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Originally Posted by avitech
Well thank you so much for seeing things with an unbiased point of view. I believe Antennahead is still holding a grudge because of my comments I said earlier about his/her hometown. In any case if he/she is listening. It must of sounded worse than it was. I was not putting down the "South" if you will. As a matter of fact I happen to appreciate the South a great deal because it's a nice contrast to California. Atlanta is known to have the best residential housing in the country if not all of the Americas thanks to it's generous attitude toward land use. I have been there. I have seen the South. I was merely making a point about what I have seen in Charleston in particular during one of my journeys over there. I noticed that it had a 3 or 5 story parking garage without a single elevator and all the handicap spaces were at the ground level. When I said these things I wasn't being hypercritical about the south, I was merely being descriptive in order to show to Antennaehead that I have actually been to his hometown.
For example if I were to say that I had a Red Apple. Notice I didn't use any negative adjectives in order to describe the item? It was just pure descriptive.
If I had offended anyone in this whole newsgroup then you have my sincere apologies. Upsetting and or insulting anyone is not and never was my intention.
It's just that wen I hear about other people breaking traffic laws and doing things on the public access roads that are unsafe for the general public at large then I tend to want to encourage safe driving practices.
If you want to drive faster than 80, sure you can. You can do so all day if you want. All I ask is you just do it the legal way by going to a closed race track or by driving in a dry lake bed where it is safe and there are no cars, people, or animals in the way. Aside from that, if you want to travel at higher speeds to get from point A to point B then it's better to try the Autobahn with no speed restrictions. Or better yet, learn how to fly a single engine aircraft.
But driving >100mph on any limited access highway in North America is both illegal and highly not advised or encouraged. Unless of course that stretch of highway is closed down just for racing.
I'm just worried for myself and my friends who have to share the road with speeders who don't respect life.
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It came across as very condescending. Charleston has actually won the most friendly city in America so many times, that Conde Nast retired us from the competition. The reason the handicapped parking spaces are on the ground level is to make it easier for a handicapped person to manuver. The top level does not have elevator service on some of the older garages, that were built before certain code restrictions applied. By increasing the number of handicapped spaces on the first level however, we were making it easier for a handicapped person to park. I believe there are more than enough to pass code taking into account that the top level has no elevator service.
I do not favor excessive speed on public highways. That said, we have stretches of interstate in the south with a posted limit of 75MPH. People regularly drive close to 85 MPH on them. Assuming the vehicle is in good mechanical condition and tires are fine, there is little danger in that, assuming no racing is going on.