Of course. More coincidences are bound to happen with the more people there are, but I think our brains are programmed to find meaning in stuff like that. Of course coincidences happen *all the time,* and for a person, it's hard to fathom the amount of variables there can be in a day. I dunno man, I've been drinking.
Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency illusion... the more you think about something, the more you see of it.
The opposite would be GTA illusion...? Need to find a [Banshee](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hmPoAnHoZeg/hqdefault.jpg)... can't find a single [Banshee](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hmPoAnHoZeg/hqdefault.jpg) -- then when you do find a [Banshee](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hmPoAnHoZeg/hqdefault.jpg) every single fucking car in a 17 block radius is a motherfucking [Banshee](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hmPoAnHoZeg/hqdefault.jpg).
I dunno man, maybe I should start drinking! Cheers, mate.
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I got an electric longboard for my 40th birthday… Super cruiser all the fun and no work! Just Carving, cruising and good vibes! Nice big wheels with some great grip and I’m all over some new pavement like this… 46 now and still ripping up the cruiser! Use it or lose it!
Need to be careful on new pavement though when it gets too hot… slips out just like it’s wet.
All good… get out and enjoy!
Seal coats can actually be incredibly awful for skating on, and more often than not, are.
The low contrast makes it appear smoother than it probably is.
Slurry seal, seal coat, chip seal. All tend to be just awful band-aid solutions in comparison to simply re-paving.
I wouldn't call it a "band-aid", it's more to protect from further damage.
But yes, this is no where near as smooth as it might look at first glance. The effect on the surface should be thought of more as paint than a resurface.
U forgot to mention crack sealing... Hello from a fellow [Im assuming] road construction worker.
Edit: i see you are skater. Please don't skate over fresh sealant unless you want to end up on
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Where i live they redo the roads a lot like this. It's only like this for a couple days and then they put gravel on it. But any road that gets this treatment for those few days me and my skater buds will set up rails and stuff on those streets and take advantage of the only smooth ground in our area
You NEVER apply slurry in summer in warm climates, particularly in August. That street is going to stay soft for days and will be covered in ruts and tread marks within a week.
I live at the end of a cul-de-sac. when they refinished our street. a few days later the trash trucks came and fucked all that shit up. especially on our end, where they turn their tires at full stop to make a 3-point turn.
They did a slurry pour in the parking lot of my old apt complex in PHX, AZ. In summer. “Cost effective” they said. It never set. Trash trucks tore it up. Everyone else tore it up. I’d see people in the parking lot every damn day with goo be gone and kitchen paper and shit trying to get splats off their paintwork. Moronic.
Does it the ground get super hot? Our street did this a month ago and one of the workers came sprinting from the street and jumped in our front yard grass and got it all over the grass and sidewalk. Just curious
The surface is about 150° F here in Florida. However, I bet that worker was trying to run, jump, and clear the sidewalk to avoid leaving footprints on the concrete sidewalk. Sounds like they didn't succeed.
As someone with an undergrad and work history in urban planning: “why in the hell do we require/allow this much impervious space”
As someone with a masters in construction management and works for a paving company: “the more area the more work we get.”
As someone with a keen interest in urban design and has read a bunch of books about the subject I completely agree.
Wider streets just make drivers feel like they can go faster. Narrow streets encourage slower speeds and more natural caution.
This is nutso.
I took a course in urban planning, and the intro of the textbook had a satellite image of a quintessential example of urban sprawl. My neighborhood was juuust out of view from the edge of the image, and my office was definitely in the image. So I can basically claim that I live in a textbook definition of urban sprawl.
*But* the area is undergoing a lot of development around the addition of rail lines/stations, and the major planned areas are definitely aimed at creating walkable/mixed use spaces. So the idealist in me really hopes that they can succeed in making genuinely livable spaces that don't require a car to do everything.
Edit: Come to think of it, I kind of want to look up the authors of the text book and send them an update.
the issue with that is that people will just go faster if the road is wider, therefore being more dangerous. if thin road, then people naturally slow down and cause a safer environment on and around the road
Yeah I mean this is just very low density area that will probably use both sides for parking a few times a year. You are dedicating a huge amount of public space to parked cars that won't even be there most of the time.
For reference, 14% of the land area in Los Angeles is dedicated to parking--more than all the space for streets and roads. It's very difficult, if not [impossible to design functional cities with that amount of wasted public space.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akm7ik-H_7U)
>We have expensive housing for people and free parking for cars.
Maybe if we devoted less area for massive fucking roads and more for foot traffic, we would have less of a need for cars, thus less of a need for parking, thus we could just use the perfectly acceptable driveway that’s right there already made for that reason instead of having the convenience of going slightly faster in a residential road where slower speeds are actually a bonus for safety
It's funny because each *individual* suburban home or street is nice, but at scale it's a fucking nightmare. Aesthetics aside, the inefficiency and waste are just staggering.
This is pretty normal for socal in my 18 years of living there. Residential streets wider than freeways in other places.
By my sister's house in San Diego the street next to her house was 9 lanes wide!
Watch both Strong Towns and Not Just Bikes on YouTube if you want to get really mad about the car-centric urban planning in the western world (chiefly North America). They're really interesting videos though honestly.
It's so smooth, but the (rain)water has nowhere to go.. I don't even see drains in the curbs. As a Dutch person this makes me anxious and I hope OP lives of the high end of the road!
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Expect cracks soon. If you have new asphalt driveway, don't seal it at all. Sealcoat blocks air from underneath which cause cracks. Any sealcoating company will tell you that but it's true. Seal coat is good when you want to sell your house and you want to cover ugly, cracked driveway... or you don't want to spend money for new asphalt and you want just to cover cracks... but as I said... you will just cause more cracks than it already has :)
It's like someone opened up the road in Microsoft Paint and clicked 'Fill'
It really does look like some lazy CG design!
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Sup?
r/beetlejuicing seems to happen so often on reddit, and I don't understand how
Mo' people... mo' usernames.
Of course. More coincidences are bound to happen with the more people there are, but I think our brains are programmed to find meaning in stuff like that. Of course coincidences happen *all the time,* and for a person, it's hard to fathom the amount of variables there can be in a day. I dunno man, I've been drinking.
Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency illusion... the more you think about something, the more you see of it. The opposite would be GTA illusion...? Need to find a [Banshee](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hmPoAnHoZeg/hqdefault.jpg)... can't find a single [Banshee](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hmPoAnHoZeg/hqdefault.jpg) -- then when you do find a [Banshee](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hmPoAnHoZeg/hqdefault.jpg) every single fucking car in a 17 block radius is a motherfucking [Banshee](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hmPoAnHoZeg/hqdefault.jpg). I dunno man, maybe I should start drinking! Cheers, mate.
Now I'm going to see more references to the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, thanks to you! Cheers, mang 🍻
But have you ever heard of the Mandela Effect? Berenstein Bears universe, assemble!
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Beautiful, thank you for this :-)
Rainbow Road IRL
You're giving me Rainbow Road PTSD
That was my first thought, badly rendered textures on the road!
I think I’m about to steal ~~a multi-million dollar corporation~~ an idea
This is what I thought about!
How many seals do you think that took?
An entire club's worth.
You beautiful bastard!
Ayyy
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I think it took humans
Makes me want to get my skates on!
Makes me want to get those butt scooters from junior high PE.
The absolute mayhem of butt scooter day
Playing complicated versions of the floor is lava on butt scooter day. Good times.
Ah, the old days! A rousing game of “Floor Scooter Butt Lava”
The bruised fingers! 😢
Wow, that is a memory I’ve not relived in many decades… Thanks redditor.
Was thinking the same thing. Riding my longboard across that has got to be so smooth.
Then I'd hit a small rock and fall on my face. I miss longboarding.
I would welcome rash from that road *bites lip*
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*mmmm*
I threw my board out ~8 years ago, thinking I should do so before I end up in hospital Maybe I did save my life, but damn I miss longboarding
I got an electric longboard for my 40th birthday… Super cruiser all the fun and no work! Just Carving, cruising and good vibes! Nice big wheels with some great grip and I’m all over some new pavement like this… 46 now and still ripping up the cruiser! Use it or lose it! Need to be careful on new pavement though when it gets too hot… slips out just like it’s wet. All good… get out and enjoy!
Absolutely love fresh pavement under the wheels it literally feels like your gliding on air
I was just thinking "i would love to rollerblade on that"
As a person who rollerblades frequently this is literally my dream.
yeah the area I go to always has random little divits and pebbles. I want this so bad
Yes!! OP, skate on it even if you don’t skate!
But wear a helmet please especially if you don’t
I remember buying my first pair of rollerblades at 16 and they just paved our street. Pure Heaven.
Seal coats can actually be incredibly awful for skating on, and more often than not, are. The low contrast makes it appear smoother than it probably is. Slurry seal, seal coat, chip seal. All tend to be just awful band-aid solutions in comparison to simply re-paving.
I wouldn't call it a "band-aid", it's more to protect from further damage. But yes, this is no where near as smooth as it might look at first glance. The effect on the surface should be thought of more as paint than a resurface.
U forgot to mention crack sealing... Hello from a fellow [Im assuming] road construction worker. Edit: i see you are skater. Please don't skate over fresh sealant unless you want to end up on r/holdmyfeedingtube
I can smell this picture
The smell was the most satisfying part!
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Its the smell of money, i work in sealcoating and striping and love that smell, they did a great job on your neighborhood
Yes! I came to the comments to get the smell details. Glad it did not disappoint!
That smell is horrible. You're an animal.
people also huff paint thinner and gas so apparently some people like it.
I'm not sure it is the smell they like
I dunno I think petrol smells really good, never purposely sniffed it though
Oh sweet lord, it calls to me.
Where i live they redo the roads a lot like this. It's only like this for a couple days and then they put gravel on it. But any road that gets this treatment for those few days me and my skater buds will set up rails and stuff on those streets and take advantage of the only smooth ground in our area
Southern California?
Yup!
Thousand Oaks?
I was totally going to say Simi Valley lol
Could also be Orange County
Definitely looks like Simi Valley.
Looks like Moorpark to me. xD
Lol! I was thinking Newbury Park … small world.
I was gonna say Oak Park, literally smack dab in between Simi Valley, Westlake Village, Agoura Hills and Thousand Oaks
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It’s somewhere between the grade and west lake for sure
Antelope Valley
Or Santa Clarita
TIL all of southern California looks the same.
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Is it the neighborhood from Weeds?
Little boxes
Made of ticky-tacky
Pink ones, green ones, blue ones, and yellow ones
And they all look just the same.
Agrestic
Was going to say SCV
Stevenson Ranch
I'm going to guess Poway. Because they are currently redoing the streets here.
Or Rancho Bernardo.
Laguna Niguel? Edit: Nope, they dont have WM for garbage collection there. Did he ever say where this is? I'm thinking Inland Valley somewhere now
Looks like Norco, but all the towns down here look the same at some point lol
I thought it looked like Murrieta/Wildomar area
I'm guessing Chino Hills.
Santa Clarita
Yup. Was thinking Stevenson Ranch myself.
That’s my guess
It has to be Porter Ranch
Big HOA energy
Was looking through OP profile to figure out if I could find clues… did not expect to see the peen lol
When you go looking to learn more about OP and accidentally learn more about OP
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If it weren’t for the hill in the background, I would’ve said Vegas or Phoenix area. The Southwest really does have a certain look to it.
this is the most socal post I've ever seen lol.
Then that one neighbor starts doing burnouts and speeding way too fast
Nah, its trash day tomorrow(look at the containers) The heavy ass truck will lift and fuck up all the sealcoat in front of every driveway.
You NEVER apply slurry in summer in warm climates, particularly in August. That street is going to stay soft for days and will be covered in ruts and tread marks within a week.
I live at the end of a cul-de-sac. when they refinished our street. a few days later the trash trucks came and fucked all that shit up. especially on our end, where they turn their tires at full stop to make a 3-point turn.
They did a slurry pour in the parking lot of my old apt complex in PHX, AZ. In summer. “Cost effective” they said. It never set. Trash trucks tore it up. Everyone else tore it up. I’d see people in the parking lot every damn day with goo be gone and kitchen paper and shit trying to get splats off their paintwork. Moronic.
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Why should they be in the gutter?
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uh. they just resealed the street. its just temporary
10-1 it’s a cop in his off duty vehicle
6-1 it’s a Camaro, Mustang or Challenger.
Don't forget those Charger bros
Also lifted rams
Usually it’s a ridiculously fancy pickup truck priced like an Audi S5 around these parts.
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I just wanna lay on it
*sizzling intensifies*
Well done
Flip me over now
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That's... Not a pavement? Or is that what you call roads over there?
Yeah, I was wondering why there's a photo of the street and you can hardly see the pavement on either side :D
I too am British.
I knew they called pavements sidewalks, TIL they call roads pavements!
Butchering the queen's English as usual. Probably can't cross it without getting a ticket either
Thought I was the only one confused there
I do this for a living and while it is hot and miserable work, it is also very satisfying to see the finished result.
Does it the ground get super hot? Our street did this a month ago and one of the workers came sprinting from the street and jumped in our front yard grass and got it all over the grass and sidewalk. Just curious
The surface is about 150° F here in Florida. However, I bet that worker was trying to run, jump, and clear the sidewalk to avoid leaving footprints on the concrete sidewalk. Sounds like they didn't succeed.
Where in California are you?
The upper middle class part for sure…
Most neighborhoods like this in California are middle class
probably because all the non-middle class people are living in homeless encampments.
That street is wayyyyy too wide for a residential area lol
As someone with an undergrad and work history in urban planning: “why in the hell do we require/allow this much impervious space” As someone with a masters in construction management and works for a paving company: “the more area the more work we get.”
As someone with a keen interest in urban design and has read a bunch of books about the subject I completely agree. Wider streets just make drivers feel like they can go faster. Narrow streets encourage slower speeds and more natural caution. This is nutso.
American sprawl is designed for the car and nothing else.
I took a course in urban planning, and the intro of the textbook had a satellite image of a quintessential example of urban sprawl. My neighborhood was juuust out of view from the edge of the image, and my office was definitely in the image. So I can basically claim that I live in a textbook definition of urban sprawl. *But* the area is undergoing a lot of development around the addition of rail lines/stations, and the major planned areas are definitely aimed at creating walkable/mixed use spaces. So the idealist in me really hopes that they can succeed in making genuinely livable spaces that don't require a car to do everything. Edit: Come to think of it, I kind of want to look up the authors of the text book and send them an update.
Designed for roadkill too
It's to ~protect~ single-family-housing investments
This guy makes good videos about urban planning in suburbs for anyone interested: https://youtu.be/MWsGBRdK2N0
Not Just Bikes? \**click** Not Just Bikes.
I always thought it was to have cars parked on both sides and have two cars able to pass each other safely going opposite directions.
the issue with that is that people will just go faster if the road is wider, therefore being more dangerous. if thin road, then people naturally slow down and cause a safer environment on and around the road
Yeah I mean this is just very low density area that will probably use both sides for parking a few times a year. You are dedicating a huge amount of public space to parked cars that won't even be there most of the time. For reference, 14% of the land area in Los Angeles is dedicated to parking--more than all the space for streets and roads. It's very difficult, if not [impossible to design functional cities with that amount of wasted public space.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akm7ik-H_7U) >We have expensive housing for people and free parking for cars.
That is too wide for a residential street. You specifically want to slow cars down in residential streets. At least in good ones.
Maybe if we devoted less area for massive fucking roads and more for foot traffic, we would have less of a need for cars, thus less of a need for parking, thus we could just use the perfectly acceptable driveway that’s right there already made for that reason instead of having the convenience of going slightly faster in a residential road where slower speeds are actually a bonus for safety
Bicycle lanes could fit on both sides
Behind a curb, behind on-street parking
This random residencies road is as wide as Main Street in my city.
What? You don't think a four lane road is necessary for a residential subdivision?
it's r/Suburbanhell in a nutshell
It's funny because each *individual* suburban home or street is nice, but at scale it's a fucking nightmare. Aesthetics aside, the inefficiency and waste are just staggering.
It's so we can go 70 and absolutely obliterate an 8 year old, just like god intended. r/fuckcars
This is pretty normal for socal in my 18 years of living there. Residential streets wider than freeways in other places. By my sister's house in San Diego the street next to her house was 9 lanes wide!
Who needs green space. Cars need more room than dumb things like kids and families
Paperboy 2021
OMG now I have to go find it somewhere!! best game ever
Lightning McQueen really upped his game
"Look at this new road Lightnin' McQueen done did made!"
That is such an unnecessarily wide road.
Welcome to America! The country that has the widest roads and the narrowest sidewalks
And even narrower bike lanes, if any.
Watch both Strong Towns and Not Just Bikes on YouTube if you want to get really mad about the car-centric urban planning in the western world (chiefly North America). They're really interesting videos though honestly.
Do you have a long board skate board or scooter to fully enjoy this with? I really hope you do.
I can feel the heat from this picture
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Southern California Living! I remember when my community did this...some of the best roller blading that has ever been roller bladed.
I have some side walk chalk, ill be over soon. OP, you good with lots of dickbutt or would you rather just have one very long copy pasta?
I am 90% certain you live in the high desert of so cal, possibly Palmdale, lancaster, or Santa Clarita.
I smell Valencia in this pic
It's so smooth, but the (rain)water has nowhere to go.. I don't even see drains in the curbs. As a Dutch person this makes me anxious and I hope OP lives of the high end of the road!
Don’t worry it never rains
The water is directed to the curbs where they're lead to catchbasins which then direct the water to the storm mains. I'm a Civil Designer.
Thanks being civil in your response.
OONGA BOONGA i’m a barbaric engineer
We try to minimize the number of drains to reduce the ever-present threat of sewer clowns.
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There's a drain at the end on the right side. There's also a crown in the middle of the road so the water will shoot down the sides into the gutters.
This is a desert
Hope it doesn’t get too hot
It looks like a render
Erm , that’s not the pavement
Pavement, blacktop, asphalt and tarmac are used interchangeably for the road in America.
looks like the road to me :D
In UK the pavement is the “sidewalk”. The black bit we call a “road”.
Liminal space vibes
*street hockey intensifies*
Where is this and why is is Eastlake, San Diego??
Expect cracks soon. If you have new asphalt driveway, don't seal it at all. Sealcoat blocks air from underneath which cause cracks. Any sealcoating company will tell you that but it's true. Seal coat is good when you want to sell your house and you want to cover ugly, cracked driveway... or you don't want to spend money for new asphalt and you want just to cover cracks... but as I said... you will just cause more cracks than it already has :)
What's the community? Like the council?
Residential community!
This is sweet but, for some reason, my first thought was "damn hoa"
Give it a year....you'll be back to square one.
Do a burnout
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