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01-24-2007, 3:20 PM dcunited001 Joined on 01-25-2007 Roanoke, VA Posts 1 Alternative transportation solutions..     Hi, I've just completed the RVARC survey at a kiosk here at Virginia Western and it's exciting to see that people are working to provide alternative systems of transportation to the Roanoke valley.  I have grown weary of hearing all of this talk over the past few years about adding a few lanes to I-81 and concerning the illusive I-73.  I believe we should be thinking outside of the box.  Adding lanes will be expensive, and at best, it will only stave off crowded roads for a few years.  The problem, in my opinion, is not that the roads are not wide enough, but driving itself.      It is an inherently dangerous form of transportation.  Everyday, we threaten our own lives, the lives of others, and the lives of our children, by getting simply getting onto the roads.  We may be perfect drivers ourselves, but it doesn't matter due to the businessmen who are constantly on their cellphones, the people changing clothes while driving, the makeup artists, the raging road warriors, and god forbid those that would drink/drug and drive. Everyday, we put our lives, our future on the line, just to get to work, just to get a bite to eat, just to go see a movie.  But there is no viable alternative to this.  To simply live our lives in our world, we must drive.     Imagine, if you will, a region that provides some cheap and easily accessible alternative to driving.  There would be no more excuse for people to drive drunk or high, to be focusing more on their conference call than the road, to put their and other's lives at risk to get to work.   There would be no more frusterating traffic stops, car insurance itself would become a thing of the past.  The police and courts would be able to focus on more important crime.  Oil that is wasted on gasoline could be used for heating instead, and would be much cheaper if we could reduce demand.  The smog that stains the skys of our area would vanish, and so would the respiratory problems it causes.  Our cities would become more dense, as there would be much less of a demand for parking space.  Think of all the lives that have been ruined by auto accidents, suspended licenses, and the insurance rates, mechanical fees and hospital bills to high to be paid.     But driving is too deeply engrained in our society.  Perhaps it is naive and utopic for me to even bring these points up.  And after all, there are positive aspects to driving.  We do not need to plan our days around a bus or subway schedule.  Our roads provide quick access for emergency vehicles.  There are certain situations were driving is needed.  I am not advocating that we totally remove it from our lives. But instead, that we marginalize it and look for alternative solutions.     I believe the first step would be to beef up the bus system and its routes.  Make it cheaper and easier for those who do not want to or cannot drive to get to work.  I used to have to travel back and forth from Tech and Salem and I found the Smartway bus to be a great stress-free way to travel and even get a little homework done.     I am also interested in seeing the Greenway Project expand.  I believe that this will provide an alternative to some.     The ultimate step in marginalizing driving, however, would be a subway system across the Roanoke Valley and its outlying areas.  This would provide a cheap method for people to get to where they need to go without putting themselves at risk.  This would definately free up the roads around roanoke.  This would even prevent the need for expanding 81 and 581, as it would eliminate most of the local traffic on those roads.  Doing this would bring our city closer together.  It would free up our roads for those that absolutely have to use them.  There would be no more excuse for those staying too late at the bars to drive home.  Yes, there's no doubt in my mind that this would be very expenisive to implement.  But think of the money and time and lives it would save in the long run.    Report

02-22-2007, 9:14 AM Mark RVARC Joined on 02-22-2007 Posts 4 Re: Alternative transportation solutions.. Thank you dcunited001 for providing input to both the kiosk and the online forums.  The kiosk will be at Virginia Western until March 2, 2007.  Afte that it will head to the DMV office at Crossroads Mall for a couple of months.  Please tell your friends about the kiosk.  Also, one strategy to get the most out of the roads that we have is to rideshare.  Go to www.ridesolutions.org for more information.  RIDESolutions is a free public service.    Report

03-07-2007, 2:34 PM Mark RVARC Joined on 02-22-2007 Posts 4 Re: Alternative transportation solutions.. Greetings forum posters.  I will be out of the office from March 8 to March 23, 2007.  I will gladly reply to your posts when I am back in the office. Best Regards, Mark McCaskill    Report

07-13-2007, 7:38 AM PrimeMover Joined on 07-13-2007 Posts 11 Re: Alternative transportation solutions.. dcunited, those are some good albeit rather pie in the sky objectives. People seem to be getting worse in those activites than improving. Perhaps people are BORED with driving just as you seem to be. I've been in a few accidents so when they get in one they won't be bored any longer. Trust me. In my opinion people aren't processing information as sharply as they should and that isn't dissing THE PUBLIC. Pollution from vehicles adds much airborne lead into our bloodstreams and lungs, directly routing straightway into the brain. So it would help if we build I-73 and do something with moving the traffic at a steadier clip to prevent people getting bored. Also expediting through traffic through Roanoke faster lessens the amount of pollution they drop into our breathing air. I-73 was stopped partly because the east side or west side couldn't be decided upon. And the residents on the Salem side were told they would be subjected to 9 months stead of dirt dust truck and grader fumes and overall, a total disruption of their lives and harming their health, not to mention property values going south. So I was thinking, why not just do the I-73 South lanes on the Salem side and the I-73 North on the east side of Roanoke. This would shorten construction time considerably with Full Crews working one set of southbound lanes, lessening all those issues of the residents, resulting a much smaller footprint (which would have less effect on property values from less footprint + less road noise). Of course a lower speed limit for that section would also contribute to less noise from passing traffic vibration. But prime in my mind is to expedite traffic through Roanoke as quickly as possible for those who have not the time or intention to stop & shop. When they want to stop, they know we're here. You have to have Faith in people's appetite, Faith in people's need to make a pit stop. Now you mentioned road repairs and I'm glad you did, because I-581's road surface would last a decade or more longer with reduced traffic running over on the I-73 South extension, saving enough future monies to pay for the much of what I am suggesting be done in this post. For Interstate 81 an idea was tabled some time ago for an upper deck roadway that would give light cars and motorcycles, non-commercial traffic to travel separated away from the big rigs. Such lightweight vehicles would require half the support structure for the ground level heavy traffic. It would be like erecting a Parkway over the interstate. Many people know of my ideas but so far apparently not the "right people". But the upper deck could be designed by Virginia Tech students & teachers. It would make a great project for next year's engineering classes 2007-2008. It could be made as a fully smart road with all the electronic doodad systems they've been wanting to put in one long stretch of interstate highway. Once all that is done a new factory or two could be set in place, maybe even near Virginia Tech or even on VT-owned land, so that many students would get hands-on experience and make some bucks too. Sections of interlocking prefab upper deck could then be trucked to location and set in place within 15-20 minutes per section, maybe less, which wouldn't bother traffic flow if done at other than peak traffic flow times of day. As a result, Interstate 81 could have almost a doubled traffic capacity traveling at a much safer, separated-from-trucks driving experience. And the truck drivers would like that too. So what you said in your post is achievable, where you indicated a resistance to roads being patched. You wanted long term solutions that save money and moves traffic -with its pollution- past Roanoke at a decent pace. Not to mention you also mentioned a need to save fuel for heating. Well? Diesel fuel is #2 heating oil; move the trucks, have more fuel. Most "consultants" say I-81 will take 10-15 years to expand, or more. They are all wet. Such a prefab system could be finished the entire length of I-81 in less than 5 years. Which if I recall that was what you wanted, some ideas that come from outside the box. Well, that's where I live. All doable. Oh, btw. Norfolk and Southern can still have their intermodal yard. That finishes tying the bow. But one thing about N & S placing their new intermodal operation in downtown Roanoke is that a great increase in pollution would be centered into the downtown resident's breathing space, plus coating the buildings with increased diesel soot. By building I-73, diverting much traffic from traversing I-581, an equalization of pollution would be realized. This would give Hayes Seay Mattern & Mattern and others plenty design time to build Roanoke's new buildings overtop the N & S downtown tracks -where the soot control equipment can be hung underneath- providing much new real estate for development, redesign & revitalization of the entire downtown Roanoke area ... and greatly increasing the value of everyone's Norfolk & Southern stock portfolios as well as their own wealth, and more of what the railroad has always liked, a bigger oversight over Roanoke activities, a return to the yesteryear they miss when N & S {N & W} first made this town. They can have that again. The new buildings over the downtown tracks could house many places so many forward-thinking Roanokers have been wanting for Roanoke. The Science Museum could be re-located or expanded to there. Perhaps a few gyms, pools, expanded YMCA/YWCA, Gold's Gym complex, and restaurants? Maybe one really nice restaurant that would define Roanoke for a long time, and pull some of those travelers off Interstate-581 where they can relax, visit the Science Museum, view the stars at night. Hmm, almost sounds romantic. All this can easily happen dcunited, once you get people out of the box. We all really can "get along". You just have to set your gaze beyond the inside of the box. ....    Report

07-18-2007, 9:54 AM Mark Joined on 02-08-2006 Posts 1 Re: Alternative transportation solutions.. Thank you PrimeMover for your comments. Please consider the potential of technology in managing traffic flow on regular streets.  An illustration of some of these technologies and their potential for our area can be found at the following link: http://www.rvarc.org/trans/ITS%20Visualization%20HTML/ITS%20Visualization.html Also, to my knowledge "Downtown Roanoke" is not under consideration for the Heartland Corridor site.  The City of Salem has recently requested that NS consider a site in the industrial section of Salem. Following your comments about an upper deck for I-81, reversible lanes in the median may be another solution.  These reversible lanes are illustrated in the following report: http://www.rvarc.org/work/I81TierIIcomments.pdf The reversible lanes would use technology to reverse the direction of the lanes depending on time of day, congestion, events or other factors. Are you aware of the pre-fabricated light vehicle upper decks you mention being implemented in the U.S. or abroad?  If you are please post a link to this forum.    Report

07-20-2007, 5:53 AM PrimeMover Joined on 07-13-2007 Posts 11 Re: Alternative transportation solutions.. Mark, those other ideas - http://www.rvarc.org/trans/ITS%20Visualization%20HTML/ITS%20Visualization.html - would take me a good while to read through and make another comprehensive post. I'm sure a lot of good ideas are on the table besides mine but the elevated real estate over the N & S downtown tracks idea for expanding Roanoke is valid whether the intermodal yards go to Salem or not. It also increases the value of Norfolk & Southern stock so it is a WIN-WIN. However, Salem being to Roanoke's west is upwind so if the yard operation along with all the excess truck traffic goes to Salem it still means Roanoke residents and Roanoke property is going to take a pollution beating, getting DAMAGED EVERY DAY 24/7 from the awesome quantities of airborne diesel pollutants which are an AWESOME TONNAGE. Roanoke greenery, flowers, trees will die the death. And the residents? Increasing the hospital beds at Roanoke Memorial is what I call an "after the facts" solution: after emphysema rates, asthma rates, lead-polluted-brains rates is elevated a hospital bed is a poor solution if a better solution comes from me or anyone else only getting shelved just because the operation is in Salem. I would have written the same thing if the operation had been placed further west so this has little to do with dissing a Salem Plan. It has to do with protecting human life in Roanoke and Vinton. It has to do with why 40% of adults in Roanoke are illiterate. Diesel soot is a very fine airborne powder (unless it is raining) and it infiltrates everything living that breathes it including the plants and pets and wildlife, the birds. Mill Mountain escapes it because it is higher up but the heavy metal molecules in diesel exhaust floods low, pressing oxygen up higher. We all breathe the heavy stuff down next to the ground. Reversible lanes will soak taxpayers 200% or more what a prefabricated upper deck would cost droning on the dust and the dirt taking 250+% the time to build, which will drive UP construction costs, drive UP inconvenience to I-81 traffic. If you want to raise costs plus extend the time to completion another 7-15 years go right ahead. Reversible lanes may look "modern" but it's yesterday's answer. I've given you a clean, environmental-friendly longterm solution not something that lasts for 20 years then you have to build an upper deck roadway anyway. I have other objections to reversible lanes because we have an aging population on I-81. Alzheimer's is increasing in the elderly and autism is increasing in the younger folks. Reversing lanes would throw some of the elderly drivers into a mind-screaming panic disorientation. Not to mention, that after long hours of driving in a reversible lane environment, when they depart off of I-81 it takes the older brain a substantial amount of time to reorient them that they are no longer on that mixed up road. During that reorientation period they will have a significant number of car accidents with local traffic. Has it been done anywhere else? {HAS SOMEONE ELSE DONE IT??} Texas has been upper decking its interstate system for years:  http://www.lonestarroads.com/i-035a_tx.html (here is a larger picture of just one on that link: http://www.lonestarroads.com/ih035/i-035_nb_exit_154a_02.jpg). The Texas upper roadways are magnificently engineered and quite beautiful to behold if you enlarge many of those pictures. But they also took a long time to build because they are handling all traffic including heavy tractor-trailers and combination rigs. My idea reduces cost to possibly 25% of the Texas highway system by making the upper deck roadway a non-commercial traffic parkway, like the Blue Ridge Parkway or many of New York's 26 parkways - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkways_in_New_York_State. They use color-coded and fluorescent lighting signs to distinguish the upper and lower levels. Moving much of the car traffic off the ground-level I-81 would reduce car-truck accidents 75-90+%, expedite truck deliveries, truckers arrive at their destinations less exhausted from dealing with the oldsters and teens talking on their cellphones, and vice versa. Everyone benefits. Life is not only protected it is enhanced.      Report

07-20-2007, 4:02 PM PrimeMover Joined on 07-13-2007 Posts 11 Re: Alternative transportation solutions.. At the risk of sounding like I am tooting my own horn I personally think this is a stellar opportunity for Virginia Tech. They have wanted this opportunity for AGES. To build a smart road the length of I-81 through Virginia? The possibility of designing and implementing a real feat of engineering found no where else in the World? A chance to do something fantastic to help them heal from the student massacre? callous as that may sound...                 __________________________ N & S may not have come out and said so but I think they want Roanoke because they have always wanted Roanoke since they first opened their doors. They worked their consideration designs first out on the other side of Glenvar somewhere right? Then they hit flak there so they changed it to Salem. All this is to me is representing a step-by-step military precision march toward Roanoke. So I jumped the gun on what you have written in front of you. Let them have Roanoke as its base so long as the pollution equipment is put in place. They should be a responsible enough group to do that. Besides, they'll have to, whether in Salem or any other populated location. A pollution-generating site like that has to observe EPA rules. Building in Salem doesn't change that. They will still have to control what pollution they introduce into the environment, the ground water from the extra runoff. The days are gone where no one notices groundwater contamination. That was the last Century's thinking: new ballgame now, with better rules. If they didn't foot the bill for protecting the local groundwater from their increased pollutant load local governments would have to, which would negate the extra taxes they paid.                 __________________________ I just want to emphasize these are all opportunities not the lash. Like making I-73 a single lane on either side of Roanoke also: Bull-by-the-horns opportunities. Even for Norfolk Southern, an opportunity to raise its image with everybody concerned when they do the right thing and protect the children, protect the old, protect the sick. You can't pay enough for that amount of positive PR. ....    Report

07-23-2007, 6:48 AM Mark RVARC Joined on 02-22-2007 Posts 4 Re: Alternative transportation solutions.. PrimeMover thanks again for your feedback. You certainly have alot of passion. Since you are interested in action and moving forward, please consider registering for RideSolutions, www.ridesolutions.org . Tell your friends about RideSolutions as well. You might as well carpool, even part time, while the grander projects are playing themselves out. Your suggestion of including Tech in an eventual solution is a good one. As you have probably observed over the years Tech is independent and makes many decisions with or without the involvement of surrounding local governments. Have you contacted the VA Tech Transportation Institute http://www.vtti.vt.edu/ about your ideas? You had asked about implementation of reversible lanes. Please keep in mind that reversible lanes could be beneficial for non-interstate primary and collector roads. Your point about increasing throughput, so that car exhaust is moving instead of becoming a point source is all the more valid for regular streets. The closest implementation of this type, that I know of, is in Greensboro NC. They have a reversible lane system along High Point Road, which connects the Greensboro Colesum with Interstate 40/85 near the 4 Seasons Conference/ Shopping Mall complex. In this case the reversible lanes use no additional right-of-way, they reconfigure what is present. And, they are used for getting traffic to and from the Colesum on event days. Thank you for the link to the Texas system. How would you handle interchanges? Presumably, interchanges would have to be bridged/ retrofit to get the cars on and off the double decking. This could introduce more costs than you have mentioned in previous posts. Each exit would have to have a bridge/ viaduct system for access to the upper deck. Also, it is not necessarily true that an upper deck system engineered for cars only would cost a mere fraction of the Texas system. All decking/ bridge systems must be engineered for a variety of loads including wind shear loads, snow loads and static loads resulting from stopped congestion on the upper deck itself. This can be observed first hand when someone builds a pedestrian bridge. Pedestrian bridges still have to be engineered to withstand a variety of loads even though they will carry no motorized vehicles. As such, even a bridge, such as the Martin Luther King Memorial Bridge under reconstruction on First/ Henry street costs much more than one would expect beforehand.    Report

07-23-2007, 1:00 PM PrimeMover Joined on 07-13-2007 Posts 11 Re: Alternative transportation solutions.. I was assuming snow loads wouldn't be a consideration since the upper roadway would be pre-fabricated to include an automatic snow melting system. I was assuming the VT people would at least achieve that level. At any rate, my solution involving Tech is a great deal more than merely "good" seeing as how several of my inventions I presented them with in 2002 eventually found their way into the marketplace via their past alumni needing new ideas... mysteriously lacking any reference to me. And that is -both unfortunately and necessarily- true. So no, I have not contacted them. I may be the last person they want to hear from. Perhaps you can get North Carolina drivers to live here since they are familiar with driving on North Carolina roads you want to build here. Other than that you're pulling an apples and oranges argument. This ain't North Carolina. The drivers here aren't North Carolina drivers. In case you haven't read this area's demographics, this area is FULL OF OLD RETIRED PEOPLE with all that entails from a health standpoint. North Carolina traffic solutions could very well and quite easily result in a lot of dead people in Southwest Virginia-Roanoke. Reversible roads are a patch. They solve one problem but only relocate the bloodletting. Be prepared to spend a lot of money on new DMV education-ads and crematory expenses. I hear the Space Shuttle system is near to being superceded so maybe Virginia could get a bargain on all that discarded metal, so 25% may be possible after all. If you continue to look for a negative reality, you're going to reap a negative reality. In my reality I look for positives even when others do their darnedest to shove me in a ditch and keep me there til I drown in their toilet water. That too is temporary. I'm sorry you miss Carolina so much.    Report

07-24-2007, 10:01 AM PrimeMover Joined on 07-13-2007 Posts 11 Re: Alternative transportation solutions.. I happen to like the North Carolina layout also. I think it has more Rest Areas for truck drivers which is a good thing. Virginia interstates are woefully lacking in rest areas. They would rather roll out Haz-Mat triage units and clean up dead bodies like so much roadkill than do something intelligent.  Now you raised a question about access ramps as if it would be some kind of an Idea Killer. You can pick it apart all you please but in the end my suggestions for the upper deck would separate the trucks from the small cars. That alone is reason enough to pursue it. I've been on disability almost 2 decades for the fallout from several serious accidents I had on the job in the mid-80's, so no, I haven't run all over and contacted all those people as you suggest. The health roller coaster I ride from one day to the next doesn't allow me that luxury. But if I had perfect health I doubt I would jump through those hoops. My Calling is higher than road building. In my lifetime I have run head-on into a discrimination wall you would not believe. I was blacklisted here in Roanoke for not fighting in Vietnam even though I had several valid deferments. I had a broken vertebrae, I was colorblind and I was what was called an "Only Surviving Son of a Veteran". The draft board had a WWII War Hero relative of Dad's on it so he must have issued a lifetime blockade against me. It's been Open Season on my attempts to care financially for my family ever since. So when I place ideas on the table it's not with the idea it will actually get done. It's a test to see if the blacklist is still Active and it is. I've invented many other inventions plus solved several left by Nikolai Tesla at his death. Those I have not released because someone else would get credit for them, just as happened with Virginia Tech. However, I am not recipocating against those who chose to make the blacklist, most of whom are long dead. Today is Today and the students at VT would be blessed to build such a system. Today is their day and they deserve a chance at being blessed irregardless of what the VT people did against me in 2002. I have also been blessed to invent several engines that do not use gasoline nor diesel nor any combusting fuels at all. You're not getting them because of the blacklist I was put on in 1970. There's a great deal of pain being caused but it hasn't issued forth from me. I put the engines online so someone would build them. Several of my other Energy System engines have been built in Australia, again without proper reference being given to me. Which is proving the blacklist is being honored on an international scale. Further discussion of the upper deck is therefor a waste of time. The enmity mentioned in Genesis 3:15 is alive and well: http://bibletools.org//index.cfm/fuseaction/Bible.show/sVerseID/71/eVerseID/71/opt/parallel/version/asv . For the sake of argument though just so you know exactly where our government stands on Energy, I've already released a system that isn't even one of mine, and you aren't getting that one either: a C-190 Isuzu engine that runs on a mix of diesel and methane, gets 80 miles per gallon on the interstate. In addition it would give North Carolina farmers one large sum of cash giving them a new industry for hog manure instead of having to pay through the nose for cleanup and the rest running off into & polluting the oceanlife. The fix is in my friend. All the people out there who know in their heart the answers have been found well, they are right. The Gov already has UFO-type craft and propulsion systems but instead of being honest and telling you they dangle them around to watch us peons jump. They have put all of you on my blacklist. You're all Cindy Sheehans now, eating at the same table from the same Commonist Bowl. And you're all paying $3.xx a gallon for gasoline I showed how we no longer needed in July 2003 and a 2nd time in November 2005. By them withholding the solution to Tesla's "flying machine" the powers that be are jerking everyone by a chain around your neck. I-81 and I-73 are no longer needed once they allow you to have the flying cars they already know how to make. You have no idea just how much trash all of us are being treated like til you read this post, although I expect it to disappear a short while after posting. Few people want to hear their kid died in Iraq fighting over crude oil we haven't needed in 4 years but for a 37 year old blacklist. That's a good indicator of what value they place on your Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness. All they do with my inventions is spend billions to turn them into new weapons of war, nothing towards enhancing your life or anything else. You look long & hard, see for yourself. Why would VT sit on a good idea? Why did Roanoke tear down a good solid concrete structure that could have been the base for an expanded stadium that would have also served as a great concert-class stadium -saying it was needed for the expansion of Roanoke Memorial- only once it was demolished they change to wanting an amphitheatre there??? hahahaha Expand your horizon and see the Red Sea falling on you. The lies being fed you, the lower quality of life being dumped all over you as if you were being anointed with it, is a lot deeper and filthier than all the hog waste in North Carolina. Your future is being held back on purpose. They're addicted to tax money. All my inventions and all of Tesla's and the ones of Tesla I figured out a few months ago (if I was to release them), all sitting on a shelf so they can trickle dole them to you over the next century, maintain their economic wealth. That's your Gov hard at work to keep you in economic limbo, doing its best to make sure I stay down and consequently you stay down. The entire operation is a sham. I told them how to siphon Pacific Ocean water over to a small lake in Death Valley, letting the Sun's intense heat and high evaporation rate there to mine the water out of the Gold, which I gave them in 1989 to restore the Gold Standard. And yet you continue to suffer. I told them how to get a minimum 50% of this Nation's annual electricity from lightning in 1989. And you continue to suffer. I have since found out (figured out) that Mr. Tesla had a better system than mere siphoning, a system that could have drawn the flood waters off the Mississippi and out of the streets of England now underwater. Boy, it's time for you to wake up and smell the coffee... if you can afford it. Your ticket is being punched just as if you had been a conscientious objector in 1970 and no 2008 Election is gonna change that. All those millions of election money dollars are coming off your back and in return you're barely getting flour dust off a Dunkin' Donut table after being scraped off the kitchen floor with a mouthful of crud with it. It's all right there in the Bible since John wrote it 2,000 years ago (almost). Revelation 18:3 => http://bibletools.org//index.cfm/fuseaction/Bible.show/sVerseID/30997/eVerseID/30997/opt/parallel/version/asv where it says the Merchants are in control over all the waters (international). That's why your kids almost got poisoned with Chinese antifreeze and some of your pets were, so they could make their money. Son, the End really is Near. Money (Bible: mammon) is wagging the dog, not the Republicans and not the Democrats. We Roanokers may as well be standing in those reversible lanes getting hit from both sides, and even the 40% illiterate drop-out adults here knows that. They dropped out for a Reason. ....    Report

07-24-2007, 11:40 AM PrimeMover Joined on 07-13-2007 Posts 11 Re: Alternative transportation solutions.. Yes, you're right. I do have a bit of passion. Sometimes, I make mistakes. My health goes up & down. when it goes down I'll make a tactical mistake like calling someone "Son". I meant nothing derogatory toward you or your age or anything. It's just one of those occasional literary mistakes someone does I guess. I've seen a lot of bad things done towards Americans and my free speech for as long as it lasts I will tell others. I get chased off of blogs sometimes for speaking my peace. I find out which ones are owned by the Saudis. Not to long ago I posted an open message to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, that they had better diversify away from oil and start building a great tourist attraction to replace the oil income they're about to lose. About two months ago I heard on the News they have built an indoor winter skiing facility out in their desert. hahahaha A few people listen to me. It's the ones who are putting the 12 o'clock high on you that don't like my posts. All the OPEC countries know about my engines. It's just you guys here who are being shielded and kept ignorant. My disability check doesn't allow me to do a media blitz or pay for higher positioning on the Internet. Everybody else owns the house, and they know it. My vioce isn't the loudness of a gnat.    Report

08-01-2007, 5:37 PM PrimeMover Joined on 07-13-2007 Posts 11 Re: Alternative transportation solutions.. The gnat returns. I wanted to share this new car design in the News today => http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/08/01/100138830/index.htm . It's a very small car that has a battery pack you swap out when it runs down. The battery will be leased. Only the car is sold. Looks like from that article it would be just the right car for a light-duty upper I-81 deck highway. Tractor trailer winds would blow them off the highway. They project to be selling them in the U.S. come 2009. They are purchased straight off the Internet. No middlemen. No automobile dealerships, no Sales staff, so reliable they probably never break down almost. They have also gotten the Segway inventor in on future designs. The internal Segway will be recharging the battery pack as it drives along, extending the range of the car by hundreds of miles between chargings (swapping the battery). Since the batteries are leased it goes bad you get a replacement. Virginia had a chance to be ahead of the 8 ball on this. Procrastination and foot shuffling should be listed as a disease. Oh well. I've made my share of mistakes too.              Report

08-05-2007, 5:10 AM PrimeMover Joined on 07-13-2007 Posts 11 7-Tier Guide and Plan for Making Nation Bridges Safe within 2-3 Year's Time 7-Tier Guide and Plan for Making Nation Bridges Safe within 2-3 Year's Time. Sad about the Minnesota bridge collapse. Here's a few answers: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=260993&cid=20118653 I incuded that link in my recent webpage => http://tinyurl.com/3de6r7 That's a shortcut to it. The real name is lots longer. That webpage has some good information.    Report

08-23-2007, 9:38 AM PrimeMover Joined on 07-13-2007 Posts 11 7-Tier Cluster Bomb Hitting Roanoke Virginia, Perpetuating Riley's Debts, Burning Rome the Right Way Archaeological excavations of ancient cities -or City-States as some were called, sort of like one-city individual kingdoms I suppose- have uncovered a shared common feature. It seems these "ancient people" who couldn't invent a flush toilet would build and rebuild their city as it aged, right on the same site. Building on top like that and building upward has several major advantages. One is that the city would get higher and higher above any enemies who might try to storm their gates. Firing arrows down from a wall carries extra killing speed & momentum from Gravity, like shooting Gravity-aided arrows. Or throwing hot molten lead from a bucket. I understand they would sometimes light fire to a big roll of hay and let Gravity do the work for them. Also, building upward raises the city higher above any floodwaters that would come, giving the city a longevity advantage. When building upward like that you also save the Time & Labor costs by using the old ruins as the foundation. Not having to pour new foundations, you do not need to excavate to lay all your electrical and plumbing pipes. Just lay them out then build your building or city football-amphitheatre complex. That's building up, as in what they should be doing in New Orleans. Examples of how that has any relevance to Roanoke Virginia is that the "old" Victory Stadium could have made a great "new" foundation for a raised stadium. The new stadium would have been expanded across the top of the old walls, walls that I would remind Roanokers were built by the same men using the same incredibly strong concrete they also used to build the Carvins Cove Dam, which to my knowledge has never needed repairing. But if the Carvins Cove Dam was to ever crack and need replacing, acccording to the "Victory Stadium Principle" now set in stone we would destroy the whole dam and then build another "new dam". For some unknown reasons my ideas for building a new bigger stadium atop Victory Stadium's powerful walls didn't go over and I seem to sense a betrayal of Roanokers of someone in Roanoke City or even Virginia who does not want the ideas of Woodrow Riley to ever be listened to. Suit yourself but I thought I would do a little fill-in here today and let you know your assumption is not quite correct. It wasn't my original idea. Building on top of previous foundations has been a long-standing Fortress of an Idea shared by many past civilizations for their economic benefit and survival, and being able to move fast without loss of services. "My" idea had deep roots in the entire History of Mankind, greatly transcending anything Roanoke's business leaders want to do. Had "my" idea been followed we would now have a very large modern stadium, having bypassed the time needed to make an entirely new foundation, a stadium having a concert stage which would rise through the cantilever-powered and -opened section of the football field in a matter of 10-15 minutes after the football game ended if so desired. Using cantilevered weights is also a very ancient idea that predates the very birth of Christ. But thank goodness Roanoke escaped using anything the Ancients used. The $3,000,000.00 or whatever that was Paid Out to destroy Victory Stadium -carting its rubble off in shame and disposing of it- would have instead been used to cover perhaps 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of the new better stadium that had an amphitheatre under its floor ready to spring into use at a moment's notice. Perhaps if one of the Ancient inventors or philosophers had been raised from the dead and walked the idea over to City Hall, bowed on his knees and told you what to do, maybe you would have listened and saved millions of dollars, have a completed stadium by now, had the biggest amphitheatre anyone could ever want... plus pocketed the $3,000,000.00 spent on prepping the Orange Avenue location for a small dinky amphitheatre with cramped parking and local congestion enough to make the area a pollution and traffic congestion nightmare. There were other Ancients you also ignored in your haste to make sure you didn't pay me a Consultant's Fee. They were the ancients who built Victory Stadium where they built it because it was the correct location, a footbal stadium beside a medical facility to treat their injuries quickly, Roanoke Memorial Hospital where God help me I was born in 1951. So here I am on disability, having showed you the way to pocket a minimum of $6,000,000.00 possibly more, which would have paid 75%  toward the completed total monetary outlay of both the improved new stadium and a world class-sized Roanoke VA amphitheatre all in one price that would never have been hissed and booed, nor ever surpassed in our lifetimes. And the monies you saved by not paying me just kept me from paying off a few straggling debts owed to Community Hospital, Lewis-Gale Hospital, and some various doctors who still imagine I owe them money for them not helping me get off disability SINCE 1989 =>>> SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO. There's an old expression for something like this. It's called a cluster xxxx. Personally I thought I was about to exit into the light from this economic tunnel I live in, get some of my inventions finally into design, pay off some debts I owe family members incurred back in 1995 when I was very ill, being brain-poisoned by 1200 mgs. a day of Lithium Carbonate and 1,000 mgs. a day of Clinoril, and misspent the money from my accident settlement with having a lawyer who felt no compulsion at all to realize I was so ill I might need some help to properly manage $36,000.00. So boy, when you guys swallowed the hemlock toilet water you tossed me into the channel also. Thanks a lot. My doctors thank you. Lewis-Gale Hospital Administrators thank you. Community Hospital thanks you. My ex-wife and children thank you. And the whole World thanks you. But this matter about just how much Debt Woodrow Riley owes needs to be addressed publicly once and for all because as long as I fail to pay my debts off, people can use that failure to slander my Christianity beliefs and religious group of Jehovah's Witnesses; and that's a crime against you -not just me you would like it to be- because it shows you what you are. I have been contributing to the welfare and financial advancement of everyone in Roanoke VA, have been concerned with helping this City, have posted web pages showing you how to route I-73 and double decker I-81 to give Virginia Tech a great place to build a pre-fabricated super structure smart road, explained how to make I-73 as a split-leg interstate so neither community to the west or east had to suffer a full-width monstrosity next to their clothes lines, spread out the pollution from the traffic so their babies and children aren't poisoned by J.B. Hunt's 5,000 tractor trailer rigs. And for all that I get a pail of slop handed me. So when you go pointing fingers at JW's and mentioning how Brother Riley never pays his bills you are SERIOUSLY MISTAKEN. The contributions of INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY {IDEAS, CONCEPTS, NEW INVENTIONS} I made were real, whether you fools had the brains to listen to me or not, I did the work. I have paid off my pitifully small amount of owed debts albeit indirectly at a level of $1000:$1 every dollar owed. So when you doctors and hospital billing peoples send me bills thinking I owe you when I have showed how to save this city (lowered tax rates and lowered resulting property tax rates & increases), technically you are correct. The bills do remain stuck on the books like flypaper as unpaid. But you are also terribly wrong. What value do you place on THE RAISED QUALITY OF LIFE I HANDED YOUR FAMILY ON SILVER PLATTERS, NOT TO MENTION A PLACE TO TAKE YOUR LOVED ONES FROM OUT OF TOWN ON THE WEEKEND? I gave you a lot more than just saved monies. I offered a restoring of your self-respect in the eyes of your children for having made a really stupendous and wonderful and decades-long lasting decision. I handed you a game ball that would never need pumping up, Santa helicoptering onto the old Williamson Road Sears Roebuck every day as did happen when I was a child once a year, thinking Roanoke was a fine place to live, Easter eggs dropped in the field next to Breckinridge Junior High, every day. I would have thought you all would have really liked that. So now we stand here in a filthy mud puddle together. Minus respect. Minus a football stadium. Minus a world class amphitheatre that converts like a mighty transformer, before our eyes raising up with bands a-rocking as it rises. Minus City pride too for whatever that's worth, which is apparently ZILCH RALPH NADERINO. Minus an interstate that would expedite all its pollution faster by our children and our oldsters with emphysema and chronic lung diseases, asthma and pollution-caused bronchitis, lung cancers. Surrounded by 50 States laughing at the awesome stupidity you have exibited. I gave Roanoke everything I had without any prior promise of being paid, giving in Faith that once you adopted a few of my ideas you would show your thanks with a check in keeping with all these dang CONSULTANT FEES YOU KEEP FLASHING OUT TO NORTH CAROLINA DEVELOPERS SO THEY THINK YOU ARE BIG WHEELS REINCARNATED. This time I didn't fail alone. I had help. I put you past creditors on notice: Don't hold your breath. And when your children look up to you and ask "Daddy, why haven't "they" ever given us the flying cars?" You can say because they disrespected the Ancients and disrespected one of their greatest students just so they could continue looking down on his religion. What a bunch of knuckle-draggers. Oh, and btw, I sent my links and numerous stadium ideas to Hayes Seay Mattern and Mattern, in to their main office, so you can also thank them for your present lack for stadiums and having to listen to terminally ill ideas & proposals for a Mattel toy stadium, no doubt sent over from our new friends in China, shiny-coated with all the radioactive waste disposal and lead they can mix in with the paint. Everyone thinks they have won against me, but in your winning you have stuck the rapier into your own kid's hearts and hopes for Roanoke. Long ball, your turn "leaders" and "businessmen". The time for honoring yourselves is at an end => 8/23/2007 hahahaha And all so you could continue to trash me, one out of work guy. You have also answered the question why Roanoke students don't try anymore. More good works. Don't anyone mention Crossroads Mall either. I like K-Mart. I have fond memories of shopping with Mom at K-Mart. K-Mart is too close to interstate access ramps. K-Mart is too close to the airport and a fire station. K-Mart isn't on 460. Crossroads Mall is a really bad idea. Any publicly-elected officials that backed the demolition of K-Mart would go down in history book flames. All the many children living across Hershberger Road would curse you for giving them a football stadium & amphitheatre near to their cramped little roach motel where they belong for not going to college so they could "do better", a ball field that opened to the public children when not in use by the bands that now do fly-bys of Roanoke Airport for laughs, reminding them of their roots 25 years ago playing at county fairs and bars. Besides, everyone knows most of the residents around there are just Blacks. And if you want to kill any more of my ideas go find Gentry Locke Rakes and Moore or H.S.M.M., make sure I never get on my feet to pay the hospitals, and our little coffee circle of nofaith, notrust, nobelief & nohope will not be broken for a thousand yarns oops years. hahahaha Silly me. That was Battlestar Galactica.    Report

08-31-2007, 7:57 PM PrimeMover Joined on 07-13-2007 Posts 11 Re: Alternative transportation solutions.. or, The End of Cancer? dcunited, thought I'd come back here for just a short footnote. I made a national News Release today, August 31, 2007 => http://www.prleap.com/pr/91843 titled: End of Cancer announced: survivor Woodrow Riley unveils exact details - Labor Day release for weary Cancer Society troops ROANOKE, VIRGINIA   August 31, 2007   Healthcare & Hospitals News   I was able to tie the Release to Roanoke VA by adding the 24012 Zip Code into the Text Body. It's a new trick Prleap and the wire services started, apparently not that long ago.   Hope the information proves helpful for you & yours. -Woody Riley   ....          Report

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