit to avoid that dumb shite.
It is a giant cluaterfrick, I work by the mall sometimes and don't even go near that crap to go home. I go through Hammond to the airport road exit to avoid that dumb shite.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:32 pm to MorbidTheClown
Listen you shitasses, I grew up in cenla, home of the most awesome round about in Louisiana-the traffic circle. So rest assured I can use one.
And to the gentleman who called me a dumbass, I'm seeing the most stupidity in the round about that IS AND HAS BEEN completed. The one going towards north oaks has been done for a while. The natives have had months to practice their skills on that one and they still fail. Every. Single. Time.
And to the gentleman who called me a dumbass, I'm seeing the most stupidity in the round about that IS AND HAS BEEN completed. The one going towards north oaks has been done for a while. The natives have had months to practice their skills on that one and they still fail. Every. Single. Time.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:33 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
Shut up
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:33 pm to PhiTiger1764
quote:
It hurts my head how much you don't understand what you're talking about.
Right, because I don't understand anything about 18 wheelers and two of the most popular chains of truck stops for nationwide fleets to use, right?
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:36 pm to MorbidTheClown
I love roundabouts. Traffic constantly moves, except for the occasional dumb frick that doesn't know how to use them. People that dislike roundabouts must live to sit at traffic lights.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:38 pm to Horsemeat
quote:
Right, because I don't understand anything about 18 wheelers and two of the most popular chains of truck stops for nationwide fleets to use, right?
No. You think throwing up more traffic lights at the truck stops and "syncing the lights" will fix the problem = you don't know what you're talking about.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:43 pm to PhiTiger1764
The people arguing that roundabouts are great must have missed the part where I indicated the specific ones in Hammond. No one said they were all bad. But the locations of these with regard to the amount of 18 wheelers using them coupled with the ignorance of Hammond drivers to properly negotiate them is really dumb.
Give it a couple weeks once they're all open.. a big rig will tip over on a scared stupid Kia driver trying to use the yield sign as a complete stop sign.
Give it a couple weeks once they're all open.. a big rig will tip over on a scared stupid Kia driver trying to use the yield sign as a complete stop sign.
This post was edited on 11/19/15 at 4:44 pm
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:44 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
quote:
home of the most awesome round about in Louisiana-the traffic circle
A traffic circle is not a roundabout... just so you don't come off as a dumbass in the future.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:45 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
quote:
a big rig will tip over on a scared stupid Kia driver trying to use the yield sign as a complete stop sign.
picc
you must have read my stumberg thread from the other day.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:45 pm to BoostAddict
Same rules of engagement....
GEEZ, argue much?
GEEZ, argue much?
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:45 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
quote:
Give it a couple weeks once they're all open.. a big rig will tip over on a scared stupid Kia driver trying to use the yield sign as a complete stop sign.
A truck is not going to flip over going through a roundabout.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 4:48 pm to PhiTiger1764
quote:
No. You think throwing up more traffic lights at the truck stops and "syncing the lights" will fix the problem = you don't know what you're talking about.
Two busiest fuel stations in hammond that generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in fuel for 18 wheelers that have constant traffic problems - seems like helping them out a bit to have a clear path to get back to i12 without the idiot drivers of louisiana getting in their way is the reasonable solution. Instead the put up 3 obstacles for them to drive next to idiots that don't understand that the rear of the trailer is going to move into the left lane when they're going around.
Or they could have just made traffic stop for 30 seconds so a couple of trucks could get out and go directly to i12.
I'm the idiot.
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