Who could have thought that the wisdom of Lao-tsu, in the Tao Te Ching, could be applied to traffic safety engineering?
Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be.
….If you don’t trust the people, you make them untrustworthy.
I had read of the shared space concept and it's successes but dismissed it as unworkable in our self absorbed society. It would be an interesting experiment to remove all traffic signs and controls in Baldwin and see how our population got along.
I must confess the yellow flashing light didn't convey the intended message to me. Last night I came upon it in the dark and didn't see the young couple wanting to cross until I was making the turn there. Had I been able to see them I would have yielded and stopped but what are the odds the traffic from the other direction would also stop? Seems to me it should be red not yellow. Run down the pedestrian at a cautious slower speed? I don't think this is a safe solution to pedestrians crossing there, a full blown stoplight at the intersection being the only real solution. Change my vote on the poll. I've worked in a orange vest and around orange barrels before and the orange has the same effect on motorists that loosecaboose noted for the yellow, except it also seems to anger people at the same time. Must be the red component in the orange color.
Cutting emergency services is about as short-sighted a mind set as there is Torch. The crew here wasn't close enough to save a friend out in the country. The entire town would be in the same jeopardy if our help had to come from Lawrence. Crimony.
No, five dollars isn't much but wait till you get the bill for the court costs. Remember too that the courtesy warning for failure to keep right except to pass expires today. You'll now be ticketed and I don't think it's a measly five dollars, more like $60 plus court costs.
If you can view everything you want via internet then I'm happy for you, but I dont' believe I could. Contractual agreements block a lot of broadcasts from being put on the internet in real time. CenturyLink does offer a 10.0M tier for those who can receive DSL. Would be nice to get that 10.0M all the time instead of sharing MC's bandwidth. To get it would require bundling with a landline($70+tx/fees) and with TV($125-180+tx/fees) ends up being more than MC charges. Is it really necessary to charge $8 a day? The two drop-outs today were very annoying, once again. They wasted a service tech's time coming out here, and ordering a reburying of our cable isn't going to fix their problems. I'd just like an honest answer to why the service isn't consistent right now.
I have to play the devil's advocate here, I've run logs and found the service is up over 99.99% of the time. The down time just sticks out when it happens. It seemed to me there'd been a pretty long run of very few outages(save the couple of cables cut through) till their recent fiber optic problems, which have been an annoyance but were resolved fairly quickly each time. I too am curious about the up/down speeds as Direct TV seems to be the way to go once we get a HD tv. DTV and switch to DSL perhaps for internet...
You would think the City would have some minimum standard of condition. Call Taco Bell at 800-822-6235 and tell them about it. The Company has more than a little leverage with the franchisee. If GE Capital Franchise Finance Corporation of America is the owner's finance source I know they'd like to hear about the sorry shape things are in. As far as the help goes, I gave up on the place a couple of years ago when one tiny drive thru order overwhelmed the three workers and I was ignored at the counter for an inordinant amount of time. The lot was the pits back then and I can't imagine how much worse it must be now.
She's one of the more profligate abusers of the franking privilege in the house. Worst part of the mailings beside the wasted tax money is the fleeting glimpse of Jenkins sneering ugly mug as it goes in the trash. Boyda signed a no robocalling pledge while Jenkins has no qualms about annoying you during Sunday dinner.
What's your favorite breakfast cereal?
Bite size frosted shredded wheat.
August 20, 2010 at 10:39 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Do you think there needs to be a stoplight at the intersection of Eighth St. and U.S. 56 Highway?
Who could have thought that the wisdom of Lao-tsu, in the Tao Te Ching, could be applied to traffic safety engineering?
Stop trying to control.
Let go of fixed plans and concepts,
and the world will govern itself.
The more prohibitions you have,
the less virtuous people will be.
….If you don’t trust the people,
you make them untrustworthy.
I had read of the shared space concept and it's successes but dismissed it as unworkable in our self absorbed society. It would be an interesting experiment to remove all traffic signs and controls in Baldwin and see how our population got along.
August 7, 2010 at 4:29 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Do you think there needs to be a stoplight at the intersection of Eighth St. and U.S. 56 Highway?
I must confess the yellow flashing light didn't convey the intended message to me. Last night I came upon it in the dark and didn't see the young couple wanting to cross until I was making the turn there. Had I been able to see them I would have yielded and stopped but what are the odds the traffic from the other direction would also stop? Seems to me it should be red not yellow. Run down the pedestrian at a cautious slower speed? I don't think this is a safe solution to pedestrians crossing there, a full blown stoplight at the intersection being the only real solution. Change my vote on the poll.
I've worked in a orange vest and around orange barrels before and the orange has the same effect on motorists that loosecaboose noted for the yellow, except it also seems to anger people at the same time. Must be the red component in the orange color.
August 7, 2010 at 7:51 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Officials: Baldwin City ambulance staff won’t be cut
Cutting emergency services is about as short-sighted a mind set as there is Torch. The crew here wasn't close enough to save a friend out in the country. The entire town would be in the same jeopardy if our help had to come from Lawrence. Crimony.
July 17, 2010 at 1:03 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Fine for not buckling up goes into effect today across state
No, five dollars isn't much but wait till you get the bill for the court costs. Remember too that the courtesy warning for failure to keep right except to pass expires today. You'll now be ticketed and I don't think it's a measly five dollars, more like $60 plus court costs.
July 1, 2010 at 3:36 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Mediacompost
If you can view everything you want via internet then I'm happy for you, but I dont' believe I could. Contractual agreements block a lot of broadcasts from being put on the internet in real time.
CenturyLink does offer a 10.0M tier for those who can receive DSL. Would be nice to get that 10.0M all the time instead of sharing MC's bandwidth. To get it would require bundling with a landline($70+tx/fees) and with TV($125-180+tx/fees) ends up being more than MC charges. Is it really necessary to charge $8 a day?
The two drop-outs today were very annoying, once again. They wasted a service tech's time coming out here, and ordering a reburying of our cable isn't going to fix their problems. I'd just like an honest answer to why the service isn't consistent right now.
June 27, 2010 at 5:14 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Mediacompost
I have to play the devil's advocate here, I've run logs and found the service is up over 99.99% of the time. The down time just sticks out when it happens. It seemed to me there'd been a pretty long run of very few outages(save the couple of cables cut through) till their recent fiber optic problems, which have been an annoyance but were resolved fairly quickly each time.
I too am curious about the up/down speeds as Direct TV seems to be the way to go once we get a HD tv. DTV and switch to DSL perhaps for internet...
June 24, 2010 at 12:57 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Dear Lynn Jenkins
The Pentagon is calling you Still_Pool? She's now the deputy assistant secretary of defense for manpower and personnel issues.
May 17, 2010 at 9:37 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Taco Hell
You would think the City would have some minimum standard of condition. Call Taco Bell at 800-822-6235 and tell them about it. The Company has more than a little leverage with the franchisee. If GE Capital Franchise Finance Corporation of America is the owner's finance source I know they'd like to hear about the sorry shape things are in. As far as the help goes, I gave up on the place a couple of years ago when one tiny drive thru order overwhelmed the three workers and I was ignored at the counter for an inordinant amount of time. The lot was the pits back then and I can't imagine how much worse it must be now.
May 16, 2010 at 10:59 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Dear Lynn Jenkins
She's one of the more profligate abusers of the franking privilege in the house. Worst part of the mailings beside the wasted tax money is the fleeting glimpse of Jenkins sneering ugly mug as it goes in the trash.
Boyda signed a no robocalling pledge while Jenkins has no qualms about annoying you during Sunday dinner.
April 26, 2010 at 4:32 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )