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I HATE PONIES said:
How exactly does this work? filedata/fetch?id=113564&d=1598419735
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Most likely for traffic control. There may not have been enough room for a dedicated left turn lane and they don't want people stopping traffic on a main road waiting to make a left turn. Fairly common on major city streets. You have to go up a block and circle back. That, or the other side may not be open and that street picks back up on the next block.

I HATE PONIES said:
If you cant turn left why the hell do you need a one way sign?

I think I'll just stay in the country.
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So when you're approaching that street you know in advance that you can't turn right there. Keeps traffic flowing so you're not slowing down to see if you can turn there or not.
 
My sister in-law lives there and says the road rules are fucked up but it keeps the cars moving.
 
Lots of places in Utah qualify for this thread...

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Paragon said:
Anyone care to guess what this delineation is from?
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I'll guess it's a former coastline?


I'm a geologist in my day job, so what makes me say holy fawk may not make y'alls pants get tight. :laughing:

Columnar jointing in basalt

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Alpine4x4 said:
I live 20 minutes from there, Ancient lakes/Quincy lakes area. Our entire area is a geological mindfuck when you start looking at the scale of it. Missoula flood fucked some stuff up. Dry falls, Grand Coulee, Moses Coulee, the whole Crab Creek area, lots of cool formations shaped by tons of water eroding rock away.
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That's a lot of water


"U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist Jim O'Connor and Spanish Center of Environmental Studies scientist Gerard Benito have found evidence of at least twenty-five massive floods, the largest discharging about 10 cubic kilometers per hour (2.7 million m³/s, 13 times the Amazon River).[SUP][1][/SUP] Alternate estimates for the peak flow rate of the largest flood include 17 cubic kilometers per hour[SUP][2][/SUP] and range up to 60 cubic kilometers per hour.[SUP][3][/SUP] The maximum flow speed approached 36 meters/second (130 km/h or 80 mph).[SUP][2] [/SUP]
 
I HATE PONIES said:
How exactly does this work?
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Uhm, the same as any other place where theres one way streets that weave back and forth? no left at the first street (where the first crosswalk is at), only left at the second one (where the second crosswalk is). I'm guessing one of those is an alley or parking entrance since they are so close together.
 
Paragon said:
I've heard both end of a glacier and former coastline..... maybe both

that area has always voted democrat
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I thinks it's the former. Continental glacial activity came down that far south I seem to recall. History serves, my memory does not.
 
http://coloradorestlessnative.blogsp...do-mining.html

Excerpt: "...On a Sunday afternoon, when the mine crews were at home, lake Emma broke through the spot and emptied thousands of gallons of water and over one million tons of mud into the mine. The crater on the surface was the length of three football fields and about 500 feet wide. The water and the mud had about 1,800-foot fall to reach the American Tunnel level. A 20-ton Plymouth Locomotive parked below the main ore pass was completely flattened. All timber, except for a 200-foot section between "G" and "F" levels, was stripped from the Washington Incline Shaft. All mining tunnels, including the mile-long Terry and the two-mile-long American were filled to the top with mud...
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My sister worked at the Kennecott mine when the slide happened. She said they knew it was gonna happen so the parked a bunch of equipment at the bottom so that they could still work after it slid. The thing the engineers didn’t take into account of the material liquifying and moving at a much greater speed than predicted. That’s the reason the 20+ million in equipment got destroyed.

https://www.mining.com/bingham-47835/
 
My gf's geological formations make me say holy shit every time i see them. :smokin:


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ThePanzerFuhrer said:
My sister worked at the Kennecott mine when the slide happened. She said they knew it was gonna happen so the parked a bunch of equipment at the bottom so that they could still work after it slid. The thing the engineers didn’t take into account of the material liquifying and moving at a much greater speed than predicted. That’s the reason the 20+ million in equipment got destroyed.

https://www.mining.com/bingham-47835/
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Ya gotta see this place in person to get a real perspective of how big the hole in the ground is!:eek:
 
Paragon said:
I've heard both end of a glacier and former coastline..... maybe both

that area has always voted democrat
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I think it's coastline because south and east of that point, all the way up most of the east coast, it's Tertiary deposits. Rising and falling sea level for tens of millions of years. Sea level didn't creep in more because of the Appalachians and foothills. I could be wrong though, I've never looked into it.
 
Sceep said:
no left at the first street (where the first crosswalk is at), only left at the second one (where the second crosswalk is). I'm guessing one of those is an alley or parking entrance since they are so close together.
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Thats all one intersection with crosswalks on both sides of the street. It's 7th and 46th. Not sure where you got that pics from but it must be recent because W 46th is closed in that direction. So ... you can drive down it, one way, till 7th ..... then no


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Now that that is cleared up and we can all sleep better tonight .......

Sceep said:
Pics or ban? All those in favor? :flipoff2:
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Sounds about right .... :flipoff2:
 
So the road is closed off for construction and you can't turn off of it?
yep... that clears that up.
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