…And The #1 Sign The “Truckers Rolling Protest” Was Designed By Someone From Minneapolis…
By Mitch Berg
…who has not the faintest clue about driving trucks or navigating Saint Paul, take a look at the route.
How many times can you say “Oh, My Gawd”.
- Squeezing semis around the corner of Annapolis and Smith? I don’t know if they’re pulling trailers or not, but even without a trailer…
- Squeezing hundreds of trucks across 7th at Smith? It’ll be like The Who at Riverfront Colisseum. And then…
- Up Summit Hill? Straight up the steepest road grade in the Twin Cities? Sure, the semis’ll make it, but it’s gonna sound like the Russians finally charged through the Fulda Gap with a thousand T72s! And then…
- A turn onto Dale at Summit? That is one narrow street, especially if they’re talking about hauling trailers.
Of course, I suppose anyone who could plan that could plan what Minnesoros Independent reporter Paul Schmelzer says they’re going to do (emphases added):
The drive will begin at 11 and make its way north through West St. Paul, crossing the Mississippi on the High Bridge at Smith Street. It’ll continue down Summit Avenue, north on Dale, east on University and then past the Capitol, before leaving on Robert Street — the closest the convoy will get to the RNC venue itself. By 4 pm, the truckers will join the “March for Our Lives” with the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign, which starts at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza at the United Nations, 45th Street and 1st Avenue.
Three hours to get to New York?
Formidable.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Semis aren’t allowed on Summit are they? It the cops wanted to be proactive they could just bust them as they rolled up.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Annapolis and Smith?
Bad luck for them…that’s the corner I am planning to have a break down at.
At 11:00, you say?
Well, I should be cleared out by no later than noon.
August 20th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Dale and Summit? Lot of parked cars there too.
August 20th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Broken image! That’ll teach you to steal bandwidth, hotlinker!
August 20th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Hey, it wasn’t stolen; it linked back them!
And since my traffic is easily double theirs, they should be damn thankful.
August 20th, 2008 at 11:35 am
They’re planning to drive UP Ramsey Hill and turn left at the University Club onto Summit? Have they ever driven a clutch?
Yeah, okay, maybe if every driver is from Duluth, they’re a crazy bunch and used to it. But I’ve simply got to see a bunch of flatlanders hauling their rigs up that terrain.
Remember the old Bill Cosby skit about Lombard Street? Somebody get a video camera out there in case we re-enact it right here in St. Paul.
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August 20th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Nice of you to give them a reacharound!
You hotlink images all the time, so I know this isn’t an isolated incident. Read this for why it’s bad practice:
http://altlab.com/hotlinking.html
You’ve been blogging for six years. Host these images yourself. It’s not only good netiquette, but it eliminates the chance of this from ever happening to you:
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000278.html
August 20th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Schmelzer wrote something about having gotten the route backwards.
Not that that sounds much better; turning *left* from Uni onto Dale? Trundling down Dale all the way to Summit? Going down Summit Hill (hello, low gear!)? Crossing West Seventh on Smith? Left from Smith onto Annapolis?
August 20th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Nice of you to give them a reacharound!
The term is “link”, actually.
August 20th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
I don’t buy this:
“A simple analogy for bandwidth theft: Imagine a random stranger plugging into your electrical outlets, using your electricity without your consent, and you paying for it.”
Only if you installed outlets all over the world that link back to your house.
If you can’t afford the traffic, don’t host the site, or protect your high bandwidth content from “abuse”. Or whine more, because that will always “work”.
However, as pointed out, “hotlink”-ing can be dangerous.
August 20th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
nate a semi clutch is different from the one in passenger cars. It isn’t hard to start off without rolling back. Just need to pay attention.
Now getting around some of the turns described sounds like a nightmare.