Posted on 07/27/2022 6:19:14 AM PDT by gitmo
The mayor of a California city said an error by contractors was responsible for the zigzagging lane lanes on a city road that left some residents scratching their heads.
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Velazquez said the lines were supposed to be slightly curved, but the instructions were apparently misinterpreted by the contractors who painted the lines.
"Basically, it just comes down to the contractor. Somebody didn't read the plans correctly," Velazquez said. "It was not designed to look very odd."
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
If you've never driven with your door open so you can see the line, you've never driven in heavy fog.
I would really like to read the RFP on this one...
Road crew be saying...”No hablo inglés, señor jefe.”.
A chicane (/ʃɪˈkeɪn/) is a serpentine curve in a road, added by design rather than dictated by geography. Chicanes add extra turns and are used both in motor racing and on roads and streets to slow traffic for safety. For example, one form of chicane is a short, shallow S-shaped turn that requires the driver to turn slightly left and then slightly right to continue on the road, requiring the driver to reduce speed. The word chicane is derived from the French verb chicaner, which means “to create difficulties” or “to dispute pointlessly”, “quibble”, which is also the root of the English noun chicanery.[1]
Somebody didn’t read the plans correctly,..............
Likely, some illiterate woke cuck did not write the directions in a manner understandable to a normal human being.
Hah...probably more straight lines done in California than in any other state in America.
I see both more and more; incompetent staff and inept bosses who are terrified to ask questions and risk exposing what they don't know.
Dude, he harshed my buzz.
As a young man I worked some temp day labor in highway construction. Our job was to re-dig highway guardrail posts because they were 8 inches off. It was a huge mess. As simple laborers we really did not get much accomplished because the bosses didn’t seem to know what they were doing. I got paid my cash every day, though.
Prep for the (future) permanent traffic control roadblock.
Papers please!
“Oh, Cuervo. Si.”
I look at that painting and irreverently think, “Jesus !”
I’ve been in Construction / Engineering / Management for 25+ years. I’ve seen some pretty dumb stuff.
I’m pretty sure my NDA has expired on this one.
Large public project about 15 years ago. I managed a concrete contracting company. We had some of the work. The lower foundation and wall structures had so much rebar designed to overlap in them, there was no room for concrete in the forms. Before the project started, RFIs (Request for Information) were submitted to address the design issue at several beam intersections. The engineer refused to budge on the design. Meetings were requested. The engineer thought that contractors were trying to cut corners. The design was followed per spec with additives to make the concrete very flowable (water reducing agent) per the allowable specs.
The project was stopped immediately when the lower level forms were stripped. By now several stories had been constructed. The mass of overlapping rebar at concrete structural beam intersections had acted like a sieve and filtered out the aggregate of the concrete. The project was delayed obviously and lawsuits ensued.
Moral of the story.... Dumb stuff in construction is not always the contractor’s fault.
Looks pretty normal for those people.
Isn’t that what the first person to see that water-walking lizard thought?
Likely the crews didn't speak Engrish and adapted.
Exactly, I’m surprised they even noticed.
Yes, there is a traffic circle (not a roundabout) in the intersection. They painted the lines to get people to slow down before they get there. But I don’t understand same striping layout after exiting the intersection.
Even at roundabouts, they design the curbs to get the driver to turn slightly left before entering to the right.
My guess is that this is a problem intersection, so the local agency is trying to figure out how to solve the issue, which is most likely speeding. Unfortunately, this striping job is too excessive. A major rule of traffic engineering is don’t make things too confusing for the driver. Too many decision points or confusing signage and striping can have a worse effect.
In my 30 years of experience, we would have tried the following based upon cost vs. benefit returns:
1) increase traffic enforcement by the police (this one rarely works as the cops hate traffic policing)
2) more and bigger speed limit signs along the route with blinking lights
3) Flashing Radar speed limit signs
4) rumble strips
5) speed humps or traffic circle
6) Roundabout or traffic signal systems
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