Posted on 05/13/2019 6:15:07 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Legislation introduced in Washington, D.C., would allow certain residents to write out parking tickets to their neighbors.
The goal of the omnibus Vision Zero bill, from council member Charles Allen of Ward 6, is to decrease the number of traffic accidents with pedestrians and cyclists.
Charles Allen ✔
@charlesallen
A few highlights: - Makes some smart changes to our laws, like ending “right on red” and lowering speeds on residential streets to 20 MPH. - Changes the presumption at residential intersections to make them all-way stops.
Charles Allen ✔
@charlesallen
- Adds substantial fines when contractors & utilities don’t replace crosswalks & bike lanes immediately after road work. - Requires developers to include new sidewalks, crosswalks & markings, protected bike lanes, & plans for legal curbside drop off of rideshare or deliveries.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
This will produce chaos.
Because bicyclists want to cruise through intersections without stopping.
Dismissed with prejudice...
Any time a voter contemplates going right, they must be stopped!
Where we live we are starting to see a lot more roundabouts.
BOSTON, Dec. 29 1979— Driving in Boston, a legendary madcap free‐for‐all affair known nationwide for its resemblance to a drunken go‐cart race, will take on new dimensions Tuesday when Massachusetts bows to Federal pressure and becomes the last of the 50 states to allow motorists to make right turns on a red light.
...Governor King's predecessor, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, had refused to make the change, calling the rightturn‐on‐red rule dangerous to pedestrians in such an urbanized state as Massachusetts. Connecticut complied earlier this year, and the change here will leave only New York City still protesting the Federal policy, which was oesigneci as a conservation measure in the 1973‐1974 Arab oil embargo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Turn_on_red
That Bay State gubernatorial throwback to the motorist-hating state-level American legislators at the dawn of the 20th century, one Michael Dukakis, was infamous in Bay State history for stiffly resisting calls from the United States Congress in the late 1970s to allow right turns on red lights. When the Bay State finally allowed "RTOR", Dukakis promptly put up "No Turn On Red" signs at SO many Massachusetts road intersections that the United States Senate did a review of Dukakis' behavior in regards to that action, and found that roughly half of those signs simply had no justification for being posted at so MANY intersections.
Finding newspaper proof of how all this happened COULD be a challenge...!
The PIPE (talk) 17:57, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
Hmm, you may be right. This Harvard Crimson article indicates Massachusetts pased the law on August 8, 1979, to go into effect on January 1, 1980. The Crimson also states Massachusetts was the last state to change, and also notes that signs prohibiting the behavior were at least planned for 90% of intersections. I will change the article. MarginalCost (talk) 05:43, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
And there will be more shootings on the nightly news.
Communist regimes would always try to get neighbors to turn in neighbors for violating the Commie rules.
"...they are not so bad..."
Maybe they prefer "left on red"....
Did you ever sit on a bench and watch a 4 way stop? I have a place in my walk where I stop and watch for a while. If no other cars are present only 5% of “stoppers” actually stop...they slide through, some at barely reduced speed. They don’t know the difference between STOP and SLOW. If they would pay me for violations, I could buy a new GoPro every day. I’ve even got our community vehicles “sliding through” on tape.
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