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- From: jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Stopping at Signs (was Re: Pushbuttons at crossings...)
- Message-ID: <v795ha8@sgi.sgi.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:27:30 GMT
- References: <1jiv8n$gk6@agate.berkeley.edu> <28514@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <jyc.727721777@Leland>
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- In article <jyc.727721777@Leland>, jyc@leo.Stanford.EDU (Jon Corelis) writes:
- >
- > What astonishes me more than any other traffic phenomenon is how
- > often drivers run red lights. I can say without exaggeration that in
- > most places it is routine for drivers to do this. The notion that the
- > yellow light means you're supposed to slow down and prepare to stop
- > rather than speed up in a (usually futile) effort to beat the red seems
- > never to have occurred to most motorists.
- >
- > Surely this behavior causes many deaths and injuries -- does anyone
- > have any figures? Why on earth don't the police enforce this blatant
- > lawbreaking? I think the fine for running a red light should be raised
- > to several hundred dollars, and then communities should consider the
- > bozos who run lights as a sort of "cash cow" to be milked by stationing
- > policemen to hand out tickets to every one of them. It would be like
- > shooting fish in a barrel.
-
- Careful what you wish for. You might get it, and more. If this happened,
- you'd also have several hundred dollar fines for bicycles running red lights
- or stop signs and for pedestrians jaywalking. In the south bay, there
- aren't too many red lights run, in my opinion. The number is tolerable.
- Remember also that completing a left turn after a light goes red is not
- considered running a red light. And also that you aren't considered to
- be running a red light as long as your car's front bumper is in the
- intersection when the light changes to red.
-
- jeremy
-