Re: alfa-digest V7 #1208

[Pottree@domain.elided]

In a message dated 12/08/1999 7:48:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:

<< Fast and competent drivers should set a good example where it really 
 counts. Don't drive drunk and don't run lights, even if you could "get away 
 with it".
  >>


Here, here!

Alas, sometimes here in Los Angeles, the ONLY way to get through an 
intersection, especially if making a left turn, is to wait for it to clear 
and make your turn before the onslaught from the opposite direction resumes.  
IOW, you come into an intersection on a green and get stuck waiting for 
opposing traffic to clear so you can turn left.  The traffic does NOT clear 
until their light turns red (and often not even then).  If you wait for a 
clear road and a green light, you will die of starvation unless someone  
shoots you first.  The only time you can complete your turn is when the light 
has actually turned red, like it or not.  The solution that works, it seems 
to me, is what they use at some major intersections, which is turn lights.

Charlie
busy, bustling LA, CA, USA

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