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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All day long I see people commit flagrant traffic violations right in front of MPD. The police do not care. The other day I ran a red light with a cop parked right there, just to see what would happen. Spoiler: nothing. No reaction.

The police in this city are a joke. [/quote]

Your personal responsibility isn't all that much either, it seems.[/quote]

This is why you see men in fancy business suits jumping the metro fare gates. When something isn’t against the law (or you don’t enforce the law) society falls apart. [/quote]

I took the metro for the first time in a long time today, and wondered why I should pay the fare.  [/quote]

Yes, as we all know, if everyone else is doing something that's wrong, it's no longer wrong and you should do it, too.[/quote]

I think that's how we legalized marijuana and that turned out fine.[/quote]

No, that's not how we legalized marijuana. We legalized it by legalizing it. With laws.[/quote]

Laws that were changed because everyone was already ignoring the existing ones. So there was really no alternative but to legalize weed. [/quote]
Traffic laws are effectively nonexistent (definitely not enforced) in DC.  Do what you do![/quote]

This.  My kid is in one of the schools discussed above and I turn left on Bank Street which is no left turn in the morning.  But the police don’t enforce so staying on M until 33rd street has become dangerous.  Until they start enforcing it I’ll keep turning on Bank so I don’t get into an accident.[/quote]

Are you blocking people behind you when you make the illegal turn?[/quote]

Of course they are. The left on Bank Street necessitates blocking one east-bound lane of traffic on M Street, thereby contributing to the bridge congestion in the morning. That said, the same lane is used to turn left on 33rd Street just a bit further up the block.

I have no idea what the PP meant when they said "But the police don’t enforce so staying on M until 33rd street has become dangerous." That doesn't make any sense. The left on Bank Street is definitely more dangerous since it's a mid-block turn with no signal. Cars coming down west-bound M Street might not see you turning until the last moment. [/quote]

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