04-23-2016, 08:39 AM | #41 | |
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Re: [AtE] Condition of Highways
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04-23-2016, 08:18 PM | #42 | |
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Location: The Land of Enchantment
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Re: [AtE] Condition of Highways
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The American west really is the perfect place for an AtE campaign. Australia is damned good, too.
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04-24-2016, 09:25 AM | #43 |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Reykjavķk, Iceland
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Re: [AtE] Condition of Highways
Oh my, you'd get a heart attack here. I don't think there are roads here that this description fits, yet the speed limit here is 90 kph. There are also non-paved roads and as far as I can tell people don't drive much slower on them.
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04-24-2016, 09:55 AM | #44 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Denver, Colorado
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Re: [AtE] Condition of Highways
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I also don't drive because some of the driving, there, is insane. The Germans are insanely good at it, and the Romanians are insanely bad. The Spanish seemed okay, but it was easy to use the Metro and then just walk, to wherever it was I wanted to go.
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04-24-2016, 02:18 PM | #45 |
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: The Land of Enchantment
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Re: [AtE] Condition of Highways
I've lived a total of five years of my life in Germany and I'll agree- the Germans are insanely good at it. It's also very expensive to take all of the required classes and get a license, there, which probably helps. They also have a much better traffic system than the US. (I envy their recycling system, too.) I like to claim that some of it rubbed off. For instance, it annoys the hell out of me that no one here knows how to use a traffic circle. And then they have the gall to honk at me as if I was the one who screwed up.
OTOH places not to drive include Italy, Greece, and anywhere in the Balkans. Of course, if you're on foot then you're essentially defenseless, so pick your poison...
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04-24-2016, 02:48 PM | #46 | |
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Re: [AtE] Condition of Highways
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Safer? If you know the local conditions and have a good Weather Sense and stay close to land your chances of drowning are low. Given the major inletting of the Bay coastlands it's probably a much shorter distance. While highwaymen can use boats (they're then called pirates) it demands at least some boating knowledge & is more visible than bushwhacking -- so a fair chance of being caught. In that area boats rule. |
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04-24-2016, 07:08 PM | #47 |
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Re: [AtE] Condition of Highways
I live in Maryland. The old land parcels tended to be long and thin so that everyone had a waterfront stretch.
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04-25-2016, 01:15 AM | #48 |
Stick in the Mud
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Rural Utah
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Re: [AtE] Condition of Highways
I don't think I see anyone driving as slow as 60mph here unless it's on a dirt road. Even the highways with 65mph speed limits see a flow of traffic speed closer to 75, and the interstate goes up to 85 or 90 in some places with the average speed being a bit more than that.
The speed limit on the, then, dirt road I grew up on was 55 except on a couple of turns where it dropped to 35 (and you really didn't want to take it faster than that, more than one car ended up in the canal).
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04-25-2016, 01:45 AM | #49 | |
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Colorado
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Re: [AtE] Condition of Highways
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On unfamiliar dirt roads, I'm going slower because I don't know where all the potholes/ruts are to avoid them. |
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04-25-2016, 09:54 PM | #50 |
Stick in the Mud
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Rural Utah
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Re: [AtE] Condition of Highways
Out here, ruts aren't that big of an issue. Washboarding is however. These are a sort of series of sort of ruts that cross the road side to side. Think naturally occuring speed bumps, a few dozen side by side. Or similar to going across several cattle guards in a row.
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