This of changing highway exit numbers. 30 years the I-95 exit numbers through RI have been 1-30. Now they start at 18 because... reasons?
I'd guess it's something I've argued about with relatives for years. In most of the country, the exit numbers reflect the number of miles from the beginning of the route. The second exit isn't 2, it's 24 if it's 24 miles from the start. That system makes much more sense to me, as it tells you how far you are from the exit you're heading for. For some reason, many states on the East Coast just number exits sequentially, providing the driver with no distance information.
Yeah, I get the logic. But after 30 years of driving through sequential exits, my hard drive isn't taking the upload. And I've never made attention to the exit names, so when I think I'm crusing up to exit 16 and it's now 28, well... guess it's back to GPS.
My vote is going to be that a local member of congress was dissatisfied with the service at an un-named local restaurant, and decided to screw with their management by restructuring the state’s highway system. Either that or the state had some leftover Covid money they had to either spend or give back.
https://www.kake.com/story/47453430/man-dies-in-crash-after-gps-directs-him-off-bridge-that-washed-away-in-2013-family-says
That's because many of the highways in the northeast were originally built as state roads, before the interstate highway system came into being. The change to the interstate system created some other amusing issues, as well. Back when I spent a lot of time on the road and had a CB radio in all my vehicles, what was originally the Connecticut Turnpike ran roughly parallel to the coastline of Connecticut -- which runs essentially east-west. So at every entrance, there would be signs reading "Connecticut Turnpike East -- Rhode Island" or "Connecticut Turnpike West -- New York." And then the Connecticut Turnpike was absorbed into the Interstate system and became I-95. But I-95 runs from the south of Florida north to the woods of Maine, so the Connecticut Turnpike east became I-95 north -- even though a compass would tell you that you were clearly driving almost exactly due east. For truckers who were new to the area it caused a lot of confusion, and some interesting chatter on the CB radio. Some of the northeast states have begun renumbering their interchanges based on the distance from the state line, but they haven't all done so.
If I hadn't already determined to avoid doing so, I would now make a note to avoid driving in the northeastern United States.
My daughter made the mistake of driving a rental car in Boston back when she was trying to see all fifty states before she was 25. She waxes profane about the experience to this day, and she was used to Denver traffic. (She made it to all states but Alaska and North Carolina, and has since added North Carolina to the tally.)
That's quite an accomplishment. To see all of Canada, we only have 10 provinces and 3 territories. The only province I have not been to is Newfoundland (really want to go) and I have yet to visit the territories.
I drove a rental car in Boston on the way from the airport to Bar Harbor Maine. To this day I have nightmares about it; of course, that was also my first experience of a roundabout.
Roundabouts lead straight to hell. I took one there. I know. It is. She is a determined sort of person and loves to travel. She has also been to Ireland, England, Scotland (and don't give me any nonsense about United Kingdom; I'm a Murican and I don't care about the Acts of Union), several provinces in Canada, one state in Mexico, Iceland, Japan, and Thailand. Seems like I'm forgetting one or two places, but I lose track. She isn't thirty yet. Things that annoy me but shouldn't: being at work when I really, really need a nap.
I think her favorite is always the next place she's planning to go. She loved Oregon and Hawaii- my water baby packed two tee shirts, a pair of jeans, a jacket, and six swimsuits when she visited the latter. She jumped out of a plane over the big island, something she has wanted to do since she realized it was possible. We both really liked the areas around Glencoe and Stirling, Scotland, but shared what I can only describe as a fiercely atavistic negative reaction to the Isle of Skye. I expected to like Skye very much, so having the place give us the screaming mimis was a surprise.
Seems to me that if you shoot five people to death, you give up any expectation of anonymity because you're a minor.
My friends reported a similar reaction to Mont St. Michel in France. That surprised me because it looks so great in photos. It turns out my family is from the area of St Michael's Mount in Cornwall, (which apparently is called Karrek Loss yn Koos in Cornish.) I've always wanted to see it, but now I wonder. Maybe I'll find out I was a human sacrifice there in a past life.
It’s a dual purpose thing. First he hasn’t been convicted of anything, let alone charged. So in keeping with the innocent-untill-proven-guilty notion, they don’t want to vilify a 15 year old in the press before the investigation is even complete. Second, there’s a growing fear that giving these nut jobs press runs the risk of encouraging like minded people to go from brooding to action. I can see both points, but I still have no sympathy for the kid. You can’t go shooting at people like that and not expect someone to shoot back.
I wouldn't disagree, but in a case where the shooter is captured (and was shot himself) on the scene, rifle in hand, I might make an exception. If he lives, he'll certainly be tried as an adult. I've always thought that if the press would just report the basic facts of a crime like this and refuse to give these people the attention they crave, we should see fewer instances of this kind of thing. (BTW, shouldn't it be 'innocent unless proven guilty'?)
