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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one stops their cars at stop signs - they use them as suggestions.  I am always throwing my arms up at cars when I am a pedestrian.

They don't stop at the stop sign line, instead they stop over the line in the crosswalk.

Illegal tints.

Illegal cell phone usage.

Lack of turn signals.

Excessive speeding.

Police don't do much to make the road safer.  I rarely even see police cars, and if I do, they are traveling to/from the station and don't enforce the law.  What is the county/state/country doing to make our roads safe?  [/quote]

BEcause people LOSE their minds over it.

I live in an upper NW DC neighborhood where people go to avoid Mass and Wisonsin Avenue traffic—we have tens of thousadns (it's been measured!) of cars coming through everyday at rush hour—they speed and they don't stop at stop signs at crosswalks were 1000+ students are walking. It's insane. DC put out stop light cameras and THE NEIGHBORHOOD lost their shizz over it. It's an insane traffic enforcement issue that has created a massive and incredibly frightening safety issue that people in the neighborhood worry about constantly—but in the same breath they will RAGE against Bowser for her unfair money-grubbing traffic cams.[/quote]

That's because traffic cameras are democratic and what people want is "traffic enforcement for thee but not for me." If someone else does it then it's a dangerous illegality that must be stopped. If I do it it's a minor infraction and it's oppressive to fine me.

Traffic violations are really hard for people to figure out because pretty much everyone violates some traffic law sometimes. I am a careful and law abiding driver who has never been in a collision and makes an effort to drive legally and safely. But I've been pulled over for speeding and making a turn without signalling. And the time I turned without signalling I didn't have my drivers license on me! I can explain the extenuating circumstances in the situations where I was pulled over and they'd probably make you sympathetic to my plight. But it doesn't change the fact that I did in fact violate traffic laws and those laws are not written with exceptions. If you drive for long enough you will eventually make mistakes and incur infractions.

So we struggle because we need traffic enforcement but no one wants to be subject to punishment for violating traffic laws. Add in the race issues and the examples of black people being murdered or assaulted over minor traffic incidents and it makes it even worse. Traffic enforcement is a real quandary for humanity.

Which is why I support doing whatever we can to get people to choose alternatives to driving. [ducks][/quote]

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