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Building in Irvine: Too Fast and I?m Furious
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Unfortunately you can't control the person right behind your car. The soccer mom driving her Cadillac Escalade has a stopping distance of around 130 feet from 60 mph. That doesn't include the poor reaction because she was checking her Facebook account with her iPhone. By the time her 2.5 ton vehicle comes to a complete stop, you and your pushrod would need some serious body work.
Also we keep saying pushrod but which one of these corvette's is it : )
I mentioned 70 mph , you conveniently used 60 mph (does make a difference btw) but maybe we should use 80 mph since that's the actual speed you claim you can achieve on these Irvine streets ...
That day is coming. It's already at 1 light cycle at some major intersections around 5:30pm... just wait.
But maybe that's why they've installed new cameras on the lights on major roads... so they can manually override the "smart" system.
They are going to have to widen the 5 freeway overpass on Jeffrey within 10 years (they did that to the Culver underpass at the 5 a few years ago).
Hmmm...NYC has a great mass transit system. West LA is getting one...Silicon Valley also has a light rail system and BART is getting extended to SJ.
Pretty much all the top metro areas have great transit systems.
/eyeroll
If you ask the average person in a foreign country if they've heard of New York, LA, Silicon Valley, chances are yes they have heard of them and may even know something about them. The same cannot be said of Irvine. It doesn't matter that some immigrants from one particular country favor Irvine. It doesn't matter that a handful of new money households have splurged on a high end car. That isn't what defines a world class city.
Seriously...I wrote:
that's why the eyeroll...Irvine is not a major metropolis...does not mean it's not in high demand.
Imagine them without the transit systems.
iacrenter
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Burn That Belly said:
Unfortunately you can't control the person right behind your car. The soccer mom driving her Cadillac Escalade has a stopping distance of around 130 feet from 60 mph. That doesn't include the poor reaction because she was checking her Facebook account with her iPhone. By the time her 2.5 ton vehicle comes to a complete stop, you and your pushrod would need some serious body work.
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iacrenter said:
Also we keep saying pushrod but which one of these corvette's is it : )
I mentioned 70 mph , you conveniently used 60 mph (does make a difference btw) but maybe we should use 80 mph since that's the actual speed you claim you can achieve on these Irvine streets ...
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paperboyNC said:
That day is coming. It's already at 1 light cycle at some major intersections around 5:30pm... just wait.
But maybe that's why they've installed new cameras on the lights on major roads... so they can manually override the "smart" system.
They are going to have to widen the 5 freeway overpass on Jeffrey within 10 years (they did that to the Culver underpass at the 5 a few years ago).
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Irvinecommuter
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Blame Irvine for failing to implement some sort of light rail/mass transit system.
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Liar Loan said:
Hmmm...NYC has a great mass transit system. West LA is getting one...Silicon Valley also has a light rail system and BART is getting extended to SJ.
Pretty much all the top metro areas have great transit systems.
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Liar Loan said:
/eyeroll
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Irvinecommuter said:
If you ask the average person in a foreign country if they've heard of New York, LA, Silicon Valley, chances are yes they have heard of them and may even know something about them. The same cannot be said of Irvine. It doesn't matter that some immigrants from one particular country favor Irvine. It doesn't matter that a handful of new money households have splurged on a high end car. That isn't what defines a world class city.
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Liar Loan said:
Seriously...I wrote:
that's why the eyeroll...Irvine is not a major metropolis...does not mean it's not in high demand.
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irvinehomeowner
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I don't think public transit will reduce traffic.
Has it done that for any other cities with "world class" transit systems?
Has it done that for any other cities with "world class" transit systems?
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irvinehomeowner said:
Imagine them without the transit systems.