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Endless miles of rumble strips

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Bob

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Seems to me the "nanny state" folks, in this case the NDDOT, have implemented a plan that is REALLY annoying to those of us who pull over width stuff or farm machinery down the pavement.

DANG those suckers shake the *&^% out of stuff!

They are a relatively new development up here in God's Country. How about where the rest of you guys are... are you blessed with the same "good idea"?
 
They are everywhere. Some states at least put them far enough off the road that they don't bother too much. Mo is the worst, they have them right on the white line in many places.
 
You have the right of way to use that road so make sure your flashing lites are on and slow down thats what i do
 
Every day, I travel for about 10 miles on a certain road near me. It has the strips on both sides of the road and in the middle. It is a narrow, winding, hilly country road. It's impossible to avoid the strips on corners or when meeting large vehicles.

Drives me crazy.

Tom in TN - near Burwood, TN
 
I think they are a great way of "discouraging" tailgators. I just drift over on the rumble strips, and knock some mud loose, and it sprays the tailgator. Also works when the road is dry but the strips are wet, you can make them hit their wipers!
 
What I don't like is the rumble strips around here are right in the white line, whereas they could be a foot or two farther out. What happens is when someone is coming toward you hugging the center line or a wide load and you need to get over a bit right away you're in that annoying rumble strip. We live near an overpass and cloverleaf and I hear vehicles, especially semi's, rumbling all the time around the curve, it's hard to avoid.
 
Most DOT"s have a web site, you can ask them things, notify them of hazards, you couild tell them how annoying their bright idea is.
Other thing, don"t assume that the way it was designed is the way it was installed. It might have bveen designed to be farther out, but guy driving the impacter thought it"d be easier on him to scooch it over.
 
when they widened the hiway here they put those in, about 2 inches off the white line, as well as too many gaurd rails and put them so close to the line a car wont even fit on the shoulder, for miles, if you have a break down your in trouble, no place to get the vehicle off the road, they also screwed up a bunch of irrigation ditches and underground piping, but thats what you get with the lowest bidder, idiots who have no idea what there doing
 
My hunting and fishing partner is very adept at finding those strips just as I am dozing off riding shotgun. Man, does that wake up in a hurry.
 

I could see that they would be annoying to those who have to run a tire on them, but I bet that they have awakened many drivers who were falling asleep and were drifting off the road. Granted tired people fall should be pulling off and resting and we could be weeding out more people that sleep too much, but many people who have people at home that love them are saved. Maybe even Bob has someone at home who loves him.
 
These days, many seemingly capable people are incapable of dressing themselves without the help or financing of others as well. Happens. With as fattening as fried chicken is, I'm surprised that hasn't become illegal. Maybe I oughta shut up before someone gets an idea for our own good on that too.

Mark
 
Here in Ohio too.

I wonder if they are more for texting and driving then sleeping ? Everyone is on those dang phones not paying attention !!!!!
 
NYS is apparently using Seneca County as a test bed. Last summer they came through and dug divots every two feet down the center line on every state highway in the county. Nothing on the outer white lines, just the center.
 
Tom I know where the center line one is. With the 18 wheeler it is almost impossible to not let a rear tire get on one. Have no problems with the side ones but that thing down the center line is awful.
 
I hate the ones down the middle. Maybe it's just my particular car, but it seems the car gets squirrely whenever I cross the center to pass someone.

I don't have much problem with the ones on the side. I'll admit it, they've brought my head back down out of the clouds a few times.
 
Here in WA State on 2 lane highways they are in the center on the interstates they are on both sides of each direction.

Leonard
 
I know exactly what you are saying. I pulled a 20' no-till drill home yesterday and had to straddle them while keeping the drill wheels out of the ditch.
 
jm I am not a big fan of rumble strips but when you have to run in bad weather at least you know if your on road or not. The freight line I worked for hauled a lot medical supplies and in real bad weather we were told to get rid of medical and forget about the general freight. We ran in conditions that nobody else would.
 
I pulled up to the jobsite one morning and at first glance wondered how a semi could have gotten mired in the median in August when it hadn't rained in three weeks. Then I figured out he wasn't stuck. He'd fell asleep and drove off in an approach pavement excavation that we were gonna pour that morning, and hit the 19" high exposed bridge abutment and tore EVERY axle out from under his truck. It was sitting flat on the ground like a beached whale. The poor guy had went to sleep and slowly veered left a half mile up the road, first just clipping the barricades, then finally hitting them head on and diving off in the hole at the bridge. The driver behind him said he tried everything to wake him up. Centerline rumble strips wouldn't have helped this guy, but it would help most folks. A lowboy with a wide load would drive you nuts, I agree.
 
Those rumble strips are one of best ideas in road construction ever developed. Impossible to know but they have alerted many drivers that might have driven off road an had a very serious accident .The are communitating the risk of being drousy --not paying attention ---or even being totally asleep at wheel.
 
I've been in road design-inspection and bridge construction-saftey inspector for going on 13 years. It's like everthing else folks, federal government mandates to states, counties and municipalities exactly HOW projects are engineered, "if you want the money your doing it OUR way". There are a stack design and rule books here in my office heavy enough one person couldn't carry them all. Safety and LIABILITY like everthing else. Build for the complete idiots in society. You and me drive on endless miles of 2 way roads without an issue-but interstates with a 8' inside shoulder, 2-12 lanes and a 10' outside shoulder along with a 20' wide median. STILL have to have wire crash barriers erected to keep people on thier OWN side. Till we eliminate tired and distracted drivers, basic stupidity, and mechanical failures, it's only getting worse.
 
Secretary moved to North Dakota so hubby could get work- she was back to visit, and said they use the rumble strips during white-out blizzards- wind keeps the road pretty clear of snow, but you can't see a thing, so stay on the road by use of the rummmmmmble strips.

She said you also get used to using your trip odometer to find your way home- "17.8 miles to the turn. Then reset- 1.6 miles to the driveway."
 
tomtirediron: "Build for the complete idiots in society."
Thanks for confirming my suspicions regarding the design criteria used for highways these days.
LOL.
 
Rumble strips are even worse on a motorcycle or a bicycle. Dollar for dollar they are very effective though. We will never know how many times they woke up a driver just before they would have caused an accident.
 
....and if it were'nt for the idiots , most in government would be unemployed. Then we would only have to pay them for a year and all the savings would repair all our roads/bridges etc. Isn't 'liberalism" great? (poof?)
 
SORRY, I should have been more specific... the situation around here I was trying to post about boils down to RURAL 2 lane highways in God's country that "see" more farm implements than cars and have a 55 MPH speed limit and see less than a dozen or two cars per day, yet we are stuck with the rumble strips that shake the snot out of our machinery.
 
(quoted from post at 22:42:01 05/21/13) Seems to me the "nanny state" folks, in this case the NDDOT, have implemented a plan that is REALLY annoying to those of us who pull over width stuff or farm machinery down the pavement.

DANG those suckers shake the *&^% out of stuff!

They are a relatively new development up here in God's Country. How about where the rest of you guys are... are you blessed with the same "good idea"?
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We do highway work in upstate New York. On the reservation we have to put the rumble strips in the center of the shoulder so the deer jackers don't have to ride the strip when cruising at nite.
 
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