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- From: meyer@dbsun.uucp (Don Meyer)
- Subject: Re: Traffic Lights, was Radio Checks, Coast Guard Boating
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.161937.13597@dbsun.uucp>
- Organization: BioMerieux-Vitek, St. Louis Mo.
- References: <1992Dec21.150504.1403@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <1h511mINN7ht@male.EBay.Sun.COM> <moseley.139.725047045@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:19:37 GMT
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- In article <moseley.139.725047045@u.washington.edu> moseley@u.washington.edu (Steve L. Moseley) writes:
- >Well, I hope I,m not the pedestrian you didn't see crossing in front of your
- >car when you decide to blow the next red light.
-
- I was assuming that the original poster (who said he doesn't see any
- point in sitting at a red light late at night with no traffic) meant
- that he treated it as a "stop sign". I.E., come to a complete halt,
- look both (all) ways, and then proceed through the red.
- This would encompass pedestrian traffic.
-
- This doesn't seem too unreasonable to me. As a matter of fact, I've
- probably done it -- some light are purely timed, and quite long.
-
- Now, folks who treat a red light as a green or even yellow deserve the
- flames!
-
- BTW, if you do see me sitting at a deserted red light at 2:00 AM, it's
- not due to a "sheep mindset" as much as to a "I'm the one that the
- police officer always sees violate a traffic law" mindset! ;-)
-
- Don
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