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To Improve Street Safety, San Francisco Bans Cars From Turning
The Atlantic Citylab ^ | June 22 2015 | Eric Jaffe

Posted on 06/23/2015 8:38:39 AM PDT by BlopAndStop

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This might actually be a ploy to stop Uber, mentioned at the bottom.
1 posted on 06/23/2015 8:38:39 AM PDT by BlopAndStop
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To: BlopAndStop

UPS only makes right turns.


2 posted on 06/23/2015 8:41:35 AM PDT by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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To: BlopAndStop

Wait, what of the damage to Mother Gaia?
This means those evil carbon spewing death machines will have to travel longer distances....


3 posted on 06/23/2015 8:44:39 AM PDT by Kozak (Walker / Cruz 2016 or Cruz/ Walker 2016 Either one is good...)
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To: BlopAndStop

And if we all stayed home, there would be fewer traffic accidents. Then, the SF City Council would decry the increase in home accidents, and probably ban getting out of bed. I think what they really did was to unanimously decree that San Franciscans are seriously stupid and a danger to everyone around them.


4 posted on 06/23/2015 8:46:24 AM PDT by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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...UPS only makes right turns...

And, J. Edgar Hoover insisted that his personal driver make no left turns.


5 posted on 06/23/2015 8:46:48 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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Allow NO turns at all. Pretty soon all cars will have left town. Problem solved. SFO is back to the stone age where it seems to want to be.


6 posted on 06/23/2015 8:49:33 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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Knowing SF, this sounds like a way to let the cyclists run free.


7 posted on 06/23/2015 8:50:01 AM PDT by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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I’ve noticed a push over the last year or two to discourage people from making left hand turns.

It’s rather comical. My father taught me, when I turned 16 in 1970, to time my left turns to match oncoming traffic so I don’t have to come to a complete stop, risking being rear ended. Fact is, there are so many unskilled drivers on the road that a lot of them should not, in fact, be making left hand turns. Whenever I’m on my motorcycle, I cringe at an oncoming car either slowing with no turn signal or with their left signal on.


8 posted on 06/23/2015 8:51:02 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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UPS only makes right turns.

If it's San Francisco they'll be forced to make only left turns.


9 posted on 06/23/2015 8:51:04 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Totally forgot about that site.

A bunch of us were banned by some fat lesbo femiNazi mod for having the nerve to disagree with the idea of letting boys that think they are girls use the female restrooms in schools.


10 posted on 06/23/2015 8:51:47 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Kozak
This means those evil carbon spewing death machines will have to travel longer distances....

No problem. SF is the Prius capital of the world.

11 posted on 06/23/2015 8:53:58 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh (room would)
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To: BlopAndStop

No more Left Turns....


12 posted on 06/23/2015 8:57:00 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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Vision Zero initiative. Appropriate name.
This should be good for those businesses in that area.
With no customers the owners can relax and not worry about shoplifters......

“The idea is to reduce the number of conflict points between drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists on the busy corridor”

I bet this was done because of bike riders!
They could just adjust the lights.
A intersection where I lived had many traffic accidents until the city adjusted the timing of the lights.


13 posted on 06/23/2015 8:58:28 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Don Corleone

You’re not far off. There’s an active movement in NorCal to ban pavement repairs, the theory being that the roads will eventually become undriveable and vehicle owners will then self-ban.


14 posted on 06/23/2015 8:58:49 AM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: cuban leaf

So many idiots on the road. I like the people who are making a left turn while drifting right into the next lane.


15 posted on 06/23/2015 8:59:57 AM PDT by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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“..risking being rear ended”

Stay out of the Castro district. ;0)


16 posted on 06/23/2015 9:01:37 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: cuban leaf; Buckeye McFrog

17 posted on 06/23/2015 9:03:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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18 posted on 06/23/2015 9:04:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: VanDeKoik

Congrats! I got banned for posting a link to a YouTube video of Obama saying something the other Lib posters were all denying he said.


19 posted on 06/23/2015 9:04:53 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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20 posted on 06/23/2015 9:05:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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