u/Kootenay4

If you got to the 4 way stop first, you don’t need to yield to cyclists. Bikes are legally treated the same as cars in these situations. The first one to arrive at the stop sign goes first.

As a cyclist myself, while I appreciate what might be a polite gesture, the confusion this causes is actually pretty dangerous. I‘ve nearly had my life ended twice in the last year because some joker thought it would be funny to “yield“ to me, then attempt to strike me with their car when I passed in front of them. I’m not talking about distracted driving, I’m talking about someone who intentionally tried to hit me. Thankfully the first incident I only got clipped while the other narrowly missed.

It’s impossible to tell between a driver acting in good faith, and some psycho who gets off on terrifying random strangers. So please, just take the right of way and go. You don’t have to go out of the way to be courteous. Just be safe and abide by the law.

I’m looking for recommendations in the Eureka area, who can come out and assess a structure, and give me a quote for bringing it up to code.

I am planning on converting a 2 car detached garage into a 1 bed 1 bath. I would be doing all of the interior work and finishes myself; what I mainly need is a licensed contractor with experience in foundation/exterior/drainage.

If anyone has experience with doing a garage conversion or knows someone who has, i would appreciate your comments as well!

Thanks!

Hi! I'm wondering what the most typical/standard/practical approach is to bring a detached garage up to code for an ADU. I've previously built a tiny home from the ground up, but that was new construction, and renovation is a whole different beast as I am finding out.

My first concern is that garages are slab on grade, and residential code requires more clearance between the soil and wood framing/siding. Is the only solution to jack up the entire structure and pour a concrete stem wall? Or could I just pour a concrete apron around the structure with a slight outward slope? Or dig a French drain around the perimeter?

Also, I don't know if this garage slab has a vapor barrier underneath (probably not). Would it be fine as long as I install a vapor barrier under the flooring?

I would love to see a good example/explainer of a garage-to-ADU conversion that is legal and actually meets code. A lot of the stuff I'm finding online about garage conversions feels kinda dubious...

The sentiment is everywhere. "Hub and spoke sucks." "It's stupid to only have every line go downtown." "There should be more suburban lines."

Why the hate? The hub and spoke is the natural product of how American cities are laid out, with a single downtown surrounded by endless low density sprawl. The reason transit systems are designed that way is cost-benefit analysis. It's just statistically much more likely for John Doe in Suburb A to have a reason to travel downtown, rather than to Suburb B. While lots of people do commute between suburbs, the density of jobs/attractions is just not great enough in any given location to justify the expense of a transit line. Transit works poorly when the destinations are dispersed like they are in American suburbs.

But, one might say, "what about the great transit cities in the world like London or Tokyo or Paris, those aren't hub and spoke systems at all?" Why yes, they are. They're a bunch of hub and spoke systems in a trench coat. When you take a dozen hub-and-spokes and stack them on top of each other, they naturally form a web of crisscrossing lines. The reason these cities' networks are so dense is because they have way more hubs, not because they have more suburban lines crossing the spokes.

Take Tokyo, it doesn't have a single "downtown", you have Marunouchi, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Ikebukuro, etc. all huge business centers and transport hubs. If you studied a map of Tokyo and traced only the train services coming out of a single one of those stations, you'd find what looks suspiciously like a hub and spoke (though at this point, disentangling the spaghetti can be a serious challenge itself).

If American cities want to move towards a more decentralized transit model, first they have to develop more hubs outside downtown. Otherwise, transit lines connecting low density suburbs will only ever be a waste of resources. There aren't really many examples of truly polycentric cities in the US, with multiple strong hubs outside of the original center that drive large amounts of commuter and leisure traffic. NYC, LA, and maybe DC are probably the only serious examples.

I know federal funding got canceled, but has there been any activity on the county or state level lately in regards to the wind project? I haven’t been able to find any information about whether it’s still ongoing, has been canceled or just delayed.

I’m NOT asking for conspiracy theories, I’ve seen and heard more than enough of those already, and I’m not looking to start another argument on the pros and cons or for politics to get dragged in. Pretty please. Just factual information If anyone knows or has heard anything.