bimble

presumably the 8" is just enough that the majority of the smaller hire box trucks just clears the bridge and it's only going to be the larger stuff that gets caught

I seem to recall seeing a report after they were made compulsory in Poland (I think), in that traffic accidents did drop overall... however, the accident rate for more vulnerable road users (pedestrians/cyclists) rose, they think because they get lost in the lights when drivers are looking at the traffic. Almost certainly not helped by the trend to have really bright LED DRLs in cars these days

smart motorways "too complicated" for drivers... quite frankly, if looking at the road ahead of you and following the instruction of large, illuminated signs above you is too complicated, perhaps you shouldn't be behind the wheel at all... then again, we're 300 pages into a thread which shows that driving is beyond quite a few people...

They do. More recent videos (they changed it ~2017) show that the lights turn red to stop trucks to give them a chance to see the sign. There is at least one video of a truck blowing through the red light and then ripping the top off their trailer...

I travelled out of season (end of Oct) and my train was considerably shorter. This was from the observation at the back of the train... by Bimble, on Flickr

Keep in mind that being a regular train service, the Canadian might run during hours of darkness. The East bound train is only really in daylight hours from Blue River to Edmonton, and the West bound from Jasper to Kamloops. It's a fab trip, but if you are after scenery it might be an idea to look at the more touristy option, such as the Rocky Mountaineer...

overheard at the model train show this morning: "Billy, what train is that?" "It's an Intercity Dad." "No Billy, look, it says 'Virgin' on the side, it's a Pendolino" No Billy's Dad, Billy was right, it was an Intercity... circa late 90s, in Virgin's Cross Country livery...

I suspect if they're working on the crossing, trains will be warned before hand so will be approaching under caution, and the worker would be in contact with the signaller so would be informed if/when a train was approaching the crossing.

but three people would have gotten married...

As I wonder what 'stir fried Morning Glory with oil' is... and decide it's not something I'll google whilst at work...

didn't check the TV forum...

It won't... unless a car has queued across the tracks in the yellow box, so when the lights for the tram change to green they are unable to traverse the yellow box because they find a car that shouldn't be there. The tram's exit is clear, they are being stopped by a car illegally stopping in the junction.

I gotcha. I thought you meant the central reservation was removed, making it a single carriageway road, not a single lane dual carriageway.

If it's now a single carriageway, and it's "national speed limit", there is one of those for a single carriageway... and that's not 70mph...

The following talk about the Patriot was interesting... but did anyone else notice that Duck appears to have gained a leading bogie in this picture...??

Not the equator, Bloodhound (the, hopefully, +1000mph car) will be trying for the record at Hakskeen Pan in Northern Cape, South Africa...

It has been longer from the first spaceflight till now, than it was from the first airplane flight until the first spaceflight...

Not quite, because tides don't go straight out and then stay out till they come back in. They go continiously out, and once at their min, start coming straight back in. So the water is forever either flowing out, or flowing in. And the lagoon type plans retain water, and allow it out at a slower rate than the natural tide to keep the flow going through the turbines until the returning water is enough to generate electricity & refill the lagoon.

could be worse... the Heathrow expansion was proposed three years before HS2... at least they've made a start to HS2...

the £1.3bn price tag probably had something to do with that... though there is a new proposal in the works that comes in 30% cheaper, and with 10,000 homes...

or, and hear me out, members of the general public could obey the rules... it isn't hard not to be hit by a train...

Two from a trip to Scotland I took last month. The first is an unidentified DMU heading south, away from Rannock station The second is an unidentifed 66, heading south through the Cairngorms

When I was shooting the Scottish field champs last month (wow, only a month ago), I was talking about HS2 with one of the chaps in my shooting group. When I explained that the 'getting there 20 minutes faster' was only a fringe benefit, & explained about the increasing capacity, increasing frequency of semi-fast on the current west coast mainline his response was, "well, why don't they (HS2) ever mention any of this? I was kinda against it as a waste of money, but now I can see why they need it" Personally, I'm starting to wonder if the HS2 publicity department has been infiltrated by the StopHS2 crowd...

Not true, Ted Cruz was a Republican nominee in 2016, and was born in Calgary, Canada... "natural born" has been opened up to include being born to American parents.

meanwhile in Germany... it wasn't until they were give high-fives between the trains that I actually laughed out loud...