Re: Reverse Angle or Back-in Parking

(I think this falls under into the miscellaneous travel topics category or the "small town pothole report" category)

This is probably one of those things only an engineer can appreciate. It reminds me of the change to charging toll on one direction of the bridge-- why didn't we think of that before? Reverse angle parking improves visibility for those pulling out angle parking and possibly reduces obstruction of the street. Couple of cities in California have this arrangement. First I have heard of this in Montana.



http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_8dcc8150-91fd-11de-bdd0-001cc4c002e0.html


reverse-angle parking info
http://lda.ucdavis.edu/LDA191/Course%20Handouts%20&%20Readings/05-Back_in_Diagonal_Parking.pdf


We are thinking of getting some of those new-fangled three color stoplights also.

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

Beats parallel parking!

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Vince
Beats parallel parking!

Just about anything would be parallel parking a Bronco.

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We are thinking of getting some of those new-fangled three color stoplights also.

What color are the three lamps on the current ones?

Traffic lights with three colors???
Actually, there is a town in Montana (Phillipsburg in Granite county) that boasts having the only stoplight in the county-- and it only is a flashing red light!

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

Actually, the Bronco is very easy to parallel park, much more so than the Mustang, which has a really terrible turning radius and bad brakes.

Vince,

I thought the bronco died. Apparently it was not terminal.

Jim

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tomdisco
I thought the bronco died.

It did... but it got better.
[Credit to Hawkeye Pierce, MASH 4077]

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tomdisco
I thought the bronco died.

It did... but it got better.
[Credit to Hawkeye Pierce, MASH 4077]

I didn't know Hawkeye Pierce repaired trucks, just stole them. Remember in the original movie when Hawkeye leaves, the camp CO asks Radar if Hawkeye just stole that jeep he left in. Radar said, "No sir, that's the same one he arrived in".

Jim