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At 12:30 today we had to drive to the park by the bridge in MtP. From the interior of Park West (actually from the PW Blvd/GreyMarsh circle) it took 17 minutes to get to the park.
Just wanted to provide another example of real world driving times.
The new lanes help a lot.
Thats about a 15-17 mile trip. Meaning at a mile per minute, you'd be doing 60mph.
There is absolutely NO WAY you went from deep in Park West, drove 60mph all the way to the park, without hitting one traffic light.
So you are either lying, or you drove 70-80 mph in a 35-45 mph construction zone. But seeing how most Mt P people drive, you may have been doing just that.
But you didnt legally get from interior PW to the waterfront park in 17 minutes at 1230. You didnt do it...unless you drove like a maniac AND got all the green lights.
Thats about a 15-17 mile trip. Meaning at a mile per minute, you'd be doing 60mph.
There is absolutely NO WAY you went from deep in Park West, drove 60mph all the way to the park, without hitting one traffic light.
So you are either lying, or you drove 70-80 mph in a 35-45 mph construction zone. But seeing how most Mt P people drive, you may have been doing just that.
But you didnt legally get from interior PW to the waterfront park in 17 minutes at 1230. You didnt do it...unless you drove like a maniac AND got all the green lights.
It's 11.7 miles. At 45 miles an hour it would take about 14.5 minutes. Give a few minutes for stop lights and 17 minutes sounds right to me. I haven't seen any 35 mile/per limits in weeks. If you are going to call someone a liar at least pull out a calculator first.
It's 11.7 miles. At 45 miles an hour it would take about 14.5 minutes. Give a few minutes for stop lights and 17 minutes sounds right to me. I haven't seen any 35 mile/per limits in weeks. If you are going to call someone a liar at least pull out a calculator first.
Roxanne, it is 11.7 miles from the gate to gate(no real gates involved just using that as a point of reference), I believe that Cape has said that he lives insde of park west so that will add a few minutes. To average 45mph over a 12 mile trip you would have to do about 50~55 mph once you got up to speed from the light, need to use the mean speed not the average or we could get real real indepth and look at the standard deviation in speed and then throw in some more calculus ontop of that and he still would have had to make all of the 10~15 traffic lights almost perfectly.....
LOL...two days in a row from the bridge to north MtP...one day 15mins...the next day 17 mins.
The trip yesterday was 10 miles...today 11 miles (going to different places). Do the math if you want. The reality is some of you people believe what you want and throw facts out the window.
Will this happen at any time of the day, or even every day? Certainly not. But it does happen more times than not.
Speeding? I'm one of the few people who drive around here at the speed limit. Especially since it's a construction zone...which is 45mph the entire way on 17 (except for that one 35mph sign they have neglected to take down driving north at the 526 overpass).
Today, @45mph, the non-stop trip works out to 14.6 minutes on the calculator. Take into consideration a short stint of 35mph in PW and a handful of stoplights...add 2.5 minutes it comes up with the actual 17 minutes it took us.
If we go that route tomorrow for something, I'll try to remember to time it AGAIN. LoL
Last edited by cape_fisherman; 01-24-2013 at 05:42 PM..
OK... just took the same route as is being mentioned.. from the bridge to the PW Blvd/Grey Marsh circle.. (hey you can call it a round a bout... I call something round a circle
Came off the bridge 9pm and started clocking at North Honicutt, which I was stopped by its traffic light and started clocking it stopped waiting for that light. Hit 4 more lights along the way... 5 lights in total and did mainly 45mph.. but increased it as everyone does/was higher up as we drove 17 to like 50 I would say.
(cannot drive any faster that 50 anyway... my 14 year old car starts to shake rattle and roll at higher speeds)
Came to the PW Blvd/Grey Marsh circle... err round about and clocked in at 19 minutes in time... used stop watch.
Almost no traffic to contend with as it was 9pm...and it took 19 minutes.
Anything less time wise ... with 'any' daytime traffic, school, shopping, tourists, construction etc. means ya gotz ta not hit any lights I guess.
19 minutes at 9pm.. so I can easily imagine longer time wise anytime during the day
Anyway......... what ever it takes it takes I am happy with the times........... short road relatively and so one hits some 'traffic' here and there... but it is not lengthy traffic... over in a few lights etc.
The day before I wasn't driving the BMW...or the Hummer (actually don't have one of those...had to lobby the MtP Town Council to let us live here w/o one).
On that trip I had to settle for the 2500 Avalanche. It rides better than the BMW.
Roxanne, it is 11.7 miles from the gate to gate(no real gates involved just using that as a point of reference), I believe that Cape has said that he lives insde of park west so that will add a few minutes. To average 45mph over a 12 mile trip you would have to do about 50~55 mph once you got up to speed from the light, need to use the mean speed not the average or we could get real real indepth and look at the standard deviation in speed and then throw in some more calculus ontop of that and he still would have had to make all of the 10~15 traffic lights almost perfectly.....
Well I didn't drive it, I just Google mapped it from Graymarsh circle to the park and Google maps said 11.7 miles. If they're wrong then that's my bad. I thought that if it was on the Internet it had to be true. However I just drove from Charleston national to the park and it took me exactly 16 minutes at 9:30 in the morning. I know I wasn't speeding because I am driving on a donut tire and my car makes a very annoying sound if I hit 50 and it never made that sound. I did hit a few traffic lights but not many. I could certainly see where if you got unlucky and hit all the lights the trip could be considerably longer. This is really a stupid argument anyway, it just offends me when someone says that we must be either drunk or lying just because his experience on the road is different than ours.
FYI Al, I am absolutely giving this math problem to my math geek child to solve. He'll be giddy! For me it just gave me a headache even contemplating it.
Last edited by roxanneself; 01-25-2013 at 08:12 AM..
I did some timing myself this morning. I purposefully went through Park West instead of out the back down 41 like I usually do... man that was a mistake, but here's the stats:
Left at 7:47 this morning
My house to Grey Marsh roundabout: 10 minutes (behind busses loading kids and heavy traffic)
Grey Marsh roundabout to Park West & 17 (busses, traffic going into schools): 7 minutes 30 seconds
PW & 17 to Houston Northcutt & 17: 15 minutes and 50 seconds
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