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Re: Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

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panopticon wrote: post #434
fallingknife wrote: post #400

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> And because unlike everywhere else in the US DC workers who live in Virginia or Maryland don't pay DC taxes I don't think that's the case. In my experience as a remote worker you always pay where you live, not where you work.

There are a patchwork of state laws (reciprocity agreements, the "convenience rule", etc) and other caveats that don't make this universally true, but generally you pay taxes to (1) the state you you work in and (2) the state you live in. Note that #1 means the location where the work is being performed--not where the employer is located. So if you commute interstate for your job, you'll sometimes find yourself filin…

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Re: Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

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flavius29663 wrote: post #439
seventytwo wrote: post #411

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Sounds like DC needs to be made a state.

The whole point of DC was that it won't be in any state. That was the sole reasoning for creating those 100 square miles. Maryland could take back it's half like Virginia did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_retrocess... , but creating a state out of a piece of land specifically designated as non-state doesn't make sense.

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Re: Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

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Post by fomine3 »

whoopdedo wrote: post #107
toomuchtodo wrote: post #11

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If they’re not moving and have a heat pump, well, but like a combustion vehicle will exhaust their energy storage eventually. Resistive heat or suboptimal battery architecture? Poorly. Jerrycans for some, tows to Fast DC chargers for others. Class 8 semis should have sufficient diesel reserves for long loiters, even with truckers using auxiliary power units for heat. If not, it is trivial to refuel them on the road w…

Aren't EVs programmed to hold a reserve charge for emergencies? To avoid the cost and inconvenience of a tow, shut off power before you lose the ability to drive yourself to the nearest charger. (Bonus points for adjusting the threshold based on the distance to known stations.) But in the case that a car does drain the battery, how difficult is it to get a portable charger to someone? Have roadside mechanics started…

Unable to driving is better than freezing death by not using heater.

Re: Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

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Post by xattt »

obmelvin wrote: post #385
jcims wrote: post #284

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>Also a good to refuel often. I try treat 1/2 a tank as empty and stop accordingly. On longer trips it lines up well with bathroom breaks. This also helps limit the amount of water that can condense on the walls of the gas tank and wind up freezing in the pump or fuel line. It’s possible modern cars have some countermeasures for this because it has been years since I’ve seen it happen, but an additional (potential) b…

A little extra reason to refuel your car sooner rather than later is that the fuel pump will be stressed more as the tank approaches empty.

Where is the additional stress from? Lack of weight from fuel above to push it through the fuel lines?

Re: Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

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Post by justapassenger »

flavius29663 wrote: post #439
seventytwo wrote: post #411

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Sounds like DC needs to be made a state.

The whole point of DC was that it won't be in any state. That was the sole reasoning for creating those 100 square miles. Maryland could take back it's half like Virginia did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_retrocess... , but creating a state out of a piece of land specifically designated as non-state doesn't make sense.

That’s not a reasonable argument for any position. Just because few hundred years ago something was designed differently isn’t a reason not to change it.

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Post by micromacrofoot »

flavius29663 wrote: post #439
seventytwo wrote: post #411

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Sounds like DC needs to be made a state.

The whole point of DC was that it won't be in any state. That was the sole reasoning for creating those 100 square miles. Maryland could take back it's half like Virginia did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_retrocess... , but creating a state out of a piece of land specifically designated as non-state doesn't make sense.

does the establishment of washington dc as an unrepresented area make sense today in 2022? it has over 700,000 residents and its own school system… since its inception it has struggled time and time again due to its awkward status… the people living there want it overwhelmingly!

Re: Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

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Post by mschuster91 »

peterburkimsher wrote: post #458
GlenTheMachine wrote: post #396

There are a lot of comments here about why public transit in the DC area doesn't work, but nobody that I've seen has put their finger on it. The biggest issue is that the area covers two states, at least ten counties depending on what you count as the “DC area”, plus the District of Columbia, which isn't a state, doesn't have control over its own budget, and has no representation in Congress. Oh, and in Virginia citi…

Geneva is a special case of cross-border agreements in Europe. The Swiss public transport (TPG) bus service made a bilateral agreement with the French authorities to set up a cross-border bus. A tram service is being built too, next to CERN. It can be done. Possibly as a result of that, the bus ticket machines now accept Euros and Swiss Francs, even on the Swiss side. Quite how this works financially is remarkable to…

> Possibly as a result of that, the bus ticket machines now accept Euros and Swiss Francs, even on the Swiss side. Quite how this works financially is remarkable to me.

Legal tender is a currency that has to be accepted (and returns given in) by all merchants in a jurisdictional area. There is no law that prevents merchants from accepting payment in other currencies, which was why the good old Deutsche Mark was widespread in former Yugoslavia and the US Dollar is accepted in a lot of countries without a stable currency or somewhat sane politics, or even outdated currencies - the Deutsche Mark is still convertible at the German Federal Bank, and retailers have been known to run "pay with D-Mark" offerings for ages.

If you were referring on the financial workings of the bus line itself, that one is considered a non-issue in Europe - we are a densely packed continent and there are lots of cross-border transportation networks. Usually, operators count how many people use which segments of a line and divide operating expenses, profit/loss and public subsidies by the actual share of passenger-kilometers.

Re: Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

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Post by splitstud »

crowbahr wrote: post #278
robcohen wrote: post #110

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> I love transit and want more of it, but the transit folks realized it's hard to compete with driving, so they've just given up entirely on making transit great. It's easier to ruin driving. Wow. You just crystalized exactly what I felt was wrong with the argument that induced demand is bad. Thanks.

It's an entirely bad faith and shallow argument. You should probably reconsider what you're thinking is. The goal of transit first infrastructure is to make the majority of trips unnecessary. You shouldn't be required to own a car to participate in American society. This means we need to rezone our residential sprawl to allow for more frequent, smaller grocery stores. We need to increase the amount of mixed zoning, i…

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Re: Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

Noumenon72 wrote: post #459
zip1234 wrote: post #179

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You realize speed bumps are not there to 'ruin driving'--they are mechanical means to stop drivers from speeding as signs are useless and as soon as people are past the cops they speed again.

Let's say they're put there even though they ruin driving for regular people, because they will also stop the few speeders. I don't really speed, but I take a speed bump as a sign someone in the neighborhood is hostile to drivers.

I lived in this neighborhood, on a dead-end street. They grew a new subdivision, and put the street through. Now we had people blowing through our neighborhood at non-neighborhood-driving speeds, trying to race between major roads faster than the major roads would take them.

We petitioned to put speed bumps in. Yes, we were hostile to the way at least some people were driving. But also note that we, the people who asked for the bumps, also drove there every day. We weren't hostile to drivers as a class. We were hostile to people trying to drive excessive speeds on suburban side streets.

Re: Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

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Post by splitstud »

rayiner wrote: post #447
kaesar14 wrote: post #384

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Ok, go to like, every other city in China, Japan, South Korea, or most of the cities of Western Europe. Take your pick.

All civilizations in decline because they can’t accommodate the basic human function of conveniently raising 2.1 new humans per couple. What’s the point of technology that doesn’t serve human needs? Go to Dallas and look at all the families with 3-4 kids. That’s what the future looks like. (Except the minivans and pickup trucks are probably electric.)

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