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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2200 on: January 09, 2018, 02:53:09 PM »
Well, a little inconvenience today, and then everyone would be able to park mentschlich.

The way this city, that advocates anything but private car usage as means of transportation, treats its pedestrians is a total disgrace! The crews should be out there making sure every crosswalk is fully and comfortably accessible.

It needs to start with ticketing ppl that do not shovel their sidewalks.
Most of non cleared sidewalks are empty homes or lots belonging to investors waiting to build.

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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2201 on: January 09, 2018, 02:58:57 PM »
It needs to start with ticketing ppl that do not shovel their sidewalks.
Most of non cleared sidewalks are empty homes or lots belonging to investors waiting to build.
Can't talk about most non-cleared sidewalks, but I did happen to walk on a certain block in Crown Heights (100% Jewish) that has narrower sidewalks than other streets (about half the width of the sidewalk in front of my house), yet almost all the houses had just a path shoveled, rather than the entire sidewalk. On that same block, I have found it in the past non-practical to walk due to shrubbery protruding and obstructing people from using the sidewalk, even as an individual, let alone holding a child's hand or pushing a baby carriage.

Must be something in the water on that block.
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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2202 on: January 09, 2018, 04:41:56 PM »
I thought about this issue a whole lot, especially recently. The way it is, ASP under such conditions is hard to enforce. If, however, there is a set system in place where the first day beginning after x amount of hour from when the snow stops falling ALL cars from the even side of the street should double park on the opposite side for an hour or so, and on the following day all cars from the odd side should double park halfway across, then it's something fairly doable. Of course the exact logistics have to be carefully worked out, but once it's systematized it can work beautifully like clockwork.

That's maybe when NYC will begin competing with Beachwood.  ;)
Who knows? Maybe @Dan will move here one day!  :D

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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2203 on: January 09, 2018, 04:46:07 PM »
I thought about this issue a whole lot, especially recently. The way it is, ASP under such conditions is hard to enforce. If, however, there is a set system in place where the first day beginning after x amount of hour from when the snow stops falling ALL cars from the even side of the street should double park on the opposite side for an hour or so, and on the following day all cars from the odd side should double park halfway across, then it's something fairly doable. Of course the exact logistics have to be carefully worked out, but once it's systematized it can work beautifully like clockwork.

That's maybe when NYC will begin competing with Beachwood.  ;)
Who knows? Maybe @Dan will move here one day!  :D
If there is all that snow then how would they double park and still have room for the plows?
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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2204 on: January 09, 2018, 04:48:57 PM »
If there is all that snow then how would they double park and still have room for the plows?
Once the middle of the roadway is clear, that's where they'll park. There's enough room for the plow to pass. A standard road is 3 comfortable lanes.

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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2205 on: January 09, 2018, 06:46:56 PM »
I thought about this issue a whole lot, especially recently. The way it is, ASP under such conditions is hard to enforce. If, however, there is a set system in place where the first day beginning after x amount of hour from when the snow stops falling ALL cars from the even side of the street should double park on the opposite side for an hour or so, and on the following day all cars from the odd side should double park halfway across, then it's something fairly doable. Of course the exact logistics have to be carefully worked out, but once it's systematized it can work beautifully like clockwork.

That's maybe when NYC will begin competing with Beachwood.  ;)
Who knows? Maybe @Dan will move here one day!  :D
So every driver in NYC needs to be available at the exact same time?

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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2206 on: January 09, 2018, 06:59:55 PM »
When you are having a lot of fun on a thread then it gets deleted.
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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2207 on: January 09, 2018, 07:02:27 PM »
When you are having a lot of fun on a thread then it gets deleted.
+1m. Can we at least finish our theoretical argument?

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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2208 on: January 09, 2018, 07:08:02 PM »
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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2209 on: January 09, 2018, 07:08:55 PM »
So every driver in NYC needs to be available at the exact same time?
If it's a predetermined time? Why not? Everyone knows that the first 10am that is at least x amount of hours after the snowfall ends they have to move their cars. I don't see a problem with that. How is that different than regular ASP?

Have you ever been to Canada? Over there the crew arrives, blows a horn and any car remaining after a couple minutes gets towed. The snow gets blown into dump trucks and carried away.

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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2210 on: January 09, 2018, 07:12:12 PM »


If it's a predetermined time? Why not? Everyone knows that the first 10am that is at least x amount of hours after the snowfall ends they have to move their cars. I don't see a problem with that. How is that different than regular ASP?

Have you ever been to Canada? Over there the crew arrives, blows a horn and any car remaining after a couple minutes gets towed. The snow gets blown into dump trucks and carried away.

ASP is on a few blocks at a time, not the entire city.

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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2211 on: January 09, 2018, 07:17:09 PM »

ASP is on a few blocks at a time, not the entire city.
If you are talking about people being prepared for it, I don't see a difference. If your problem is the city pulling off such a plowing in such a short time, I'm sure with a couple more trucks and proper planning it shouldn't be that difficult to pull off.

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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2212 on: January 09, 2018, 07:22:12 PM »
If you are talking about people being prepared for it, I don't see a difference. If your problem is the city pulling off such a plowing in such a short time, I'm sure with a couple more trucks and proper planning it shouldn't be that difficult to pull off.
If this is what you came up after thinking for a long time, what were the first ideas to come up? Blowing it away with straws?



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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2213 on: January 09, 2018, 07:24:52 PM »
If this is what you came up after thinking for a long time, what were the first ideas to come up? Blowing it away with straws?


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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2214 on: January 09, 2018, 07:25:43 PM »
If this is what you came up after thinking for a long time, what were the first ideas to come up? Blowing it away with straws?


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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2215 on: January 09, 2018, 07:26:21 PM »
Once the middle of the roadway is clear, that's where they'll park. There's enough room for the plow to pass. A standard road is 3 comfortable lanes.
So all side roads will be closed?

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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2216 on: January 09, 2018, 07:29:59 PM »
So all side roads will be closed?
Was referring to the one-way streets. On the 2-ways it's a similar idea. Not sure what you're asking.

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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2217 on: January 09, 2018, 07:32:36 PM »
When you are having a lot of fun on a thread then it gets deleted.

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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2218 on: January 09, 2018, 11:46:20 PM »
When everyone is talking about a deleted thread...
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Re: Master Thread of Pet Peeves
« Reply #2219 on: January 09, 2018, 11:54:21 PM »


When everyone is talking about a deleted thread that you missed all the fun in

FTFY
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