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Re: Fighting the DOT S(BS) on Woodhaven Blvd |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Sep 16 10:29:53 2016, in response to Re: Fighting the DOT S(BS) on Woodhaven Blvd, posted by Cornell Park on Thu Sep 15 20:01:33 2016. I never realized I was knocking you down.In fact, I appreciated most of your comments. I was not the one who called your Neponsit parking lot idea a bad one. In fact I stated the contrary. I said it may be a better idea than my Riis Park idea since you wouldn't have to deal with the federal bureaucracy. Someone else brought up something about the deed. It wasn't me. I never fought you on that issue. As far as the person you referred to, yes he was defending me so why should I have feuded with him? Also, I did not pick and choose which posts to reply to. The fact is that during the last month until this week I have been spending much less time on this site. For two weeks I was off completely. Then when I got back on, I only had time to make to or three posts at a time because I just didn't have time to answer the 45 replies I would see, 30 of them being from Terrapin and another 12 from R 30A. Maybe I should just ignore both of them and reply only to people like you who really are interested in having legitimate discussions. I brought up the point about the 20 year old sign not mentioning it was 20 years old after someone made a comment that there is no problem with signage and it is unimportant anyway since practically everyone has GPS. So I first mentioned the sign in Atlantic City where I was at the time claiming "entrance" would have been clearer than "exit". When a bunch of people started insisting exit was the proper word I wanted to think of another example of confusing signage. It really didn't matter that the issue may have been resolved by now or the sign was 20 years old, because it was the idea that was important so I mentioned the 14 St Bridge sign in DC. That there should have been an indication that making that turn takes you into Virginia (like 14th Street Bridge Only) and it's like a two mile detour to get back. In fact the same thing happened to me a few years ago in Albany. There was no indication that making a turn sent you out of Albany into the next city. So when I was asked when I saw that sign in Washington and readers dismissed it because it was 20 years ago, I brought up the next example regarding a current sign pointing you to the Marine Air Terminal when in fact following that sign also takes you to the rest of LGA, the Grand Central and Astoria Blvd which are more important destinations than the Marine Air Terminal which few use anyway. The point still is that transportation agencies are far from perfect in signage with many unclear and confusing signage that can cause last minute decisions and accidents. A few made the point that local road signage is the worst. I would agree with that. I also stated I found interstate signage on the west coast to be much clearer than on the northeastern seaboard. The reason the conversation drifted so much from Woodhaven Blvd is some here believe they must contradict everything I post particularly Terrapin and R30A. |
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