Meanwhile in Ashland

"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures) 10/10/2019 at 18:29 • Filed to: Ashland

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It’s been a while since there’s been a good contribution to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , but the residents came back with a vengeance. Clearly they saw what the residents of La Grange, KY were up to last month and didn’t want to be outdone in the “Just Train Stupid” category.

CompactLuxuryFan > Dusty Ventures 10/10/2019 at 18:42

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Seems like a poorly designed crossing, actually. I hate people who cut lefts that much, but they would have been looking mostly at the pointy end of the barrier, and the train was coming from behind. So not the best situational awareness, but that crossing is not nearly as obvious as most from where the Jetta was approaching. They probably had to change their pants after giving that thing the beans.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Dusty Ventures 10/10/2019 at 18:49

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“I’m pretty sure he’s going to swerve.” --The drivers of those cars.

Where have all the lightweights gone? > CompactLuxuryFan 10/10/2019 at 18:54

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100% agreed. If someone’s allowed to make a left turn like that across the crossing, there should be double gates preventing turns like this.

At the very least, there should be a set of lights and a “no left turn” sign that comes on when the gates come down.

Dusty Ventures > CompactLuxuryFan 10/10/2019 at 18:57

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Fair, except that when there’s a train coming there’s a blinking light pointed at the road the Jetta came from that says “NO LEFT TURN”

Maxima Speed > Dusty Ventures 10/10/2019 at 19:01

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In the second video. What genius bought it was ok to run a freakin TRAIN through Main Street?!?!

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Dusty Ventures 10/10/2019 at 19:01

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I also live in an Ashland which made me wonder how many States have towns named Ashland. 16. 16 states have towns name during Ashland. And I bet every single one of them is boring AF. 

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Dusty Ventures 10/10/2019 at 19:05

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That one in Kentucky, that’s just poor, or completely lack of civil engineering, like who biults a bunch of shops and stuff in a road with train tracks running through the them.

Wait, who builds a road on top of active train tracks?! 

Dusty Ventures > Maxima Speed 10/10/2019 at 19:17

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It’s more common than you think. Most states have at least one location with “street-running trains.”

In the case of towns like La Grange, the tracks were there first, long before cars existed. The town popped up around the tracks, and largely due to the tracks, so during the formation of the town it was only logical that the tracks would be the “main street. ” Shops and buildings were built alongside the tracks to serve the trains and the people riding them. Eventually the automobile was adopted and the town had to either relocate their town center away from the tracks or make it so that cars and trains share the main street.

Dusty Ventures > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 10/10/2019 at 19:19

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Every U.S. state and approximately 70 other countries?

Urambo Tauro > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 10/10/2019 at 20:33

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Two for flinching!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Dusty Ventures 10/11/2019 at 09:33

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HO LEE CRAP...

Did the car in the first click see the train before turning, or were they just oblivious until they were right in front of it?

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Dusty Ventures 10/11/2019 at 09:35

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Clearly need bars coming down on both sides to create an actual physical barrier (because people are idiots).