They a few years back installed a version of the Diamond on Winton Rd where the expressway crosses over it. The idea is to eliminate left hand turns in front of traffic. Which works great!
But. You now have confused folk wandering from lane to lane and suddenly slowing down.
The number of fender benders went up a lot briefly, and has stayed higher, BUT... It was an intersection pair that had a lot of bad accidents, so overall it's a positive. It does eliminate the #1 car/bike accident, so that's good.
It's much like installing a regular traffic circle/roundabout where one hadn't been, and people are not used to them. A Circle was put up the street from a friend's house, and there were several accidents until the local drunks caught on they couldn't sleep in a straight line through it. It was at the peak of a hill, on the N-S road, so folk would zoom over the top and not see cross traffic & vice versa. The temporary carnage did the Darwin thing and over time the death toll has gone down.
Personally, I would take an extra lap if there was little to no traffic, both on the Cyclone and my VW. Just for giggles.
We have a "partial" circle with Yield signs ON THE CIRCLE on the E & W sides so that traffic on the E-W road doesn't have to stop. It's been that way for decades, at least since I moved here in 1968, so I surmise it was a park in a traffic circle that got altered to suit local reality.
I can't lap that with right of way, ( I don't ever count on being seen, so I don't "use" right of way like an idiot in a car might ) but if it's clear I can slow, look, and roll on around.
..while traffic discussion seems to not be germane to the thread... If Biden takes power, then the Greenie Leap Forward will make talking about motor vehicle interchanges obsolete.
Can you run with pending charges? Yes. Or it would be SOP to get a judge or DA to charge your opponent.
Radio talk guy today opined that the sudden fake polls showing a Biden landslide are preparations for next month's coup/riots/Media Blitz. Accusing Trump of Fraud.
The early voting initially shows even up? ( I am told, it's too early to confirm ) That's a surprise. Everyone I know who plans to vote R told me they're waiting until election day.
I've got predictions! But before I go full Cassandra mode, I want to think a bit. My initial guess was Trump ahead by election day evening, and late counts of harvested fraud going for Harris. But...
Heard that Qanon were listed as terrorist threat. Don't know diddle else about her. Him? It? Zir? I do know the Obama regime listed veterans as a terrorist threat.
So maybe I'd like them? ZIr? If I knew anything about it.
In South Dakota you've got a choice. There's no local NFL team so most pick Broncos or Vikings. Bumper art etc. Branding is everywhere. Generally speaking, I like Minnesotans. Hard working Scandahoovian parodies of NPR country folk. Minneapolis is The Big City, and tourists were only affected by hotel taxes, etc. Expensive car tows, an inner ghetto to be avoided, usual Big City Stuff.
Now Big City Stuff equals Communist Party Leadership worship and soaring crime rates.
To be fair! Rochester NY Mayor Lovely Warren ( first female mayor ) did crack down on the Antifa/BLM/Democrat Party sponsored riots, when the arson & looting got bad and the agitators decided to block the expressway to provoke a fake news response to fleeing cars being mobbed... The pound on the car until they try to run then declare them Trump White Supremacist murderers routine.
Never mind that she's under indictment for felony fraud, etc. That actually says Good things about local Government. Sometimes they pretend to have laws that apply to the Elite.
So the debate last night. There were more than a couple spots where Biden looked like he was about to stroke out..."I have a pl-pl-pla-pl-p-p-pl-plan". Repeating phrases, stammering out partial phrases over and over again, it was ugly.
And the look on his face was that of a man who was listening to something - curious what sort of comm devices he was using, he was obviously being fed information somehow.
This man is not fit for office. People say that about Trump because Orange Man Bad, but this is an actual MEDICAL issue.
It's great that this bad stuff about the Bidens is coming out, but I don't think it's going to make any difference. I'm convinced that if Joe Biden killed a child on a city sidewalk, in front of hundreds of witnesses, and it was on video, some people would STILL vote for him. Because.....you know.....orange man bad. We don't know why, but orange man bad.
Voting is a sacred right that we should all appreciate more.
Maybe we would if everyone had to put a little effort into it.
Ayup.
Get off your fat asses and GO TO THE POLLING SITE. You can waddle through WalMart; you can drive around wherever you want (as evidenced by how freakin' BUSY we are at my automotive repair shop); you can clog the roadways during rush hour; then you can go vote in person, with a mask on, stay six feet from other people, and man-the-
This is the full Rally for President Trump in Prescott this week. Laurie and I can be seen several times, once at 2:08:40 but you have to play "Where's Waldo". Laurie is wearing a pink Trump cap and I am in a black "Where's Hunter" t-shirt. Kayleigh McEnerny is at 2:29:00. Governor Ducey and Martha McSally start at 2:45:50.
President Trump exits Marine One and "Proud to Be an American" at 1:58:30
We are still thrilled three days later. An American President has not visited Prescott since 1908.
Laurie has been working her tail off for President Trump and Senator Martha McSally. Her opponent is Mark Kelly is anti-gun, pro-China, and even flew the Chinese Communist Flag into space as well as on his motorcycle. Soros and the Socialist Democrat Party are flooding money and outspending us in Arizona. Scary times but our hill is protected by Patriots.