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This is silly... Is there some road striping service looking for a government contract? It could be an asphalt cost cutting idea. If you believe in the supposed power of law, written by millenia of dead people that have never dreamed of living in our world, then you could just write another "law" commanding all bicyclists to ride in the middle of the lane for their safety and public safety... There is merit to narrow lanes and wide lanes. It's the uniformity that kills. I stare at road lanes all day long. Ideas of narrower and wider lanes has occured to me. Why not have both? When i carry wide-loads, the best strategy is to travel in the right-most lane and overhang into the shoulder for normal clearance/psycho-visual spacing for other vehicles in the passing lanes. On interstate highways, the emergency/shoulder lane goes unused for miles except for occassional emergency vehicle travel and the frequent break-down car waiting for it's owner's next paycheck to cover towing or roadside repair expenses. On town streets, where foot traffic is more prevalent, I've noticed that striping is used to subdivide a typical 12 foot lane into a medium and smaller lane for car and foot/pedal traffic. On city streets, I've notice 2 major types of roads. The most common 2-lane, 2-way rural/city road and the 3-lane, 2-way city street with the single, middle, "suicide/unprotected" lane with combined 2-direction turning and limited travel with occasional striping at intersections to regulate to middle lane into 1-direction left/turning lanes. On some New Jersey roads, I've notice a middle ground design between interstate highways and city streets. This road design eliminates the central turning/travel/suicide lane which also eliminates all left-hand turns. To restore full navigation, the left turns are replaced at major intersections with right exit lanes leading to small loop lanes which merge the traffic onto the perpendicular intersecting roadway to accomplish the left turns and u-turns together with the intersecting thru traffic at the signalized intersection. Many city streets have curbing or curb with guttering to handle the travel of water away from the travelway surfaces. Miles and miles of concrete go unused except for the occasional rainstorm or the secondary purpose of increased traffic regulation serving as a mild form of traffic control for protecting adjacent sidewalks/pedestrians, utility easements or landscaping against unwanted vehicle travel or departure from the paved travelway. Along most roadways, sidewalks are often neglected if not ignored completely on one or both sides of the roads. Due to extreme costs of building and maintaining roadways, pedestrian travel always suffer at the hand of vehicular "progress", and it's even illegal in some areas with "No Walking" signs at busy interchanges. However, walking is the QUEEN OF TRAVEL! She should be respected much more than she is. What if... Now hear me out... What if we could combine all of these ideas into more coherent forms of travel improvements for EVERYONE and not just vehicles? What commonalities between different road corridors can be improved or combined? What is your favorite typical road section? Do we need massive swaths of land on both sides AND the center of interstate highways just to contain the rare vehicle that departs from the established travelway? Can we maximize the effectiveness of travelways by exploiting differences in profile and elevation? The streets of tomorrow are just waiting to be designed! Will you be the one that improves the quality of life for billions of people all over the world? nostr:note1l8xh2c4qngj5ve7rehmzgfv2ym3n3cyghgvhdz59mm7tmrk8a8cspy72h6

I think that the true purpose of the great wall of "China" was an extremely expensive elevated defensible highway trade route... kind of like an ancient railroad. This would explain why an easily breachable earthen wall withstood "attacks" for centuries since any aggression would be towards the parties conveying the desired trade goods. The wall was of no interest to any faction or "side"... kind of like why you don't take a pick axe to the nearest highway bridge wall since you would much prefer to travel over it to buy the things you need for survival. Perhaps the ancient empire parade fleets would dock at the sea terminus of the wall to resupply with goods from all over the empire to distribute on their sea routes to neighboring countries... kind of like the economic stimulus equivalent of "foreign aid" and billions for other countries while your own people suffer abuse, neglect and degradation. All exploitive systems fade into disuse and obscurity only to be resurrected as tourist amusements for future exploitation systems.

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Dear nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q, why is my yakihonne app crashing all the time? Like, every 10 minutes? It crashes on my phone and my tablet... It's a great app! It starts right back up, but i lose my place in the scroll feed? #asknostr

27:27 Ummm... I worked doing towing dispatch. Electric cars get towed back in to the control grid... unless you have a hybrid, then we can bring you a little bit of deep-earth juice... https://fountain.fm/episode/hxj8FgH341okQHV2FEGM

When i was younger, my family and i got to go on a ski trip to a place called Canaan Valley, West Virginia. I had always heard the pronunciation as Kay-Nun. The locals pronounced it as Kuh-Nayn which made sense to me as the first a would be a short schwa sound and the last double a would force/indicate the long a sound... https://fountain.fm/episode/hxj8FgH341okQHV2FEGM

Just wondering, but did Yakihonne users have to suffer through the ReplyGuy phenomenon that plagued Amethyst?

Yeeeeeessss! Yakihonne has it going on! What a great experience with posting/sharing from other apps. I started with Amethyst, but the relay fiddling and profile startup barriers are what i remember being the sticking point on Amethyst. Yakihonne is the way... Now if it would just stop crashing on my Amazon Fire tablet...

I like Amber Signer... this article is pertinent to me. I'm just a user and even now i have questions about buying hardware signers like Foundation Passport Prime and how it would even work. I presume QR codes, but then I've also heard about nsec bunkers, multisig, etc. I like the apps that educate me. I go with those. I presume that the maxim holds true... "Not your keys, not your notes?" nostr:naddr1qqk8w6re94jxjepdwajj6um5dacz6cn4d9kxg6twvukhx6t8dejhyuel95cnqtejxqhnyvpjx5pzqfngzhsvjggdlgeycm96x4emzjlwf8dyyzdfg4hefp89zpkdgz99qvzqqqr4guays8pj

I'm trying out Yakihonne after Amethyst borked my latest long form post/thought... I will never get it back. 😢

This is very true...