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grant

actually this is the median consumer

@grant this is fucked up. if i saw this on the street i'd open fire

@grant @jiub what is this actually called I need to see a video of it working now

@grant sliding everything over from left to right, it's the RFK Jr bus

@grant Another thing to add to the list of "Cool things I never knew existed".

The Alt Text explains everything

@frost @grant Specifically that's the one on the (SF Bay Area) Golden Gate Bridge. Very contentious, people pushed hard to keep the old soft plastic peg lane shifting system, but this is orders of magnitude safer.

Very popular for near-zero-clearance variable lane systems, nicknamed "zippers".

@Phyxis @grant We actually live in Oakland, so if we had a car we could go see it!

@grant @frost Or catch a ride with someone. Bear in mind, the zipper truck is only in that position during active lane-shifts, other times it is parked on the Marin end, if memory serves.

@grant *patrick voice* no, this is the road zipper

@grant virtually unchanged since the late Cambrian

@grant I was going to say This is a good joke, but it's more appropriate to say This is an average joke

@grant

I'm gonna roll 1d4 psychic damage for that dad joke.. :D

@grant

I hope they put a tiny bit of thought into letting the driver choose their last day - imagine after a 15 year career of moving the barrier, then putting it back, then moving it, then putting it back, HR insisted that you leave on a 'putting it back' day which meant that you had achieved actually nothing. 😥

@grant There is also one on a the Roosevelt bridge connecting Virginia and DC.

@grant Who else is using the median? Drunks and Texters!

@grant

It's also the median producer, depending on the end you're looking at.

@grant All this only to do what everyone else (including parts of I 5 and BC 99) just use lane control signals for.

@grant This is like the Wienermobile Cybertruck.

@grant
Oh my god this took me way too long to understand 😭😅

@grant Moving everything slightly to the right... correct

@grant They were doing that once when I walked across, fun to watch along with everything else, just a little more sensory overload

@grant It looks like a caterpillar eating and pooping our median.

@grant
Nice System.
I think that we have not in Japan.

@grant Crazy that they had to develop a machine for this specific purpose. I'm both impressed and disgusted.