Transportation
How do eddy-current brakes work? – Explain that Stuff
Cable barrier – Wikipedia
A cable barrier, sometimes referred to as guard cable or wire rope safety barrier (WRSB), is a type of roadside or median safety traffic barrier/guard rail. It consists of steel wire ropes mounted on weak posts. As is the case with any roadside barrier, its primary purpose is to prevent a vehicle from leaving the traveled way and striking a fixed object or terrain feature that is less forgiving than itself.
Covid-19 road signs?
I hope if New York spends $8 million on Covid-19 road signs they at least follow the Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) so they don’t get dinged by the federal government. The MUTCD is no joke, you follow it or you get fined.
Yes, they can have a pretty Coronavirus icon on the signs but they must use FHWA series fonts of the proper size and proportion and must be colored blue with white text. Or possibly black on white if it’s regulatory.
Mass DOT is not messing around. A proper metal sign with reflective sheet background. Probably should last at least 20…
Posted by Andy Arthur on Thursday, May 7, 2020
Upgrade, Maintain Speed
As the signs on the Staten Island Expressway say …
British Rail’s short experiment with travelling pubs – ianVisits – London news and events
It’s May 1949 and British Rail was showing off its latest idea to please the public – a travelling pub.
Not a buffet car or restaurant, but a “tavern car” – a full on pub on wheels, in a mock-tudor appearance, with fake brick walls on the outside, and even a pub sign on the door.
How mid century British this seems.
NYSDOT Rest Areas Across NY
This helpful interactive map shows NYS DOT rest areas along the major interstates (excluding the New York Thruway) with bathrooms. A few of these rest areas are closed, but it will give you an idea which facilities are open. Tomorrow, I will do a map of Thruway Rest Stops. I was originally going to combine these into one map, but it turns out the DOT and Thruway Authority record information on their Rest Areas in a very different format.