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This article makes me genuinely angry for burying the explanation for why 12 foot traffic lanes are dangerous beneath many paragraphs of what the author clearly
by swartkrans 12y ago
This article makes me genuinely angry for burying the explanation for why 12 foot traffic lanes are dangerous beneath many paragraphs of what the author clearly thought must have been clever banter, wasting my time. Note to authors: put the claim and the gist at the top, then defend it with more details. Don't burry the gist of the article with shitty and annoying writing, making the reader scan paragraph after paragraph of bullshit to establish if the article is worth reading in the first place. In this case, it wasn't.
- rando289 12y agoYa, and what about the people like me who gave up on that scanning and came here to find the tldr, but instead just found your complaint, and then read this complaint about the complaint!! When will it end?!
- dalke 12y agoYour anger should be directed to the person who linked to the site, and not to the author. The information you want is available at http://nacto.org/docs/usdg/lane_widths_on_safety_and_capacity_petritsch.pdf http://nacto.org/docs/usdg/lane_widths_on_safety_and_capacit... and in exactly the format that you want. Indeed, this is the source material for the article that you are angry about, as was cited in the text. The author wrote the article for people who want to read "shitty and annoying writing". There's enough of that writing in the world to know that those readers are in the majority. Those people also need convincing, don't they?