Scott in SoCal wrote:
> On my way home from driving the Angeles Crest Highway last weekend, I
> took the Arroyo Seco Parkway for a few miles. As one of the first
> freeways in the country, designed for speeds of around 45 MPH and very
> little traffic, the on-ramps are ridiculously short and have stop
> signs at the beginning.
The off-ramps are just as bad but don’t have stop signs.
> Now, this isn’t a problem when your car can do
> 0-60 in 4 seconds, but how does someone like Bev, who drives an old
> 4-cylinder pickup truck, manage to merge onto the 110 without getting
> rammed?
Wuss! I’ve driven that thing for decades in all sorts of vehicles. You
just have to keep your eyes open. 4-cylinder? HAH! It’s an 8-cylinder
Dodge 318 for Chrissake, and they still make them!
> The Arroyo Seco must be an absolute *nightmare* during the morning
> rush hour…
Probably not — people it scares probably don’t drive it. For extra points,
where is the collapsing-radius curve? I honestly can’t remember, but I
think it’s near the high railroad bridge.
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Cheers,
Bev
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The Real Bev wrote:
> Scott in SoCal wrote:
>> On my way home from driving the Angeles Crest Highway last weekend, I
>> took the Arroyo Seco Parkway for a few miles. As one of the first
>> freeways in the country, designed for speeds of around 45 MPH and very
>> little traffic, the on-ramps are ridiculously short and have stop
>> signs at the beginning.
> The off-ramps are just as bad but don’t have stop signs.
>> Now, this isn’t a problem when your car can do
>> 0-60 in 4 seconds, but how does someone like Bev, who drives an old
>> 4-cylinder pickup truck, manage to merge onto the 110 without getting
>> rammed?
> Wuss! I’ve driven that thing for decades in all sorts of vehicles. You
> just have to keep your eyes open. 4-cylinder? HAH! It’s an 8-cylinder
> Dodge 318 for Chrissake, and they still make them!
>> The Arroyo Seco must be an absolute *nightmare* during the morning
>> rush hour…
> Probably not — people it scares probably don’t drive it.
This is what I like best about the Arroyo Seco Parkway, that the
clueless sloths tend to avoid it like the plague. It makes driving it a
very enjoyable experience.
- Peter
On Aug 22, 9:03 pm, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt…@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On my way home from driving the Angeles Crest Highway last weekend, I
> took the Arroyo Seco Parkway for a few miles. As one of the first
> freeways in the country, designed for speeds of around 45 MPH and very
> little traffic, the on-ramps are ridiculously short and have stop
> signs at the beginning. Now, this isn’t a problem when your car can do
> 0-60 in 4 seconds, but how does someone like Bev, who drives an old
> 4-cylinder pickup truck, manage to merge onto the 110 without getting
> rammed?
> The Arroyo Seco must be an absolute *nightmare* during the morning
> rush hour…
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> More reasons why PayPal SUCKS:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr_7–e5A1g
When I was a teenager in the ’70s I had a job fixing washing machines
in apartment buildings. I remember having 4 loaded on a ’66 Chevy
pickup with the six-banger (one was on the liftgate), doing one of
those on-ramps, with the smell of one of those buildings still in my
nostrils…
jg
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