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PLYMPTON - With Selectmen Chairman Barry DeCristofano "on assignment," Selectman Joe Freitas led Monday's Board of Selectmen's meeting. Several topics were addressed, including the new mile markers installed along Plympton roads. According to a report in the Milford Daily News thousands of the markers were purchased with stimulus money and are being installed all across the state. They are placed in 1/5-mile intervals. Some say the markers are for safety purposes and help travelers identify their exact location in emergencies. Others, like Selectman John Henry, say "I think it's a big waste of money."
Mile markers: aid or waste?
Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 2:20 PM EST
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I'm gonna go with waste why do that when you could just buy everyone a gps and have em do a nine line medevac request and provide a 6 digit grid
#1 - Thu Nov 5, 2009 2:47 PM ESTWell.. possibly due to the fact that GPS is not accurate in many cases.. Some of the programming of information/directions are not accurate... I had a GPS system in one of my vehicles.. and I put in the information... I was told to take a left in the middle of I-95, and there was no turn for about 4 miles down the road.. until they can program the GPS properly and more accurately with the information.. the mile markers for now and for many years past, are the only workable thing we got.
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that is thanx to the us military... we purposely skew the gps in civilian applications usually by a few hundred meters
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Which makes a lot of sense defensively speaking.. and why I do not use a gps.. ha
I use what they call in the business - a Road Map - or print out
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We use mile markers all the time on the road to see where we are in relation to where we started. I find them to be quite helpful.
Mileage signs to actual cities are usually very inaccurate. For example, between Louisville and Indianapolis, the mileage sign to Indianapolis reads 120 miles, but then, you travel for 10 miles, and the sign reads, Indianapolis 116 miles. Huh?
We laugh about it, as if the cities are surreptitiously crawling back and forth on the landscape.
Take care!
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Mile markers are very important in aiding truck drivers for many reasons.
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#2 - Thu Nov 5, 2009 3:09 PM ESTA GPS system won't withstand an EMP. Then again, if you are close enough to an EMP that it overloads your GPS, you're probably SOL and USC.
#3 - Thu Nov 5, 2009 3:19 PM ESTIf you've ever broken down on the highway it's certainly handy to be able to call for help and tell them where you are without having to walk a couple miles. Also when reporting accidents to the police mile markers are very helpful.
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#4 - Thu Nov 5, 2009 3:45 PM ESTI like them --in places like KS how else do you have any clue as to where you are?
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lol I'm in the middle of a giant barren lanscape.... oh just nevermind
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I do like them in keeping track of how far we have gone, and it is good to get the kids involved with counting and keeping them quiet in telling them when we get to a certain mile marker we are almost there, so they watch instead of keeping asking, Are we there yet?
In an emergency or car break down it makes it easier for help to find you.
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#5 - Thu Nov 5, 2009 5:01 PM ESTI've never seen mile markers placed every 1/5 mile. Back home we had them every mile.
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#6 - Thu Nov 5, 2009 5:20 PM EST"Breaker Breaker Channel 19 you got a Smoke Bear in a plain brown wrapper taken your picture at Mile Marker 284 on your south bound side over"
that would be a state trooper in a brown unmarked cruiser shooting radar on the southbound traffic at M.M. 284 in truckers language ;)
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#7 - Thu Nov 5, 2009 5:36 PM ESTThere is a Bear in the Air..
I use to have a CB mobile and base.. large antenna
Cheaper than cellphones - as long as they are within range
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The program was created to allow better accuracy in reporting locations for travelers in need and crashes and will be included with reports filed by the State Police. The information will be used to identify high accident areas in an effort to find ways to alleviate ongoing problems.
Perhaps the Selectman temporarily in charge should keep his opinions in check, and allow the Chair to return, before attempting what appears to be political grandstanding because the funds derived from stimulus money. I wonder how fast he'd be looking to pass that contract on to a crony if the money came from another source.
And the parahraph in the seeded story is even more informative than this one.
Does anyone still actually read these seeds in their entirety? Sometimes I wonder.
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