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    Quote Originally Posted by ötzi View Post
    In a lot of places in New Jersey they divide the four lanes and have these weird loop-around lanes, like an exit ramp that circles back to the other side. I guess it's probably safer but it's definitely less convenient, you have to turn right, go to the next loop thingie and go around it to get going the other way. It also keeps you from doing a left across traffic.
    That sounds like a Michigan left.

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    ^We have those too. In the middle of the two highways they put Verizon stores and the occasional Long John Silvers. If you don't want to wait for the actual turnaround you just bust a move thru the Long John Silvers lot. Lots of different options available to make a left in NJ.
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    Yeah Bmills except the ones I've seen in Jersey you have to exit to the right, then it loops back. They go all the way around so you enter the other side from the right. Uses a lot of space and asphalt for sure.

    Wasn't aware of the Long John Silvers workaround. Noted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ötzi View Post
    Yeah Bmills except the ones I've seen in Jersey you have to exit to the right, then it loops back. Uses a lot of space and asphalt for sure.
    You'd love going to the Wegmans on Rt 10.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Timberridge View Post
    You can't merge onto Rt 7 in Troy during peak gettin' home from or going to VT hrs of 4:30 to 7:00 pm. You may as well pitch a tent at Teds Fish Fry if you don't use the turning lane. I've tried.
    So you're saying get a boner or use the center turn lane?

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    I use the same 191 bunion mentioned. Pretty much have to use the suicide ln parts of the day or you'll be waiting 10min plus for a 2 way gap to pull out.

    The big sky traffic is something to behold.

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    I guess the fish at Ted's is pretty special.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ötzi View Post
    I guess the fish at Ted's is pretty special.
    See the Upstates thread.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    How have I not heard of this fish?

    Quote Originally Posted by ötzi View Post
    and there you have it
    Heh. I started to list some of the regional differences that I could remember, then thought what am I doing? nobody cares! Apparently they do. It's funny what has legs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BmillsSkier View Post
    You would love driving in Michigan.
    Telegraph Road, REPRESENT!


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    Anyone have any experience with the “Diverging Diamond Interchange”? I think they start on this one later this year. Supposed to flow better once people know how to use them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flounder View Post
    Anyone have any experience with the “Diverging Diamond Interchange”? I think they start on this one later this year. Supposed to flow better once people know how to use them.

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    yep, there's one in Superior just south of here. Works well. Doesn't even take that much getting used to (other than having to remember that your exit may be on the opposite side of the road). But it's not a confusing interchange, it's pretty straightforward.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flounder View Post
    Anyone have any experience with the “Diverging Diamond Interchange”? I think they start on this one later this year. Supposed to flow better once people know how to use them.

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    Those are all over any new highway and/or overpass construction in ATL. They work well but are a little offputting when you come over the slight rise and you're staring 4 lanes of oncoming traffic in your face before you realize they're stopped.

    The extra fun ones have a traffic roundabout just before or just after them.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danno View Post
    yep, there's one in Superior just south of here. Works well. Doesn't even take that much getting used to (other than having to remember that your exit may be on the opposite side of the road). But it's not a confusing interchange, it's pretty straightforward.
    I believe they put one at the western Business-70 exit in Grand Junction as well... it was a little disconcerting the 1st time I used it...

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    Growing up in Detroit where there were few if any left turn lanes to turn into I learned from my dad that to make a left from our street onto busy 7 Mile Road you pull halfway across the road when there is a break in traffic from the left and then wait for a break in traffic from the right to finish the turn. I used that one in Reno the other day where there was gridlocked traffic due to an accident or police action on a main street--I don't know which. I pissed the hell out of a lot of people. Little did those folks know that they were in a hurry to get to an intersection where the cops were turning people around.

    Detroit also had a lot of busy intersections where there were no left turns during rush hour. You had to drive a block past the intersection and make 3 rights to make a left. Or you could do what my mother did--make 4 rights because you decided you didn't want to make a left after all.

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    Turns out in Truckee the cops don't like you driving for 200 yds the wrong way on the left shoulder to get to the lumber yard (old location) when traffic is backed up going into downtown. I told the cop I didn't realize the lumber yard was so far. He said, c'mon, you're a local, you know better. Which is the nicest thing anyone ever said to me in Truckee. And I got away with a warning.

    In Truckee the way you make a left from a side street onto Donner Pass Rd is to wait for a car coming from the right with no one behind them and then pull out in front of them with just enough time for the other car to slam on the brakes, then you drive as slow as possible while you finish your conversation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ötzi View Post
    I guess the fish at Ted's is pretty special.
    Quote Originally Posted by BmillsSkier View Post
    See the Upstates thread.
    Ask for the mutant sea bass.
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    Quote Originally Posted by byates1 View Post
    I use the same 191 bunion mentioned. Pretty much have to use the suicide ln parts of the day or you'll be waiting 10min plus for a 2 way gap to pull out.

    The big sky traffic is something to behold.
    Yep and summer hasn't begun yet. Construction begins tomorrow from MM 48-60. So just south of Big Sky to nearly 35 MPH Bridge.

    I am still amazed that I lived in my hood for 10 years before the State broke down and gave us a center turn lane.
    I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ted Striker View Post
    When I mentioned recent transplants I was commenting on the relative aggression, not the rules.

    The law in WA is a little different than other places I've lived. You can't use it as a passing lane, nor travel more than 300 feet, but you can make a left turn into it, and merge from there.
    That Washington law is what I thought was correct usage in New England, as well. I'm too lazy to Google it right now, but I was under the impression that it was reasonable to travel in it before or after your left turn so you could then get back into the travel lane. I'll try to remember to look that up before the next time I go somewhere that has one.

    I've also heard them called suicide lanes, which seems appropriate if you're using it as a regular travel or passing lane.

    Editing to add: and when I hit reply, I assumed the thread had moved to another subject after a few posts, not continued on center turn lanes for most of three pages. Would not have guessed.
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    The lane in question adjacent to Ted's Fish Fry. One can see in the picture a black pickup attempting to merge. If this was a Friday night during Lent, you can imagine the challenge.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Timberridge View Post
    The lane in question adjacent to Ted's Fish Fry. One can see in the picture a black pickup attempting to merge.
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    Is Dinner Thyme that restaurant where the owner got all pissy with the average review he got on Yelp in the other thread?
    I still call it The Jake.

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    No, that's farther upstream.

    I'm not familiar with Dinner Thyme, but looks like it has good reviews. One person was obviously unhappy though, but doesn't mention why.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=dinn...49b9191ae,1,,,
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    Quote Originally Posted by Timberridge View Post
    No, that's farther upstream.

    I'm not familiar with Dinner Thyme, but looks like it has good reviews. One person was obviously unhappy though, but doesn't mention why.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=dinn...49b9191ae,1,,,
    Huh, looks like local expert Rocky HD has some explainin to do. The rest of the reviews do look good.
    I still call it The Jake.

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    Yeah, he/she/ze gave the McDonalds down the street a scathing review as well. Some people are just miserable pricks.
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    Rocky's a dick.

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