"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95)
04/26/2019 at 09:21 • Filed to: None
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"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95)
04/26/2019 at 09:21 • Filed to: None | 5
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The first, and one of the only things I noticed was the lack of potholes.
Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/26/2019 at 09:25 |
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Gee, I didn’t know they had Photoshop back in the ‘40s... :P
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/26/2019 at 09:28 |
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That's because the roads were new in the 40's. And they haven't been touched since.
Aremmes
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
04/26/2019 at 09:28 |
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The Soviets invented Photoshop, y’know.
vondon302
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/26/2019 at 09:28 |
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Well no wonder they still hab the trolley running.
My X-type is too a real Jaguar
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/26/2019 at 09:43 |
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Kodachrome was an outstanding film stock.
i86hotdogs
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/26/2019 at 09:48 |
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There was a photo around the internet last year of an aerial shot of a Detroit neighborhood in 2008 and 2018. The improvement was impressive. Sure, they still have eons to go...
TahoeSTi
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04/26/2019 at 09:51 |
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Contrary to popular belief roads are normally built with out, but then as traffic increases pot holes form to release heat and built up gasses...much like drilled rotors.
phenotyp
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/26/2019 at 10:00 |
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Hey, that’s the Park Shelton! Looking north on Woodward ave, next to the Detroit Institute of Arts, I lived there for four years.
ttyymmnn
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/26/2019 at 10:08 |
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It’s my understanding that Detroit was once a very nice place.
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> vondon302
04/26/2019 at 10:28 |
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Yeah, and then they paved over the tracks, and then for some odd reason, felt the need to install new tracks for a new trolley that doesn’t meet its ridership goals. If only they had a way to convey large groups of people down the road without the need to ride on a track....
facw
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04/26/2019 at 10:30 |
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From Google Earth
Or a lower view via Street View:
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> TahoeSTi
04/26/2019 at 10:31 |
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Nah, typically it’s from the sub grade failing or the surface is so beat up that water makes its way into the sub grade to make it fail. Then you add in that freeze/thaw cycles and you get the current state of Michigan roads.
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TahoeSTi
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04/26/2019 at 10:38 |
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nope it’s just like brake rotors then the holes rust and start to crack.
jimz
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
04/26/2019 at 10:44 |
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this.
that actually goes for most of the country. so much of our infrastructure was built up during the post-war boom, and it’s all getting old at the same time.
apparently people didn’t have any problem paying taxes to build the shit, but ask them for funds to repair or replace it and they turn into grabby little infants. “NO! MINE!”
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vondon302
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04/26/2019 at 10:48 |
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Don’t get me started on that new “trolley”.
I wonder how many buses they could have bought with that boondoggles money.
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jimz
> i86hotdogs
04/26/2019 at 10:51 |
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I have to wonder what neighborhood that was. there’s still pockets of nice areas, but Palmer Woods is an outlier. In contrast, here’s where we lived when I was real little. The flat we lived in is circled. Those blocks used to be completely full of houses:
and here’s what’s left of the neighborhood my grandparents lived in when they moved to Michigan.
Milky
> facw
04/26/2019 at 10:59 |
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You beat me! But its actually nice that a lot of the area is still the same.
Nick Has an Exocet
> TahoeSTi
04/26/2019 at 11:47 |
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Dogs roll around in the dirt to supplement their mineral intake.
AMC/Renauledge
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
04/26/2019 at 12:32 |
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It’s amazing what can happen with infrastructure when there’s a growing employment and tax base in the region.
Once the freeways were built and Detroit’s manufacturers discovered they could lower their overhead by building new plants outside city limits and, thus, the reach of city taxes... and once the rest of the world caught back up with American manufacturing and automation advanced, making workers redundant, the tax base started to shrink.
The late ‘40s/early ‘50s in Detroit were probably its zenith before things started on their downward trajectory.
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If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> jimz
04/26/2019 at 21:40 |
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Shit, I’d buy a whole block for pennies on the dollar
ranwhenparked
> jimz
04/26/2019 at 21:43 |
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The trouble is the taxes don’t always go where they’re supposed to. Look at Pennsylvania - $4 billion in extra gas taxes specifically to rebuild infrastructure, and almost $2.5 billion of it went to the State Police instead, to fund policing in towns without their own police forces - which they claim costs $600 million a year. Why you need $2.5 billion to cover something that costs $600 million is another question.
Now, the state I live in now actually has a law on the books stipulating that transportation-related revenues have to be spent on transportation-related expenses, and our (state maintained) roads are pretty much universally in excellent condition.
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ranwhenparked
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04/26/2019 at 21:45 |
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That was also when Detroit had almost 1.9 million residents and the wealthiest middle class in America, with that kind of tax base, you can do a lot of things that you can’t with 673,000 people and a poverty rate of almost 35%.
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> vondon302
04/26/2019 at 23:02 |
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No doubt. I’ve ridden it exactly twice and probably never will again. That’s when it was free too. If it actually went up to 8 mile then maybe they’d have something, but even then, once you make it run on the same streets as traffic and lights, there is no reason a bus wouldn’t be better.
ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy
> Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
05/31/2019 at 15:26 |
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Traffic then =/= traffic now