Re:People in Los Angeles Are Getting Rid Of Their Cars
by Fiahil on Saturday September 03, 2016 @05:18PM
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> I agree it was rather cruel of the local council to stick a magic roundabout right outside Heathrow's car hire[1]
The inverted pentagram shape (facing east) of that thing was made on purpose, right? It seems, somebody on the city council just wanted to summon a massive demon :)
Re:People in Los Angeles Are Getting Rid Of Their Cars
by chillydawg on Sunday September 04, 2016 @06:13AM
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The whole M25 is a cruel, demonic joke.
Re:People in Los Angeles Are Getting Rid Of Their Cars
by rsync on Sunday September 04, 2016 @01:29PM
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Do I view this sat pic correctly and see that those are nested roundabouts ?
Is that a thing ? Is this the only example of such a thing, or do they exist elsewhere ?
Re:People in Los Angeles Are Getting Rid Of Their Cars
by detaro on Sunday September 04, 2016 @01:33PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout#Magic_roundabout
first one, some additional info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)
Before I lived in LA, I lived in Boston. I still have the rather nice pair of wire cutters that were left behind rather hastily when I came back to get my bicycle at the stand after being in a shop for about 3 minutes. Now that is a city with a bicycle theft problem.
But military histories quite often comment how most of the GI's had much better mechanical skills that their British counterparts, and how baseball pitching was instrumental in their superior grenade use. (Cricket bowling just doesn't teach quite the right skills there.)
Despite being one of the most homogeneous species on the planet, everybody is different. I agree it was rather cruel of the local council to stick a magic roundabout right outside Heathrow's car hire[1], to add to the driving on the wrong side/manual transmission nightmare, but at least it let's people know what they're in for.
[1] http://goo.gl/Dk3mXw