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02-28-2010, 05:34 AM | #1 | |
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Cities Shortening Yellow Traffic Lights for Deadly Profit
Look out yellow light runners!
Maybe I should have put this under the thread about strange new taxes. From G. Edward Griffin's site: http://www.realityzone.com/currentperiod.html Quote:
Cities Shortening Yellow Traffic Lights for Deadly Profit AlterNet / By Scott Thill February 23, 2010 Some cities have been shortening yellow lights to nab drivers with a ticket. But studies show that they're raking in the bucks at the expense of public safety. Reeling through a 21st century addicted to technology and surveillance, citizens may be too overwhelmed to complain of increasing cameras popping up atop red lights at intersections across the nation, most of which are designed to catch them breaking traffic laws. That is, until they're caught in those intersections as the yellow lights unexpectedly change, and cars in front and back of them hit the brakes or punch the gas to avoid tickets. And when they find out those cameras and lights are being gamed, sometimes lethally, in the pursuit of quick profit? Then they get mad, and maybe even, for being used as motorized money pits. Continues: http://www.alternet.org/rights/14575...deadly_profit/ Last edited by peaceandlove; 02-28-2010 at 05:39 AM. |
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02-28-2010, 05:43 AM | #2 |
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Re: Cities Shortening Yellow Traffic Lights for Deadly Profit
Thank you for the info.....
If any of us have this issue, I am sure we can record by video how long the light is and then get the reccomended length......And get class acts going..... Are we surprised what they want to do in the name of profit??? This is an old game and it really is going to change....none of us want to play them anymore!!! : ) |
02-28-2010, 06:28 AM | #3 |
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Re: Cities Shortening Yellow Traffic Lights for Deadly Profit
It should teach people not to run yellow lights.
I don't understand what the problem is. If they were shortening green times AND yellow times, I'd be suspicious. Yellow means WAIT, not SPEED UP, I GOTTA GET NOWHERE AND FAST! |
02-28-2010, 08:07 AM | #4 |
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Re: Cities Shortening Yellow Traffic Lights for Deadly Profit
Who loves money??
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02-28-2010, 08:14 AM | #5 |
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Re: Cities Shortening Yellow Traffic Lights for Deadly Profit
yes, but speaking from experience... it is really hard to stop a school bus full of kids when you are caught at the "point of no return" and end up at a full stop in the middle of the intersection...
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02-28-2010, 08:42 AM | #6 |
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Re: Cities Shortening Yellow Traffic Lights for Deadly Profit
That's a rare case.
The majority of people who run yellow lights are douchebags that can't see the person in the crosswalk right in front of them. |
02-28-2010, 10:16 AM | #7 | |
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Re: Cities Shortening Yellow Traffic Lights for Deadly Profit
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There is the expectation everyone has. There is the safety of all. |
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02-28-2010, 10:31 AM | #8 |
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Re: Cities Shortening Yellow Traffic Lights for Deadly Profit
PaL,
Thanks for posting this. |
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Your government is the criminal not the yellow light driver. |
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02-28-2010, 11:42 AM | #10 |
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Re: Cities Shortening Yellow Traffic Lights for Deadly Profit
Don't know what a douchebag is but if the light is yellow the light won't have changed to let the person in the crosswalk (light controlled crossing?? ) cross the road so what's the problem?
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02-28-2010, 05:08 PM | #12 | |
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you don't see what the problem is here????? OMG |
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thanks for the post... its great to be informed and aware of ALL areas of their schemes |
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02-28-2010, 06:22 PM | #14 |
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02-28-2010, 06:33 PM | #15 |
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Re: Cities Shortening Yellow Traffic Lights for Deadly Profit
Heh, where I live the people step on it when its red, and move ever so slowly like turtles when its green. Incredibly frustrating.
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