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Username: Sstashmoo
Post Number: 2852
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 5:22 pm: |    |
Made ya look. 
What are the diamonds painted every few hundred feet on Michigan avenue? Is that for pacing cars from above? |
Jfried
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Username: Jfried
Post Number: 1205
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 5:24 pm: | |
High occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane demonstration project by MDOT. |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 3616
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 5:43 pm: | |
Another gimmick to help Osborne write more tickets. :P |
Sludgedaddy
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Username: Sludgedaddy
Post Number: 213
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 6:33 pm: | |
The diamond <> was a 19th and early 20th century form of graffiti posted to resemble a female's vagina. With the popularity of text messages and the shortening of letters in the printed word maybe something old is new again. |
Zephyrprocess
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Username: Zephyrprocess
Post Number: 650
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 9:51 pm: | |
People say she's crazy
She's got diamonds on the soles of her shoes |
Wolverine
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Username: Wolverine
Post Number: 640
Registered: 04-2004
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 11:25 pm: | |
I guess this kind of shows how far Michigan is behind on the times.....
Must explain why I saw a car attempting to drive in a bike lane today. |
Lmichigan
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Username: Lmichigan
Post Number: 6401
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 - 11:51 pm: | |
I was thinking the same thing, Wolverine. The birthplace and headquarters of the American automobile, and Michigan is just about the last place to see 'new' infrastructure/transportation technology. |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 14784
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 12:17 am: | |
Best I can tell, that is the new PASSING lane... |
Hamtragedy
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Username: Hamtragedy
Post Number: 334
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 1:00 am: | |
I thought this thread was about Detroit diamonds (a bunch of smashed out car windows lying on the pavement). |
Switchmanjim
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Username: Switchmanjim
Post Number: 3
Registered: 10-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 1:23 am: | |
They're like rosary beads. You say a prayer at every one...hoping to make it to the next... |
Englishkills
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Username: Englishkills
Post Number: 11
Registered: 10-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 7:13 pm: | |
Detroit doesn't have any other HOV lanes? I could have sworn I remember them on an expressway, possibly I-94, back in the 90s. I know we have them all over in the New York metro area although some have been done away with. First time I remember seeing them is out in California back in the 70s. A lot of places are moving away with the HOV lanes in favor of toll lanes. |
Fishtoes2000
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Username: Fishtoes2000
Post Number: 724
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 7:34 pm: | |
If there were HOV lanes elsewhere in Michigan, there certainly are not provisions for enforcing them with our current motor vehicle code. Legislation is slowly moving through the state legislature to add HOV enforcement. However, that legislation was modified to only allow HOV lanes on Michigan Avenue within Detroit city limits. |
Andylinn
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Username: Andylinn
Post Number: 1094
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 3:59 am: | |
Sludedaddy said: "The diamond <> was a 19th and early 20th century form of graffiti posted to resemble a female's vagina."
--- So what was used to represent a male's vagina? |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 14796
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 8:13 am: | |
Back then, the female vagina WAS the male's...but then, slavery was legal, too. |