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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2011 18:02:44 GMT -5
You can't use the downtown YMCA in Utica anymore all the wacy drunk veterans from the Vietnam Disgrace conflict hang around. One good think they don't ask for handout anymore. Such a disgrace to the american flag they are. Any one in this board ever seen Cowboy. Now that is a character.
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Post by bobbbiez on Jan 27, 2011 22:04:42 GMT -5
 OMG! Is Cowboy still around? When I tended bar I use to throw him out every single day. He is a wacko and can be dangerous. I can't believe he is still alive. Thought someone would have killed him years ago. He is nothing but b-i-g trouble. Very loose cannon. 
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2011 10:27:04 GMT -5
Gee and I gave him $10.00 for Christmas. Maid me laugh when he said if he could give it back for a $20.00.
I see him all the time. Rides his bike all over the place. He sometimes goes to the McDonald's up at North Utica Walmart and tries to get money from people. He got caught drinking beer in the store. Just took it off the shelf and started drinking. lol. He did tell me he was an alcoholic at least he was honest.
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Post by chris on Jan 29, 2011 13:27:47 GMT -5
Must be quite a popular guy....he has his own FB page. On youtube (is your guy?) We have our own in Rochacha but he is know as Festival Bob...can be found at any Rochacha event. Ours isn't homeless or harmful....just excentric. He runs everyday in just shorts and a cap...even in dead of winter.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2011 10:07:57 GMT -5
He looks a little like our Cowboy.
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Post by dgriffin on Jan 30, 2011 14:31:57 GMT -5
We have one in Woodstock, too. Maybe it's a franchise. |
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Post by dgriffin on Jan 30, 2011 14:54:16 GMT -5
From the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Q&A on roundabouts: "A 2001 Institute study of 23 intersections in the United States reported that converting intersections from traffic signals or stop signs to roundabouts reduced injury crashes by 80 percent and all crashes by 40 percent.1 Similar results were reported by Eisenman et al.: a 75 percent decrease in injury crashes and a 37 percent decrease in total crashes at 35 intersections that were converted from traffic signals to roundabouts.2 A study of 17 higher speed rural intersections (40 mph and higher speed limits) found that the average injury crash rate per million entering vehicles was reduced by 84 percent and fatal crashes were eliminated when the intersections were converted to roundabouts.3 Studies of intersections in Europe and Australia that were converted to roundabouts have reported 41-61 percent reductions in injury crashes and 45-75 percent reductions in severe injury crashes. www.iihs.org/research/qanda/roundabouts.html |
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Post by dgriffin on Jan 30, 2011 15:07:31 GMT -5
Something Clipper said earlier reminded me that what "messed up" Oneida Square was the Soldiers and Sailors Monument. What had been an intersection of a few streets years ago became more complicated for future automobiles by the addition of a memorial to the war dead. But isn't that memorial still important? ![]() www.windsweptpress.com/images/soldiers old.jpg[/img] I have to say one GOOD thing about a roundabout on Oneida Square, if it doesn't kill people, is the memorial will be accessible without having to run out in the street and cross traffic.  |
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jan 30, 2011 15:23:36 GMT -5
Actually, the design doesn't look too bad, the question is the need.
If we were to do something with a high traffic, accident prone intersection my choice would be Rt 5/ Commercial Drive/ Middle Settlement Rd/ J-Kay parking lot/ Big Apple parking lot/ Zeb's /Pizza Hut.
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Post by Clipper on Jan 30, 2011 17:24:23 GMT -5
Boy, is that an understatement Clarence. I would love to see the accident record for that intersection. There, and in front of the new Walmart Plaza on Commercial Drive has to be the most accident prone areas in the entire locale. Seems at least one out of two accidents I read about are in one of those two places.
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Post by dgriffin on Jan 30, 2011 19:24:26 GMT -5
Yes, you have to wonder about the process by which NYSDOT chooses where to place the roundabouts. I'm sure politics is involved to some extent. Maybe to a great extent.
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Post by dgriffin on Jan 30, 2011 19:35:20 GMT -5
Actually, the design doesn't look too bad, the question is the need. If we were to do something with a high traffic, accident prone intersection my choice would be Rt 5/ Commercial Drive/ Middle Settlement Rd/ J-Kay parking lot/ Big Apple parking lot/ Zeb's /Pizza Hut. Interesting rendition, CB. Gives me an idea, but I can't decide whether I'd wear the cape or the sequined tunic while playing the piano. |
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Post by chris on Jan 31, 2011 20:56:49 GMT -5
I should ask my brother. He just retired from NYSDOT. My guess politics is heavily involved from the evidence I've seen of the choices Irondequoit has made in the past....and they are and were all bad choices from what I have witnessed.
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Post by chris on Jan 31, 2011 22:17:00 GMT -5
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Post by clarencebunsen on Jan 31, 2011 23:36:07 GMT -5
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OMG! Is Cowboy still around? When I tended bar I use to throw him out every single day. He is a wacko and can be dangerous. I can't believe he is still alive. Thought someone would have killed him years ago. He is nothing but b-i-g trouble. Very loose cannon. 
