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- From: jyc@leo.Stanford.EDU (Jon Corelis)
- Subject: Re: Stopping at Signs (was Re: Pushbuttons at crossings...)
- Message-ID: <jyc.727721777@Leland>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 16:56:17 GMT
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- 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.
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- 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.
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