{"id":3139,"date":"2014-09-02T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2014-09-02T10:55:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T14:55:35","slug":"new-obstacles-on-the-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2014\/09\/new-obstacles-on-the-course\/","title":{"rendered":"New Obstacles on the course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3140 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0207-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0207\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0207-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0207-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0207.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Hope you all had a happy Labor day. Because of it, we took the day off from our Monday posts, so now we&#8217;re giving you a Tuesday post.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you that have contacts at CMU, you might have already heard about this. Having taken a walk down there myself this weekend, I saw what all the buzz was about. The City has added new bike lanes to Schenley drive which interferes from around the stop sign, all the way past the chute flag. This will be a new obstacle for drivers this year, but fortunately, sweepstakes was notified and instead of the permanent posts that the city was planning on using, they opted for the more expensive removable option placing the difference in price on sweepstakes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This adds a new chore to buggy mornings similar to the haybales. Every morning, these posts will have to be unscrewed and the hole in the pavement will be capped. Rolls will also have to end slightly earlier to allow time for the posts to be reinserted, but hopefully not more than 10 minutes or so.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3141 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0209-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0209\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0209-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0209-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0209.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I tested out the removal of these posts, and so long as the threads aren&#8217;t too tight, they can be unscrewed from the top without needing to bend down. The remaining hole is no larger than many of the potholes that used to litter the course and will get plugged by a plastic insert. I do not yet know the shape of the insert, so if anyone knows how much it might stick up\/out, please share.<\/p>\n<p>The last bit that people have been talking about are the new paint lines. Just like most fresh road paint, the lines are thick and are definitely noticeable, but this is something that buggies and drivers should have no problem dealing with since they have already been doing that with the center road lines. The only difference is that these will probably stay thicker longer since there won&#8217;t be cars constantly driving over them.<\/p>\n<p>There is also some new thick green traction paint by each crosswalk. There&#8217;s only one area that might affect the buggy course, but after testing it out with my bicycle, it will likely make a difference for some teams. That difference may just be that the diver get&#8217;s tossed around a bit more, or it could be an area that slows teams down. We&#8217;ll only know for sure when the teams hit\u00a0the course late September and actually try rolling on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope you all had a happy Labor day. Because of it, we took the day off from our Monday posts, so now we&#8217;re giving you a Tuesday post. For those of you that have contacts at CMU, you might have already heard about this. Having taken a walk down there myself this weekend, I saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest-buggy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3144,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}