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[undercoverbrother]

Lights in hotel rooms

Why the #### can’t we have an overhead light in the main part of the room. Instead we get 4-5 stupid little lights that ya need to go around turning on if you actually want any light of substance in the room.

How about a ####ing overhead light in the middle of the room that I can turn on and off. A lamp on either side of the bed and call it a day.

[woob]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Lights in hotel rooms

Why the #### can’t we have an overhead light in the main part of the room. Instead we get 4-5 stupid little lights that ya need to go around turning on if you actually want any light of substance in the room.

How about a ####ing overhead light in the middle of the room that I can turn on and off. A lamp on either side of the bed and call it a day.

We stayed in a place like this over spring break. But the worst part was bedroom didn’t have bedside lights on both sides. They had one floor lamp, kind of close to the bed, that you had to get out of bed to turn on/off. Super annoying.

[Fuzz]

Because overhead lighting would provide enough illumination to see how disgusting the room is.


Also, probably cost. Most hotels are concrete slabs, so wiring that would be more complicated than in wood construction.

[SutterBrother]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Because overhead lighting would provide enough illumination to see how disgusting the room is.


Also, probably cost. Most hotels are concrete slabs, so wiring that would be more complicated than in wood construction.

Speaking of hotels...

...remember when you were a kid and hotels were super fun? Or when you were a starving student, or just starting your first job away from home, and hotels were an upgrade on your normal living situation?

"Ohhh, look! Windows rather than a basement suite vent!"

Now you walk in and think - "What a gross, poorly lit, concrete slab. I wish I wasn't paying out the ass for it..."

I think I might hate hotels now.

[psyang]

Late on the merge discussion, but last winter, I discovered the scariest merge in the city.

It was night with decent snowfall. I can't remember the last time I had to do this merge, so it was very unfamiliar to me.

I was looking to see if it was a merge or a yield. First sign I see is a yield so I slow down, but it's a yield to transit sign, not a full yield. The merge sign is further ahead, and angled to face traffic on Crowchild (you can see it in the distance on my link above). I honestly didn't see it.

So I slowed down as there was oncoming traffic, and the car behind me swerved around me and merged. Fortunately, traffic wasn't heavy, and I was able to enter Crowchild safely, even at a lower speed. But it's the one place where I can't blame a merging driver for not getting up to speed. The tight turn reduces visibility, and the signage totally throws you off.

[Fuzz]

The signage makes sense to me, and it's downhill so getting to speed should be no problem. The only thing you need to watch out for is a bus, pretty easy to yield to. And if you slowed down to the point that someone said "#### this nerd" and went around you? You might be the struggler.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Because overhead lighting would provide enough illumination to see how disgusting the room is.


Also, probably cost. Most hotels are concrete slabs, so wiring that would be more complicated than in wood construction.

Yeah...I came in to say this. I dont think you really want to see that room in clear light.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by mrkajz44

The attitude of "I'm not going to help out the person merging" is a nice microcosm for society these days. Nothing of benefit is really gained from not helping out whomever is merging, but it can be to a large detriment to the one merging. A little courtesy is actually better for both parties in the aggregate, but one party cannot fathom "losing" a bit to help out someone else.

Yep. And a lot of people (not just the strugglers) still don’t seem to understand merges.

If you’re in the lane being merged into, you have no more right to your stretch of the road than the car merging into your lane. If you held your speed, the merging car got up to speed, and the two vehicles collided, you would be at no less fault for the collision than the merging vehicle.

It’s not a courtesy to make space for the merging vehicle. It’s your responsibility. And not only your responsibility - it’s the responsibility of the vehicles in the next lane over as well. If one lane of traffic is merging into two existing lanes, drivers are supposed to treat it as three lanes merging into two, with no vehicle in any lane having precedence over the other.

10-15 years ago, the government (don’t know if it was the city or province) launched an information campaign and posted signs all over the place with diagrams showing how merges are supposed to work. Clearly the campaign didn’t have much effect.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by psyang

Late on the merge discussion, but last winter, I discovered the scariest merge in the city.

It was night with decent snowfall. I can't remember the last time I had to do this merge, so it was very unfamiliar to me.

I was looking to see if it was a merge or a yield. First sign I see is a yield so I slow down, but it's a yield to transit sign, not a full yield. The merge sign is further ahead, and angled to face traffic on Crowchild (you can see it in the distance on my link above). I honestly didn't see it.

So I slowed down as there was oncoming traffic, and the car behind me swerved around me and merged. Fortunately, traffic wasn't heavy, and I was able to enter Crowchild safely, even at a lower speed. But it's the one place where I can't blame a merging driver for not getting up to speed. The tight turn reduces visibility, and the signage totally throws you off.

"Scariest" merge is pretty clickbait and over the top. It's a regular merge that mixes with a transit only lane. Bus gets priority over you, but otherwise you merge like normal. In fact, it's less scary than any other merge because you get extra roadway to work with if there aren't any buses.

[psyang]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

"Scariest" merge is pretty clickbait and over the top. It's a regular merge that mixes with a transit only lane. Bus gets priority over you, but otherwise you merge like normal. In fact, it's less scary than any other merge because you get extra roadway to work with if there aren't any buses.

Yeah, title was a bit too much hyperbole - but to me, the issue was that it wasn't clear that it was a merge in the first place. Signage initially indicated it was a yield, and the merge sign is late and not very visible.

I understand if you have experience with it, but I was entering that onramp blind. They need to add a merge sign much earlier.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by psyang

Late on the merge discussion, but last winter, I discovered the scariest merge in the city.

It was night with decent snowfall. I can't remember the last time I had to do this merge, so it was very unfamiliar to me.

I was looking to see if it was a merge or a yield. First sign I see is a yield so I slow down, but it's a yield to transit sign, not a full yield. The merge sign is further ahead, and angled to face traffic on Crowchild (you can see it in the distance on my link above). I honestly didn't see it.

So I slowed down as there was oncoming traffic, and the car behind me swerved around me and merged. Fortunately, traffic wasn't heavy, and I was able to enter Crowchild safely, even at a lower speed. But it's the one place where I can't blame a merging driver for not getting up to speed. The tight turn reduces visibility, and the signage totally throws you off.

The merge from Crowchild south into Bow Trail east is worse in my opinion. That merge has a short lane and is blind for a good chunk because of the mound/shrubs/trees between the ramp lane and Bow Trail.

[Zary's-Mustache]

Shaganappi to 16th Ave east exit. Whoever decided that was the best spot for the 16th ave west sign needs to be on desk duty.

[Fuzz]

This one, or the one further up?
https://maps.app.goo.gl/JRPQp9LR2iCssiSR9


What's the issue?

[Slava]

I just wish that Rogers (or cell providers in general) would block all the annoying spam texts. I realise that they make money off this and have no incentive to do this, but come one. I get so many of these now and it's just incredibly annoying.

[Zary's-Mustache]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

This one, or the one further up?
https://maps.app.goo.gl/JRPQp9LR2iCssiSR9


What's the issue?

Not that one no the one where you get onto shaganappi after leaving market mall think it's further up.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache

Not that one no the one where you get onto shaganappi after leaving market mall think it's further up.

You will have to actually share a location then, because your description doesn't make much sense.

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by RichieRich

Ok ok how about those traffic circles… let’s go into this assuming only a single lane circle.
Yep you’re supposed to indicate PRIOR to doing your turn, but only immediately after the prior turnoff (or don’t leave your left blinker on to indicate you’re going around?).
Really been frustrated in Crowfoot and Sage Hill areas lately with the non indicators.
You probably don’t even know who you are.
Sigh…

Left signal goes on prior to entering the circle and remains on until I am going to exit, then I change to right signal. That's how I was taught years ago.

[jayswin]

I just enter ablazin' and leave ablazin' when I see the turn off I need.

[timun]

Originally Posted by psyang

Late on the merge discussion, but last winter, I discovered the scariest merge in the city.

The one at southbound 24th Street to Crowchild is very similar, except you have the benefit of a little better visibility and about 10 m more space to get up to speed.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0358...8192?entry=ttu

More than the confusing yield-to-transit signage, there're crosswalks in the middle of the on-ramps anyway. You may have to come to a complete stop, let a pedestrian cross, then get up to 70 km/h in less than 50 m distance to merge into the transit lane, and another ~100 m to merge into the traffic lane. You are almost 100% guaranteed to be driving in the shoulder HOV lane—and at this time of year, kicking up rocks onto Sliver's old-man-beige Mercedes-Benz—to get up to speed to effect a merge.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Yep. And a lot of people (not just the strugglers) still don’t seem to understand merges.

If you’re in the lane being merged into, you have no more right to your stretch of the road than the car merging into your lane. If you held your speed, the merging car got up to speed, and the two vehicles collided, you would be at no less fault for the collision than the merging vehicle.

It’s not a courtesy to make space for the merging vehicle. It’s your responsibility. And not only your responsibility - it’s the responsibility of the vehicles in the next lane over as well. If one lane of traffic is merging into two existing lanes, drivers are supposed to treat it as three lanes merging into two, with no vehicle in any lane having precedence over the other.

10-15 years ago, the government (don’t know if it was the city or province) launched an information campaign and posted signs all over the place with diagrams showing how merges are supposed to work. Clearly the campaign didn’t have much effect.

I have no problem making space for someone merging when there isn't any, but when there's room in front and behind me and they end up beside me and still expect me to adjust to their, usually lower, speed they can #### off and drive into a ditch.

The fact that this happens so often is maddening. The lack of understanding basic driving maneuvers is rampant.