Posted on 08/24/2019 12:06:15 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
When a school district deems its regions main thoroughfare unsafe for school buses, that highways problems need fixed.
Lots of Wabash Valley residents fear driving on the local stretch of Interstate 70. And with good reason.
Fatal accidents several involving semi tractor-trailers crashing into stopped or slowed traffic have become frequent on I-70 between the Illinois-Indiana border and Indianapolis. Accidents along that 68-mile path outnumbered those on the 66-mile portion east of Indy to the Ohio border in 2016 and 2017, according to the Indiana University Public Policy Institutes statistics. Distracted driving has been cited as a factor in several cases.
Three more fatalities occurred on I-70 west of Indianapolis last month. On Monday, the Vigo County School Corp. announced its buses wont travel on I-70 because of the significant number of serious accidents. The VCSC doesnt even want drivers to use I-70 to shuttle buses between schools when students arent aboard.
Buses must use alternate routes, such as U.S. 40. Itll take longer, but as VCSC communications director Bill Riley put it, Keeping our children safe is one of our basic priorities, and recent news tells us that our children will be safer staying off Interstate 70.
It wasnt a snap decision. Superintendent Rob Haworth and fellow administrators reviewed the interstates safety problems. Weve discussed this for a few weeks, Riley told the Tribune-Stars Sue Loughlin. We can no longer ignore the safety issues on I-70. Its something weighing on all of our minds.
Such a smart step has been taken before. In 2011, former superintendent Danny Tanoos restricted bus travel on I-70 because of a spate of accidents involving congested traffic around construction zones.
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Heard ALL of that. And yeah, its mostly just pronunciation. Or some made-up cutsie word for something.
Warsh is rampant through MD but not consistent.
Red up is grammar issue partly. I bet it stems from ready. The up is superfluous.
My MIL says Keller all the time and drives me crazy! But again, just accent.
Needs cut is unique to me. Never heard such a weird grammar situation, and yes the much-maligned blacks with Ebonics dont do it!
The other thing is let vs leave. What would you think when someone asks if you left the dog out, and the dog is right there IN the family room? I didnt know howto answer except hey, the dog here! Yeah, thats massive confusion, my first realization that something was really off!
Ever heard of being snoopy? Or is that just my MIL as I havent heard anyone else say that yet.
I’ve driven that stretch. Trucks with governors bumper to bumper going just over 60MPH. Car speed limit is 70MPH so cars try to go 80MPH. The speed differential makes it very dicey.
BTW I thought dippy means just sunny-side up eggs, so they can dip into the yolk? OTOH maybe people do dip into over-easy eggs? I dont eat any of those kinds, but my dad does that with sunny side. My DH and MIL dont eat eggs either, so have no assurance of what it means.
But the cream is all onest.
Heard snoopy.. but more often its “nebby” around here..
Nope, dippy is over easy around these parts....
Of course no one knows how to actually cook an over easy egg to save their life.
They are under the impression that over easy means the white is still runny as well,... which is disgusting.. but not remotely the most disgusting food they eat around here...
Any “over” egg regardless of easy, medium of hard, the white should be fully cooked, the adjective describes the yolk.. but not around here, they will serve you an egg that has barely touched the pan on both sides, and is basically raw if you order over easy or “dippy”
The thing is, not only have I never heard that outside the name of a comic dog, but even allowing for it being based on some other word, I still got it wrong.
I assumed maybe snoopy meant NOSY, you know, snooping around into other business.
But no,it means what we call picky. Finicky. Sigh.
Still, language is fluid.
What is considered ‘proper’ today will not be a hundred years from now.
Can two ebonics speakers understand each other?
Can pidgin English patois be understood?
Maybe the legisl00ture could mandate that I-70 have 3.141592654 lanes in each direction. That way, cyclists, mopedders and hoverboarders could use the fractional lane and part of the shoulder for safe riding.
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