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GTRS Fiero

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High-banked highways?
« on: October 20, 2019, 01:46:21 pm »
Yesterday, I crested a hill, and stopped at a stop sign, intending to make a left onto a state highway.  Only thing was, I could not see the highway.  There was literally nothing to see in front of me.  So, I got out to look.  The highway was so steeply banked, that the other side of the highway was 3 storeys lower.  The highway was 2 lanes, each way, with a center lane.  My truck canted at an unpleasant angle.

I don't mind driving through highzbanked turns at 130+ MPH on a track, but where the speed limit is 55MPH, and I have to start from a stop in the middle?  Not so much.
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Re: High-banked highways?
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2019, 04:15:42 pm »
I've seen something similar one time up in the Wilkes Barre, Pa. area where 2 roads ran parallel to each other along a ridge.  We had to take a detour off I-81 due to a bad accident.  Glad I didn't have to travel that path at night.  It wasn't actually a banked roadway but a connector down a very steep hill between 2 roads. 
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Re: High-banked highways?
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2019, 04:18:17 pm »
At least water will shed.  I wouldn't want to drive the highway I saw when it was icy.
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Re: High-banked highways?
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2019, 04:22:52 pm »
Neither would I want to go down that connector in a Pennsylvania winter.  My mental picture of it is close to a 45-degree incline.  Probably wasn't but that's the image I have. 
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Re: High-banked highways?
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2019, 04:26:19 pm »
What I saw was felt very close, but probably was 10 degrees less.
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Re: High-banked highways?
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2019, 06:04:49 pm »
What happens in Winter, when there is ice on the road?
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Re: High-banked highways?
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2019, 06:09:03 pm »
You either slide down the hill because you're too slow, you are csrrying too much momentum to make the turn, or you wipe out, because you're on the gas.
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