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Re: layout of Datsville
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Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:17:47 GMT
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James J. wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, John VanZwieten writes:
> >
> > Dennett <dennett@agate.net> wrote in message
> > news:199909132142390690.00C2B4AD@agate.net...
> > > John, I have a suggestion. I think we need to make all of Datsville's
> > > streets two-way. three reasons for this are.
> > > 1. My fire trucks, if they were any ordinary traffic are on a one-way
> > > dead end street.
> > > 2. We have dead end one way streets. That doesn't allow traffic.
> > > 3. I hate one way streets.
> > >
> > > One-way streets, especially for a town that small are confusing,
> > > annoying, and a pain.
> > > So I am asking for you to remove the one way signs unless I am
> > > missing something important in my observations.
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> I understand your argument against the one-way streets and sort of agree.
> Someone should at least design a "ONE WAY" sign to let you know which ones are
> which. However, there is at least one pair of 2 seperate one-way drives in a
> downtown area. (Such as Memphis's Second & Third Streets, and Houston, Texas
> has 60% of its downtown streets built in this manner.)
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> > The two north-south one-way streets are part of a state highway that divides
> > north of the courthouse and will reconnect somewhere south of the firestation.
> > The town square also moves in one (counter-clockwise) direction, as most town
> > squares do. Other than that, I don't see any more one-way streets happening.
> >
> > When the fire trucks need to get out going north, the light at that corner
> > will turn all red, allowing them to hang a right and then turn right or left
> > at the light. And the one-ways won't be dead-ends for long.
> >
> > One-way streets are actually good for traffic flow, since they allow
> > stoplights to be timed going both directions.
> >
> > -John Van
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> The traffic lights I made were purposely made for a 1-way or [direction]-bound
> flow of traffic each. Meaning that each specific direction of traffic would get
> a light pole, much unlike the (new) Hickory Hill section of Memphis, Tenn.
> where a row for a specific direction gets one light on the farthest side
> inverted to serve the other direction. In the future, it would serve my purpose
> to add a backplate onto each light in order to drive this point home. (Warning:
> new idea brewing up. ;} ) I also have designs for yellow-dotted lined streets,
> which will seperate the two-laned from the others. (It becomes rotten when you
> get to intersections, but the idea looks great on straights.)
>
> -James Jackson
>
> P.S.: Has a bank or police ("sheriff's") station been erected yet?
The police station is almost finished.
Check the models group for the vechicles I have made
--
Jonathan Wilson
wilsonj@xoommail.com
http://members.xoom.com/wilsonj/
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| (...) I understand your argument against the one-way streets and sort of agree. Someone should at least design a "ONE WAY" sign to let you know which ones are which. However, there is at least one pair of 2 seperate one-way drives in a downtown (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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