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jordanlund@lemmy.world to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'English · 5 months ago

Portland Demands Something Be Done After Car Crashes Into House For 30th Time, Starts Gas Fire

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Portland Demands Something Be Done After Car Crashes Into House For 30th Time, Starts Gas Fire

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You would think they would have done something like 20 crashes ago.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23629156

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  • Stern@lemmy.world
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    Misread that and thought it was just one car driven by an absolute menace.

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      There also no good picture and the article is terrible at describing why. But many other locations have problems like this. Usually there no stop sign/light or no speed bump, or a turn with no guard rail, etc which causes repeated accidents in the same locations.

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        Right? Throw a Google maps up there with an arrow, you lazy “journalist”. This is a city design issue that needs to be corrected, not a fun “hehe 30 times! clown spring noise rohroah! Laugh track”

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    https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/residents-northeast-portland-home-displaced-car-crash-gas-fire/283-1bbfaa2f-46a8-4364-8d1a-813640b706c3 has better coverage in my humble opinion.

    The intersection appears to be this one: https://www.google.com/maps/place/NE+Weidler+%26+24th,+Portland,+OR+97232/@45.534265,-122.641283,13z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x5495a0cbddac982f:0x76b42bda29253e39!8m2!3d45.534265!4d-122.641283!16s%2Fg%2F1wf389_0?gl=us

    It’s a poor traffic design for sure.

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      Not a great intersection, but its got to be a 25mph speed limit. And 15 before the T intersection. Should probably have some speed bumps on the road to keep people from speeding which is probably what the actual issue is. Also a flashing yellow might be a good idea especially at night.

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