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Wow, what an..."interesting"-looking stretch of road. I think the overall design of that area with all the loops is highly land-inefficient and likely confusing, but the specific part you dislike doesn't seem too bad to me. Signage could probably be better. As for the drivers, well, it's Jersey.

Yeah, but I mean if it goes to Chevrolet, the bar the front logo floats on will go away, and maybe the taillight lenses will be updated. It really doesn't need anything else to look like a baby Vette.

They already have that in LA. It's incredible how little you have to wait for a light to change, with only a few exceptions. Plus, you don't waste time at signals if there are only 1 or 2 cars waiting to turn left because the green arrows only show up when 3+ cars are queued--those two can turn on the yellow, and it increases overall flow. Or if you're aware of this, like I am, you stop a car-length or two before the stop line to trip the loop detector and get the preemptive green arrow

Wait--this isn't a grade-separated freeway with full access control? Or is it partial? Basically from everything you posted it sounds like there are a lot of unskilled drivers out there who don't give a $h!--very dangerous.

Bingo. Honestly, though, bank nationalization worked wonders in Sweden after their economic crash. The Fed already controls interest rates, so I don't see what the huge problem is on the surface. I'm open to other opinions, though.

Corvette-like rear, front fascia that already mirrors that of the Malibu? Why change anything at all beyond the badge?

Yes, and EVERYTHING posted by the media is unbiased, agenda-free, and 100% factual. Right I love how much you like to play the victim when it comes to regional stereotypes, though I have never once played that card against you. Yet once again, you do that to me. Grow up--you can't have it both ways. Maybe if you travelled to different parts of the country you would see first-hand how ridiculous many of your regional stereotypes are.

OK, I get what you're saying. Spring Hill would be logical, though, since Traverse could be moved to Lansing fairly easily.

Correct, but think about it for a second: if GM could sell off Saturn, and package it with a factory or two, whoever buys it would pay more since there are tangible assets in addition to the rights to the brand. Saturn IS GM, for now at least. But if GM moved the Traverse tooling to Lansing, there would at least be a factory to be sold off that whatever new entity could use for production, and GM would get more money for the sale. GM would also have one less factory to worry about.

Perpetuating this farce serves no purpose other than to stir up $h! on the boards.

93/7 is the way to go.

This is only logical. Since Saturn may be sold off or spun off, the Spring Hill plant would probably go with it, and that would boost what GM could get for such a sale. It's more advantageous to sell plants than to shut them down. And this talk about punishing states that went red...absolutely assinine. Anyone who buys into it is a partisan hack and/or conspiracy theorist.

Yeah, please hurry. When I have multiple firefox tabs, it gets annoying having to highlight the thread title to read what thread I'm reading.

There is nothing wrong with Eli Lilly & Co.

Right here with you for the most part. My 2001 Aurora is the perfect size for me--no compromises on passenger room or trunk volume. The CTS would be my first choice for a replacement. I don't want anything too terribly long.

Give me a stretch of road (a couple examples) so I can look them up on Windows Live Maps. This could be to force a merge to cut down on weaving and may actually increase flow. I'd be interested in seeing this.

OK, so you just outlined that the drivers are careless and uneducated (don't even use signals?!?), and that there is weaving and 93 access points. So you have bad drivers plus an atrocious road design. Let me guess, the on and off ramps consist of short weave lanes instead of forcing merges and allowing diverges at certain points? If those ramps are closer than 1/2 mile apart, there are some serious design issues. When was this built? If built after the 1960s, then the engineers were either reckless or willfully ignorant. The road design and poor driver education are the problem, not speed.

There is no reason. It is simply an impediment to maturity growth and letting cooler heads prevail. The longer the mentality exists that if you have a problem with someone it is OK to just shoot them, the longer this country will be in the $h!ter. That kind of thinking is uneducated and declasse.

That burger isn't properly cooked inside.

You want to Terrain-ize the Acadia? Wow...now I seriously question your taste level and market acumen. I like the Terrain, but the Acadia is perfect and appeals to its demographic with current styling. From that standpoint, I almost wish the front clip of the Terrain weren't so severe, but if they are going for men, then fine, they'll get them. The Acadia, as a family vehicle, needs to retain mainstream, softer styling.

Someone just got killed by a red light runner at the edge of USC two weeks ago. Red light runners are common here, and with the massive number of students crossing here daily, at all hours, I want a red light camera. Because of the 3-way signal and diagonal pedestrian crossing cycle, they should even prohibit right turns on red, and camera angle those too. There's a real and pressing safety issue here, and it needs to be addressed. Speed is more about driver skill. Red light running is stupidity. And before anyone jumps on me for OMG I WAS AT A BROKEN RED LIGHT ONCE TEH HORROR........if you stop for a few seconds, it doesn't flash on you. It only detects and tickets light runners.

I'm sorry, but very little of this makes any sense. The social safety net is in place so people have the freedom to live in CA. Anyone hiring illegal labor is breaking the law, so your whole argument that the laws are incentivizing illegal labor is bunk. That's an enforcement issue, not a problem with the law. The minimum wage isn't higher than elsewhere, in fact CA isn't much above the federal level, and most certainly not at a "living" wage. And you think everyone should have completely unbridled access to guns? Wow, I can't even respond to that. Sure, let's make it even easier for the crazies to get them and blow people up for cutting them off on the freeway. Or shooting up our schools. Yeah, that sounds like a righteous plan! Heaven forbid you have to wait 10 days to get your firearm...what's the hurry? Who or what do you need to shoot so immediately you cannot wait 10 days??

I'm all for red light cameras. But speed sensing cameras? Insidious.

It's a pretty "just" state too...at least within the legal framework. It's interesting that the state has a lot of "protection" laws for the environment, minorities, and other underserved populations/causes, yet the localities try so hard to skirt the laws whenever they can. Very interesting dichotomy.

Any road with 10,000+ accidents in 5 years in a stretch has a design problem. That averages out to 5/day. I don't know how many miles/km you're talking about, so 5/day could either be pretty bad, or ok. Now you say there's a lot of bumper-bumper...no one is going 80/130 in bumper-bumper traffic. I'm really not feeling you provided an objective assessment of the road, but more of a "too many people are going faster than I'm comfortable going" attitude. The Santa Monica freeway can be very congested in LA, with stops and crawling at 25-30 during large portions of the day...but then you can easily go 80 during even periods of moderate traffic. And a lot of people do. It's posted is 65, which is not unreasonable for its age or design. The only places on it that have a high accident rate are those that are not up to current design standards and feature forced weaving...so totally expected.