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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bonni Weatherwax" <(email redacted)>
To: "Nora Hague" <(email redacted)>; <(email redacted)>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Miata] "Other questions" about the 2006


>
> ***Does it snow there in the winter time?

ROTFLMAO!!! Does it snow??? Hey, this is the Great White Nawth, after all;
10 feet of snow is normal.

> If so, is it possible that they
> like using the removeable types to avoid people not slowing down in time
> because the snow is hiding them? I do wish they'd make speed bumps a
little
> lower here, too. I notice folks like me slowing down because I *have* to
.

I gather that's the reason for putting them in; so's their uncontrolled rug
rats can disport themselves in the middle of the road without learning to be
careful around cars. The city puts in the removable car-destroying bumps
because the street snow ploughs will rip them right out of the road, and
their bolts too, once the ice freezes around them.

> . . and my street car also is not lowered . . . but the punks in beater
> Oldsmobiles, etc., with plenty of clearance speed right on over them
without
> any thought of slowing down. So it's hardly working anyway, in a lot of
> cases. Speed bumps suck. :?

Indeed. Right on, there. Also, the vibrations caused by one of your
aforementioned beaters quite often causes long-term damage to basements and
foundation walls in houses around the bump. So we get people demanding a
speed bump (rather than teaching their children) then demanding the city
remove it (as their basements crumble.)

The city of Montreal, in fact the entire province of Quebec, has conceived
of a solution, though. Just don't repair the roads. The pot holes here are
large enough to swallow large trucks (and did so recently,) and I have no
idea how many accidents are caused by drivers desperately trying to avoid a
chasm that will break their wheels, axles and suspension. I regularly travel
with one wheel on the centre line and the other on the shoulder, avoiding
the pits in the ruts normally travelled. And that's on the Autoroutes, our
equivalent to your Interstates. The city/province cannot be sued for damages
because Quebec thoughtfully passed legislation banning repercussions, hence
any incentive to repair them.

And then the greenies get out there and protest any repairs made to the
roads because it'll encourage people to drive cars rather than use bicycles
or shank's mare. I wonder if they know how their veggies get to the
supermarket, eh?

It's a sick world out there, in more ways than one.

Nora (imagine a Canadian flag here)
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Mail From: nik586 (MH)

Nora Wrote:
"The city of Montreal, in fact the entire province of Quebec, has conceived
of a solution, though. Just don't repair the roads."

Finally caught up with Winnipeg, did you? <grin>

Marvin