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- From: "Michael Smith" <p00004@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: Pushbuttons at crossings (was Signal Synchronization)
- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan21.180727.24379@ntmtv>
- Message-ID: <2936799531.0.p00004@psilink.com>
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- Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:46:20 GMT
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- As a hardened and inveterate defier of stop lights (when cycle-borne,
- that is), perhaps I can at least explain one reason why some of us do
- this dreadful thing. The fact is that if a cyclist stops for a light,
- and a line of cars builds up behind him, when the light changes *every
- one* of those motorists will go stark, staring crazy, and do all kinds
- of mad things trying to get around the two-wheeler, or, better yet,
- force him off the road. I speak from experience; don't anybody try to
- tell me this doesn't happen.
-
- If, however, you can get carefully through the light and twenty or
- thirty meters down the road before it changes, the poor caged lunatics
- in their gleaming metal coffins seem to be able to sort themselves out
- with a little less agita.
-
- I know that facts generally have very little impact on moral
- indignation, but what the hell -- thought you might like to know.
-
- --Michael Smith
-
-