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The inaugural train parked at the new Provo Station.
This post was going to be on a completely different topic that I started writing Thursday afternoon. I visited a local library in the evening to use the internet at which point my laptop decided to malfunction. I was able to recover the post but it’s [...]
Officially known as “shared lane markings”, there are at least six unique designs for the marking on Chicago streets. The current standard, as set forth by the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), looks like this:
A sharrow design installed by CDOT’s contractors on Milwaukee Avenue across from Uprise skate shop as part of [...]
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