Posted on 04/17/2023 11:40:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
bingo!
That is NOT a racist sign, as the outlines are GRAY!
Looks like Visual Sanskrit
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The roads. Yeah, THEY know! /s
I am 83.
I have driving since I was 15 1/2—farm license—distance limited & day light hours only.
I have driven OVER 1 million miles—
Put OVER 444,000 miles on the ONLY new car I ever had—1965 Pontiac wagon. All other vehicles I have owned were used when I bought them.
Have 1976 1 ton 4 speed dually Chevy truck in driveway that has over 348,000 miles on it. I PUT OVER 250,000 of those miles on it. MOSTLY towing horses.
Current car—1979 Buick station wagon has over 222,000 miles—I put 167,000+ on it.
NEVER had an accident-——Got 3 speeding tickets -—and ticket for “Exhibition of Speed”—drag racing—but I beat the pants off the kid.
Age is NOT a factor-—Behavior is a factor—along with drinking & drug usage. I don’t use either.
Wait until someone tells them that you cannot make BLACKTOP material or Steel bridges without Fossil fuels.
This guy has to be one of the dumbest homos on the planet.
GOD-—THAT IS DISAPPOINTING
I have lived rural for 40 of my 83 years.
I think I am far more safe on roads than in the city.
They don’t call it “black top” for nothin.
OR maybe it relates to the disproportionate percentage of people of color who drink and dope and drive ...
[see “On Patrol Live” on Friday and Saturday nights on Reelz network for confirmation of this theory]
“...This guy is Insane...”
Uh...well, he IS married to another guy.....
I think I am far more safe on roads than in the city.
In a major city such as NYC, one is far less likely to be going at the same velocity as in rural areas. High velocity is generally a significant factor in fatal accidents.
There is a significantly greater percentage of trucks in rural versus urban areas. Accidents involving truck vs. car also tend to create more fatalities. Victims of serious accidents in an urban area are more likely to be near a major hospital which also affects the rate of fatalities.
Beautiful And Deadly: A Disproportionate Number Of People Die On America’s Rural Roads; Tanya Mohn, Forbes, September 29, 2022
Rural roads are often beautiful, but nearly half of all fatal crashes occur on them, even though only 19% of the U.S. population lives in rural areas. In 2020, the risk of dying in a crash was 62% higher on a rural road compared to an urban road for the same trip length.
It is true that fatalities are a greater factor on rural roads, but that is not the result of roads designed with some evil intent.
Actually there was once a limited plausible rationale for thinking roads are anti-black.
When I started on my political science degree in 1964 at Wayne State University I was told by “liberal” professors and my older black friends I met that the nearby expressways were opposed by black people at first because they literally split the traditional black neighborhoods in half.
Before my time but I heard the stories of formerly southern migrants (many from TN and MS who came to work in auto plants) who played the authentic black blues mainly Delta style and other music in venues in the two parts of the “black bottom” area, now separated from each other. John Lee Hooker played there. The other similar area “Paradise Valley” was also cut off from the other side of the new division. Residents were said to have been given 30 days notice to relocate.
https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/black-bottom-neighborhood
The planning of the expressways was obviously not deliberately to do that, of course.
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