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10/14/2010 11:33 am
"My commute to work in the morning is about 20 miles and I am usually at work in less than a half hour."
I need a valium ...
10/14/2010 11:24 am
APRTW wrote:
It is all a clusterfuck. If I lived in a city like that I would likely kill myself. It is awesome and all but the daily driving would drive me up the wall. Call me a pussy but I hate it.
I hated it when I first started, but like Fors said, it's not too bad in most parts. 270 is absolutely the worst since it connects the major interstates together.
Now that I live in a small hick town, it takes me two minutes to get to work.
10/14/2010 11:11 am
"It is all a clusterfuck. If I lived in a city like that I would likely kill myself. It is awesome and all but the daily driving would drive me up the wall. Call me a pussy but I hate it."
My wife works in the city, and it takes her an hour to drive 11 miles. I have a 19-mile commute on a highway that rings the city, and it takes me about an hour and 15 minutes.
Part of the problem is we live on a peninsula, out of which there are only three roads. I hit traffic at the signal about 100 yards from my house and I'm in it until I get to work. And the road I normally use to get out of town goes through Salem, which is impassable during the month of October because every witch, wizard, warlock and weirdo makes a pilgrimage to Salem for Halloween.
Depending on which highway you travel, St. Louis traffic isn't that bad. My commute to work in the morning is about 20 miles and I am usually at work in less than a half hour. If there isn't an accident, I never stop on the highway, and I'm rarely in any significant congestion. But I travel on Highway 70. Highway 40 is the worst, and I think parts of 270 (which rings the city/county) are pretty bad as well.
10/14/2010 11:04 am
I didn't even get that far. I hit the floor laughing when I saw the air filter.
10/14/2010 11:02 am
"It is all a clusterfuck. If I lived in a city like that I would likely kill myself. It is awesome and all but the daily driving would drive me up the wall. Call me a pussy but I hate it."
My wife works in the city, and it takes her an hour to drive 11 miles. I have a 19-mile commute on a highway that rings the city, and it takes me about an hour and 15 minutes.
Part of the problem is we live on a peninsula, out of which there are only three roads. I hit traffic at the signal about 100 yards from my house and I'm in it until I get to work. And the road I normally use to get out of town goes through Salem, which is impassable during the month of October because every witch, wizard, warlock and weirdo makes a pilgrimage to Salem for Halloween.
10/14/2010 11:02 am
I'm sorry, but is that Nitrous on that engine? That's fucking hysterical
10/14/2010 11:02 am
Shouldn't someone with missing teeth be attached to it ?
10/14/2010 10:53 am
"The Ultimate Mowing Machine"
I guessing they are not talking about buying a new John Deere.I think that would just be The Regular Mowing Machine, AP. When you're going for maximum carnage, you want to customize.
10/14/2010 10:51 am
"St. Louis roadways are such a bitch that the Post-Dispatch actually has a beat for it. Maybe that's common at all major newspapers"
The Boston Globe used to have a Sunday column called "Stops & Starts" during the heyday of the Big Dig, but I think it stopped now that the project is finished. I stopped getting the Globe a couple of years ago.
I can't for the life of me figure out why a newspaper would have a beat reporter assigned to daily traffic. It would be like having someone report on the sand dunes at a beach.
10/14/2010 10:50 am
Sounds like the morning commute on Route 128.
Or just about anywhere on the Southern half of I-240 between 10 a.m. and 8:30.
I can't speak for Greater Memphis, but I do recall arriving at Lambert on a Friday morning, girding myself for a lengthy voyage to downtown on I-70 and being pleastantly surprised that I didn't really have to hit the brake until I saw the Arch.
I do recall the confluence of 55, 44 and 70 near the stadium being something of a clusterfuck later that afternoon, however.
It is all a clusterfuck. If I lived in a city like that I would likely kill myself. It is awesome and all but the daily driving would drive me up the wall. Call me a pussy but I hate it.
10/14/2010 9:40 am
I do recall the confluence of 55, 44 and 70 near the stadium being something of a clusterfuck later that afternoon, however.
St. Louis roadways are such a bitch that the Post-Dispatch actually has a beat for it. Maybe that's common at all major newspapers, but it struck me as funny when the reporter visited my class a few years ago saying she covered the transportation beat. I think it may have been because of the major construction of Highway 40, though.
10/14/2010 8:11 am
Sounds like the morning commute on Route 128.
Or just about anywhere on the Southern half of I-240 between 10 a.m. and 8:30.
I can't speak for Greater Memphis, but I do recall arriving at Lambert on a Friday morning, girding myself for a lengthy voyage to downtown on I-70 and being pleastantly surprised that I didn't really have to hit the brake until I saw the Arch.
I do recall the confluence of 55, 44 and 70 near the stadium being something of a clusterfuck later that afternoon, however.
10/14/2010 8:03 am
"The Ultimate Mowing Machine"
I guessing they are not talking about buying a new John Deere.
I think that would just be The Regular Mowing Machine, AP. When you're going for maximum carnage, you want to customize.
10/14/2010 6:57 am
"The Ultimate Mowing Machine"
I guessing they are not talking about buying a new John Deere.
10/13/2010 8:57 pm
Sounds like the morning commute on Route 128.
Or just about anywhere on the Southern half of I-240 between 10 a.m. and 8:30.