Complicated solution to a simple problem

[Cormanus]

Your $50 per day is pretty rich, GO.

[Gone in 60]

question: why not the back of the helmet?

I swap between several different helmets from day to day. But, I only have three tail boxes, and I have three bikes.

[GoldOxide_imp]

Your $50 per day is pretty rich, GO.

Sorry Cormanus.

It appears I was off a bit. I haven't looked at the toll rates lately.

Turns out my round trip would be over $100 per day, plus tax.

Here be the toll calculator:

https://www.407etr.com/en/tolls/tolls/to...lator.html


There was a time toll was $0.11 per km during peak time. But that is sooo 20th century.

[Gone in 60]

Jeebus, that's expensive!

I've only paid to commute once.
Back in the late 90s, when I worked at Petersen Publishing in West L.A. my freeway commute was almost two hours each way. Enough to make you want to eat your steering wheel, and I hadn't started riding yet. I started taking the train from my town to downtown, and the subway to within a short bus ride the rest of the way. At the time, my monthly rail and bus passes totalled about $200 per month. Pricey at the time, but it didn't take any longer than driving, and I could keep my sanity and sleep most of the way to work and back.

They're expanding the subway system, and will soon have a station directly below the Petersen Museum where I still work on weekends. I could take the train and subway to the museum, but I imagine the ticket prices have gone up quite a bit since the 90s, and riding is vastly faster than public transportation.

[GoldOxide_imp]

Jeebus, that's expensive!

I've only paid to commute once.
Back in the late 90s, when I worked at Petersen Publishing in West L.A. my freeway commute was almost two hours each way. Enough to make you want to eat your steering wheel, and I hadn't started riding yet. I started taking the train from my town to downtown, and the subway to within a short bus ride the rest of the way. At the time, my monthly rail and bus passes totalled about $200 per month. Pricey at the time, but it didn't take any longer than driving, and I could keep my sanity and sleep most of the way to work and back.

They're expanding the subway system, and will soon have a station directly below the Petersen Museum where I still work on weekends. I could take the train and subway to the museum, but I imagine the ticket prices have gone up quite a bit since the 90s, and riding is vastly faster than public transportation.

Expanding a subway system sounds like a plan versus more toll freeways.

= = =

The province of Ontario is pretty stupid.

They sold (leased) this overpriced toll freeway to Spain (I think that is still the case?) for 99 years. So some toll proceeds go back to a foreign country.

Meanwhile, the Ontario taxpayer helps cover some freeway maintenance costs, and of course any new extensions including lane expansion.

[Gone in 60]

Jeebus, that's expensive!

I've only paid to commute once.
Back in the late 90s, when I worked at Petersen Publishing in West L.A. my freeway commute was almost two hours each way. Enough to make you want to eat your steering wheel, and I hadn't started riding yet. I started taking the train from my town to downtown, and the subway to within a short bus ride the rest of the way. At the time, my monthly rail and bus passes totalled about $200 per month. Pricey at the time, but it didn't take any longer than driving, and I could keep my sanity and sleep most of the way to work and back.

They're expanding the subway system, and will soon have a station directly below the Petersen Museum where I still work on weekends. I could take the train and subway to the museum, but I imagine the ticket prices have gone up quite a bit since the 90s, and riding is vastly faster than public transportation.

Expanding a subway system sounds like a plan versus more toll freeways.

= = =

The province of Ontario is pretty stupid.

They sold (leased) this overpriced toll freeway to Spain (I think that is still the case?) for 99 years. So some toll proceeds go back to a foreign country.

Meanwhile, the Ontario taxpayer helps cover some freeway maintenance costs, and of course any new extensions including lane expansion.

Remember that movie Vocano with Tommy Lee Jones from the '90s, where the La Brea Tar Pits was really a dormant volcano? Part of it was sort of true. They were tunneling below Wishire Boulevard, the main East/West corridor from downtown to the coast at Santa Monica. The further west they dug, the more gas pockets they hit getting closer to the La Brea Tar Pits. Plus, there were claims of poor construction, mishandling of funds, and the whole thing stopped mid-way and became sort of a boondoggle. They never hit lava or triggered a volcano, but there were some gas explosions.

With modern tunneling techniques, they have apparently solved some problems, and they've been digging like gangbusters. At first they expanded the lines in other directions away from the tar pits, but the current construction has underground stations going in on both sides of it along Wilshire, so maybe they'll have to pull Tommy out of retirement to save the day if something bad happens.

The above-ground light rail has also expanded quite a bit.

[GoldOxide_imp]

... yez, I vaguely recall that movie when it was new.

[Cormanus]

$100 / day is not 'pretty rich'; it's bloody outrageous unless they're actively trying to stop people using it.

[GoldOxide_imp]

$100 / day is not 'pretty rich'; it's bloody outrageous unless they're actively trying to stop people using it.

Needless to say, the freeway is underutilized.

Many hooligan motorcycle riders use the freeway by temporarily blocking their license plate upon ingress and egress of the roadway. Some riders simply have no plates.

Since traffic is light, they often test their top speed. I can hear them often in the late summer nights as their inline lumps wind up and fill the region with sound. It is not uncommon hearing riders brag about breaking 300 km/h on their 600s.

[pdedse]

https://plateflip.com/

lol.

I love advertising and marketing:

"A MOTORCYCLE PLATE FLIPPER IS IDEAL FOR SHOWS, TRACK DAYS OR BIKE MEETS"

But...

"IT’S UP TO YOU HOW YOU USE YOURS!"

I'd buy one if only there were other uses one could use them for.