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Route 66 rumble strip that plays America the Beautiful when driven on at exactly 45 mph.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l2vSsavVZs
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...eo-photo-70471
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...810#post124446
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...390#post116750
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...338#post116485
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...8464#post87589
I wonder who the engineer was who figured out the exact spacing to grind the strips in the pavement .
Some rough textured roadway seem to play oh hell over and over again at certain speeds.
Has the look of New Mexico. I'd sure like to know the milepost on that one.
It's on rte 66 (highway 333) between Albuquerque and Tijeras NM. Rode on it last year. Strip is about 14" wide and easy to veer off.
Jon, REALLY??? :headscratch: Where do you find these things?? It is this type of "is he kidding or is he serious" posts that drag me back each day to see what you and others have dredged up for the day!
But seriously, I took my chocolate lab for a run, on an area of the Eglin AFB here in Florida, one afternoon and it happened that they had just resurfaced the 2 lane road feeding by this very large field used by the USAF for training of all sorts. This field is 2 miles long and a mile deep off of the road and is used for everything from parachute training to night ops training to close air to ground combat support with old tanks and vehicles setting at the northern end of the field. I was a half mile off the road and was enjoying the warmth of the afternoon when I hear this low growling RRRRRRRRMPH sound coming from behind me! I know that most of the readers here have heard this same exact sound on videos showing the uses for the A-10 Warthog in close air support drills and actual combat videos. That GAU 8 in the A-10's nose makes an unmistakable sound which strikes fear in the hearts of many enemy foot soldiers, [It's not called the "Equalizer" without reason].
I finally learned that this awesome sound that startled the bejeepers out of me since I am running my dog on a test firing range, among other uses, and my old beat up "woods" pickup could have easily been mistaken for a likely "target" for any pilot who was directed my way, was nothing more than the rumble strips placed on the center lines to warn drivers of their wandering into the oncoming lane when they are playing with their phones or trying to eat a Big Mac while trying to drive!!
At a speed of probably 60 mph or better, the sound of those rumble strips was a most chilling sound for a vet to hear no matter which military era he was akin to!! And the reaction that they evoked in a drowsy or otherwise non-attentive driver was just the right spacing for a realistic burst of fire from a nearby approaching Warthog!! Needless to say, it was my immediate plan, from that day on, to check with the "Jackson Guard" before taking my dog for a run, to make sure that there were no training sessions on that site!
Rather than awaken someone wandering, that one could put one to sleep or make one jump to attention loosing all road focus.
Spacing!
Thank you Jon.
That is clearer: originally I thought it was like many others that alerts driver that they are crossing the white or fog line. This makes much more sence now. Tourism boom & enjoy.
The song choice was great, having to drive on a rough strip along the road at a speed 20 MPH below posted not so great. I don't even play a radio when I'm driving and I sure wouldn't want my truck tires singing to me.
I didn't know that road is a 60 or 65mph (110 kph) zone. That would really peeve most drivers off being stuck behind someone "enjoying" the road noise: including me! ESPECIALLY ME!!!! Slow drivers cause impatience in the normally very good drivers: an accident waiting to happen. I thought it must have been near a town or high fatality/risk area.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
In Tasmania they have a 65kph (100/110 during daylight) limit at night for wildlife.
Actually I can't say for sure that the posted limit is 65 where they have the rumble strips cut in it. it could be just coming in or just leaving town or there could be a some scenic observation reason for the 45 MPH or any myriad of other reasons for them wanting you to drive 45 possibly so they can see how many tickets they can write. There are many roads in the USA just wraith with short reductions in the posted for no other reason but to write tickets. I know of some sections on our interstate highways right here in TX where the posted drops from 75 down to 60 for a couple of miles simply because there is a town located 2 or 3 miles off from the interstate no exit or on ramp within the reduced section but the interstate crosses through town's incorporated limits It is there purely as a means of collecting revenue. The state of New Mexico has these safety zones where you have to turn on your headlights during the daytime even though it is a divided 4 lane road.Quote:
Originally Posted by ranald
I don't know maybe they think everyone has daylight blindness and they need their headlights to see by
When a new highway near us (M1) was under construction there were so many changes (about 15) in a 5 kl stretch it was hard to focus on road users behaviour because of so many changes to speed limit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
I once told a retired cop (Snr sgt i think) friend of my friend, when sharing a beer, of my disbelief of an "end speed limit" (i.e.from 60 to 100 kph zone) within 1 k of a T where 3 young ones died ploughing into a very grassy embankment & killing all 3 instantly. No one had checked out why the car was doing about 105kph when it hit the wall of earth some years before. I had been using the back road for about a year to avoid traffic on the proper main road. In about a month after that discussion the end speed limit was removed and replaced with an *80 sign then approaching the T was a 60 then a Giant T sign with large arrows pointing each way showing where the road went.
we have many poor signage happenings here but one really needs to know someone with clout to get it changed. I was lucky by a chance meeting & I hope it saved some silly accidents.
the Highway that my road "T"s into is US 380 the posted is 75 MPH a good reasonable safe speed for our area, and the road in front of my house is 70, after all most of the traffic on it is only us locals anyway and we all know we have to share the road with our tractors. Even the seasonal Hunters from the big cities are mostly smart enough to know that when you are out in the country you abide by county rules signs or no signs. usually no signs and at night the animals are the magistrates Deer hogs Cattle a flock of wild turkeys. I live about 3/4 of a mile from the now village of peacock once a thriving metropolis in the 1930's of 300 people. there is a 90° bend in the road right at the edge of the village where it is not uncommon to have a real traffic jam. 2 tractors with folded up 60 ft wide plows still over 25 feet wide will meat each other in the bend. Once a cattle truck came barreling past my house soon I hear the sound of tortured tires on pavement. no insuring sound of disintegrating metal so I figured everything was fine but decided to hop in the UTV anyway for a look see what I found made me wish I had carried my phone or a camera with me 2 tractors with plows seeders and fertilizer rigs heading north taking up the whole road from ditch to ditch and a cattle truck trying to figure out who was going to have to back up. The trucker lost and had to back up all the way to my house before there was a place for him to pull off and allow the tractors to go by.Quote:
Originally Posted by ranald
Now there are signs on both ends of this road that say beware of tractors.
Maybe we need to see if they could make our road sing the farmer in the dell
70 Mph going into a T without an arc each way sounds scarey esp with tractors slowing from 30 or so to almost/or stationary & to have to negotiate the 90 deg bend. LOL="farmer in the dell" . Maybe our local T at the end of my 5 acres could ring "my old mans a dustman" except on gravel not asphalt. Spose it really already sings it with dust cloud to boot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
I was once skooting along a one lane (2 way) asphalt back road at about 75 when i spotted a large dragline buchet appearing over the horizon (thr next hill). It was way wider than the road. I broke & found an appropriate spot in the bushland and parked until it passed. In the early 70's we seldom had pilot vehicles for such loads in the country back roads. OHS nightmare now.They would have 1 pilot & 2 police escorts now.
there are no other signs to tell folks to slow down before coming into the bend in the road but not needed since if you live here you know a safe speed to travel have never seen anyone doing near 70 anywhere on this road except that 1 cattle truck Most country folks are smart enough to drive looking pretty far down the road we don't need no stinking signs
Visual polution! Did you hear a murmur from the cattle? I used to live at the bottom of a hill of a busy city rd and a T with traffic lights. (it wasn't a full T & a cemetery was adjacent) In the wee hours we 'd be awaikened by pigs and other animals squeeling as trucks would slam on the brakes for a red light. had to be going over the 60 kph limit:probably woke the dead. Funny it wasn't the exhaust brakes that made us jump & some were courteous not to use them.. Maybe the animal cries were from their knowing where they were going...the abattoir.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
Talking about being somewhere one shouldn't be, it was about 15 years ago in NJ there was a swampy section at the end of my property then a large hill to a large area of unimproved land.
When I would get home from work I would take both of my dogs for a long walk thru this area (going around the swamp). We had climbed the hill and were on the flat area of ground when I heard the three blasts from an air horn.
I Knew right away what was coming next.
About 75 yards in front of me a large section of ground lifted about 4' high then dropped back down, in another minute or two we would have been right on top of that ground!