No one likes sitting in traffic so, one Texas city is looking at flying folks over it.
Yep, that's the plan. The city of Plano, about 20 miles north of Dallas, can't figure out how to get through or around traffic congestion so they're trying to bring in some super, high tech gondolas...
When I hear 'gondola,' I imagine serenading men in striped shirts and hats paddling me thru the watery passages of Venice. But, these are quite different.
Their official name is pneumatic road tubes.
These tubes are flexible rubber tubes stretched across a roadway. They work by compressing air as vehicles pass over them. Pressure change reveals much information as it is sent to data collection devices.
We all understand why traffic tickets must be issued. The safety of everyone on the roads in Texas needs to be protected. That doesn't make it any easier when we are on the receiving end of a nice fat traffic ticket.
Texas Transportation Code - TRANSP § 547.501. has a lot to say concerning "audible warning devices". Have a seat and get ready, because Texas law has a lot to say about horns.
It never fails, someone you know moves away and within a few months they're saying I sure miss this restaurant or that business. Because lets face it, even though some of us complain on the daily that there ain't a dang thing to do in Midland-Odessa, there are still some things you would genuinely miss if you moved away.