Norcal Spotted and BS Thread

I prefer Utah and Arizona

 

when i was in the PNW i came up with a metric to demonstrate their shitty style of driving: MTBL - mean time before left. it's the count, in seconds, before the asshole in the left turn lane makes any forward progress at all. in CA, for example, if you go beyond a 2 (one-one thousand, two-one thousand) the vehicle behind you will become annoyed, perhaps yell or honk, but definitely notice the poor decision making and lack of pro-socialness demonstrated by the vehicle ahead. in Chicago, there will be a 1.75 count before you get a polite, 'hey, let's go buddy' honk. in the PWN the average time is about 3.25 seconds. so at any given light, at any time, you'll get, on average over three-Mississippi before the Prius ahead of you even moves. it's common for 6 vehicles to be in the left turn lane and only two get through the light. this is fact as shown by my science here.

how about San Jose, what's the metric here? how about average time at a light where there is no vehicle in the intersection. almost all of SJ traffic signals are on timers and the timers are set for high traffic times (presumably) where long signals are needed. this works most of the time because there is almost always high traffic. but when the traffic is not as heavy, and even when it is heavy the timing seems to be so poorly contrived that more often than not when you're sitting at a light in San Jose, there will be nobody proceeding through the intersection. check it out.

i don't have a number for San Jose waiting time because, in the end, i'm just trying to bitch here. but seriously, how many times do 14 vehicles need to be parked at an intersection with nobody fucking moving. c'mon horse shit infastructure. thanks for listening.

 

Saw that a couple days ago. Lame. Wouldn't surprise me if it was UTVs. I love those things.

 

i'm looking at a job in Glenwood Springs. it's w of Aspen.

 

I know in SF the lights are all timed superbly...poor. Light just turned green, alright we can go! Next light turns red. Goes on and on. Now when these streets are jam packed full of cars it’s a different story. Lights go about their business but they don’t turn green in an order that would help. So every block is full of cars right? Why in this situation does the very first light that we started at turn green first? And then each light after starts turning. None of the cars at the back of the line can go anywhere. By the time any of the cars have made space to move the light has already turned red.

 

i think you just defined 'clusterfuck'.

 

That stuff really pisses me off. Which brings me to this part of my Rubicon trip that upset me greatly. What with all the TREAD LIGHTLY, and leave it better than you found it, people are still losers. While we were camped at Bucks Island Lake Tuesday night I walked over to examine a camp spot that looked amazing. A rig had been in there when we first pulled up so we camped nearby, instead. Later the rig left the area so I walked through the grove of trees around the campsite at waters edge, I saw no less that 8 spots where people had taken a crap, and left toilet paper. Not even the decency to bury it, which by the way, is no great move in an area that sees thousand and thousands a year. And so close to the water. It's why jeep clubs built vault toilets all along the trail.

 

The whole city is

 

I had a front row seat to this sort of thing every day at my last job. The office was kitty corner to the trader joe’s/bed bath/nordy rack in SF, so every day right at about 430, there’d be a huge honking line of cars trying to get onto the 80 east, people thinking they’re better than others by merit of driving teslas cutting in and out, traffic coming from the freeway and throw in some pedestrians for good measure. Working at first and mission now, it’s not any better to be honest. The short blocks and people blocking the box constantly because they don’t wanna miss the light. I’m ready to find a new place where I can actually afford a home.

 

It’s SF. No need to do the job right. Just hire a meter maid and put them there for an hour to hold the (one) light green for 5 seconds longer. 80 is one giant cluster too. Poor design that they continue trying to keep updated.

 

This. The lady and I went camping the weekend after the 4th and the mess left at the site from the previous weekend was disgusting. Baby diapers, countless water bottle and beer bottle caps, trash from shitty fireworks, cigarette butts, etc. We spent the whole Sunday morning before we got on the road cleaning up. The first thing I said to her when we noticed the mess was that I bet it was Jeepers

 

Yeah, I wouldn't go that far and blame Jeepers. In this case no one else can get to that area but, I blame idiots, and those that let them do what they do. You'd think that by now everyone knows to keep it clean. Especially in an area that is so sensitive and gets so much activity.

 

The Jeep blame is just an East Coast thing for me. There's not as many places to wheel, not the same community for anything other than Jeeps, and not as many resources for anything besides Jeeps. So statistically, when you would see something like pollution on a trail not accessible to every vehicle, my first sense is to blame Jeeps. Not saying their all wrong, just saying that coming from the East Coast, that tends to be my experience. But again, we aren't on the East Coast.
I couldn't agree more with the comment about everyone knowing to keep areas clean and pollution free. It's ignorance to the obvious.

 

The people proposing solutions clearly have no idea what they’re talking about. Caltrain solves nothing. Neither do express lanes-it’s a crock of shit.

 

In Grass Valley

 

This non-Taco dude and all his stuff was spotted yesterday in the "thank god I don't normally drive here at this hour" stop and stop and stop and stop traffic on 280 in Los Altos...



edit: Also, the silver Taco ahead of me's spare tire was so loose that I thought it was going to fall off.

 

I was pretty fuckin disgusted walking around camp last weekend. People def need to pack their doo-doo paper out!!

 

Unbelievable. I pack it all out. I use the dog poop bags you find at the park. I take the poo and the paper out.