Hold Engineers Responsible for Poor Design?
The other day I decided to take a nice weekend trip to the cabin up in Prescott. As many of you are familiar with, to get to Prescott from Phoenix, you have to go through Cordes Junction, you may not be so familiar with the pathetic layout of the ramp however. The ramp is basically designed to allow traffic to easily flow from I-17 northbound to the 69 heading into Prescott and vice-versa, if you want to go from cordes junction south or north however things get weird...
From Cordes Junction if you want to go North to Flagstaff, you need to make a left and head southbound and go through one of those weird U turn style ramps that everyone in their right mind hates, which brings up the next point: never go to New Jersey. Anyway, on my drive up to Prescott this weekend two people in a mercedes were killed by a bus because the driver of the Mercedes, like most drivers of cars purchased in North Scottsdale, didn't bother to look left before turning left and got a close-up view of the front-end of a tour bus doing 50 mph, and probably thought to himself "How dare he not stop for me! I'm in a Mercedes!". Anyway, back to my point, that guy is dead, and in reality that could have been prevented, either by not following the Scottsdale-asshole-small...nevermind, stereotype or if the engineer that designed the ramp simply designed it so a car at a stop sign wouldn't have to make a southbound left turn to go north anyway, in front of traffic heading northbound at 50+ mph....
So my thought is this: should there be some form of penalty for poor roadway design costing lives, or worse causing the inevitable 4-7pm I-10 near the tunnel traffic jam? In the case of the daily jams near the tunnel on the 10, I think that guy should be horsewhipped, beaten, forced to drive home in through his own monstrosity for a year during rush hour, then taken out back and shot. As for the ramp at Cordes Junction, perhaps even just a fine to the engineering firm? I know that kinda sounds like I'm buying into the lawyer mumbo jumbo, but I will state here that I absolutely hate lawyers.... I'm just recommending a way to enforce some quality control.... Or at the very least a way to add some bleach to the gene pool....like we should do with lawyers for example.
From Cordes Junction if you want to go North to Flagstaff, you need to make a left and head southbound and go through one of those weird U turn style ramps that everyone in their right mind hates, which brings up the next point: never go to New Jersey. Anyway, on my drive up to Prescott this weekend two people in a mercedes were killed by a bus because the driver of the Mercedes, like most drivers of cars purchased in North Scottsdale, didn't bother to look left before turning left and got a close-up view of the front-end of a tour bus doing 50 mph, and probably thought to himself "How dare he not stop for me! I'm in a Mercedes!". Anyway, back to my point, that guy is dead, and in reality that could have been prevented, either by not following the Scottsdale-asshole-small...nevermind, stereotype or if the engineer that designed the ramp simply designed it so a car at a stop sign wouldn't have to make a southbound left turn to go north anyway, in front of traffic heading northbound at 50+ mph....
So my thought is this: should there be some form of penalty for poor roadway design costing lives, or worse causing the inevitable 4-7pm I-10 near the tunnel traffic jam? In the case of the daily jams near the tunnel on the 10, I think that guy should be horsewhipped, beaten, forced to drive home in through his own monstrosity for a year during rush hour, then taken out back and shot. As for the ramp at Cordes Junction, perhaps even just a fine to the engineering firm? I know that kinda sounds like I'm buying into the lawyer mumbo jumbo, but I will state here that I absolutely hate lawyers.... I'm just recommending a way to enforce some quality control.... Or at the very least a way to add some bleach to the gene pool....like we should do with lawyers for example.
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