[DMCForum] Re: Traffic.

["Joe OBrien" <joeyoseppijoe@xxxxxxxxx>]

ENVIRONMENT, you almost had it. But hey, we all make spelling 
mistakes.

http://www.iespell.com/  

Give this a shot Josh, it works wonders for IE users.


-Joe







--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Josh Porter" <joshp1986@xxxx> 
wrote:
> Robert,
> 
> I took highway 59 and 45. I'm a cheepskate so even if the toll was 
> $.25 I would go out of the way. I'm a product of my enviroment. 
Did I 
> spell that e word right? It looks funny to me.
> 
> Josh
> 
> --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "therealdmcvegas" <dmcvegas@xxxx> 
> wrote:
> > Ahhhh, driving in Chocolate City.... There was like only one gas 
> > station that we could find within several MILES of DuPont 
Circle! 
> > Scared the hell out of my friend when I whipped the car around 
in 
> > reverse to beat a cabbie to the ONLY open pump! Not too bad on 
the 
> > way back, except I got blocked off by an agressive driver, and 
> missed 
> > my turn-off, and wound up in Crystal City.
> > 
> > Houston though... Whoever designed the Sam Houston Tollway, they 
> need 
> > to be shot. You either have to get off a mile ahead of Old 
Humble 
> > Road, or overshoot it a mile to make a U-turn to get to DMC. And 
> it's 
> > like that with almost every single major offramp! I agree it was 
a 
> > pain in the ass. And the Tollway wasn't cheap either...
> > 
> > A city with a really cool freeway system is Columbus, Ohio. They 
> have 
> > a whole bunch of freeways that curve around downtown, and will 
form 
> a 
> > loop around all of it. The traffic is light enough, and the 
> > interchanges are designed for speed, with the ramps spread out 
and 
> > banked. So you can easily lap downtown like a giant circle 
track! 
> Now 
> > THAT would be a cool place to race! But I wasn't fond of them 
> giving 
> > major streets highway #'s, instead of names.
> > 
> > -Robert
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Josh Porter" <joshp1986@xxxx> 
> wrote:
> > > I heard that the reason it is so hard for outsiders to 
navigate 
> > > through DC is the people that planned out the streets did that 
on 
> > > purpose. So that people going after the president would have a 
> > > difficult time getting to the white house. I don't know if 
that 
> is 
> > > true but makes sense to me.
> > > 
> > > Houston is another hard town for me to get through. Compared 
to 
> > where 
> > > I live they have no signage. I went down to Johnson space 
center 
> > > before the open house, I got lost going down there and coming 
> back.
> > > 
> > > Josh

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