I’m a UK native but as a partial resident to the US I am familiar with the option to turn right (I know, not always the case) at a highway intersection even if the light is red.
Here in the UK however- No such option exists. And to be honest, it is a real Pain in the ***. The time I waste every day, just sitting at the lights waiting to turn (Left here) - when any idiot can see it’s clear to go!!>:(
There. Got it off my chest.
> There. Got it off my chest.
i’m a US citizen living in denmark: same here, hate waiting for green
to turn right!!
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Andy Sipowicz
i wish all drivers in my country were so civilized. lol
people here keep honking when u (pedestrian) cross the road in front of them even when the light is still red
Someone has just built the first prototype of a revolutionary new device for finding things in the dark: the plastic, battery powered torch.
“What colour shall we make them?”
“Black! Let’s make them all black.”
Boundless human stupidity. 
Typical!!
I’m glad I started this thread now. I’m hoping for some more classic stuff.rotfl!
I detest sequential remote controls.
Why do I have to step through every device to get to the one
I need. Why in blazes if they have labels for each device I
can’t hit that device and have it change to that device as
well as set the keys on the remote? Why do I have to hit
the device to change the keys then hit Input Select 8 times with
a 5 second pause between each keypress??? That’s 40 seconds to get to
device #8! Arrrrghhh!
I hate the way every guitar or bass guitar I get the opportunity to play has a string missing. Every time…
Two things here:
Traffic calming devices, including three speed bumps on one block of a street, one that is like 3 feet in front of a stop sign!
Red light traffic cameras that make cabbies afraid to turn right on red when it IS legal, and make people screech to a stop on yellow and almost get rear-ended. The city makes no bones about it being a REVENUE measure, not a safety measure.
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:16:01 +0000, heinrich773 wrote:
> Traffic calming devices, including three speed bumps on one block of a
> street, one that is like 3 feet in front of a stop sign!
Common when people tend to blow through the stop sign.
Speaking of things that annoy us, people who drive too fast and ignore
stop signs/lower speed limits/people in orange vests, especially in
construction zones (the street in front of our house happens to be under
construction).
> Red light traffic cameras that make cabbies afraid to turn right on red
> when it IS legal, and make people screech to a stop on yellow and almost
> get rear-ended. The city makes no bones about it being a REVENUE
> measure, not a safety measure.
True, very true. There’s oen state here in the US that recently outlawed
the red light cameras.
Jim
Our local Town, Kendal is employing more traffic calming and management ideas. ‘Town Planners - Think - Umm… How can we make driving more difficult, let’s slow the traffic down, make the roads narrower, stop people making short cuts, remove half the parking and make the remaining parking bays smaller to fit more in, start digging up the main roads during the Summer when it’s really busy’.
I could go on…
So you’ve never been to a music store and played one ???
Geoff
Which state? I’m moving there!
Nope!
I’ve only recently picked on up, which is why it is so annoying. All the chords I can play will have to be relearned…
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:56:01 +0000, heinrich773 wrote:
> Which state? I’m moving there!
I want to say Nevada is what I remember hearing, but it might’ve been
someplace in the southeast. Have to see if I can find the article again
now.
Jim
Distrowars.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry A. Kissinger
People who have no consideration for the elderly generation.
The wife walking past the TV right at the crucial moment of an F1 overtaking manouver.
My wife ignoring me when the soaps are on which is typically Mon - Fri, 5.30pm - 10.00pm.
My wife moaning i’m always on the computer (see above).
People that complain when you complain (go figure).
Going out for the evening and find out you have 2 slightly different (but still different), black shoes on :\
Being the only one in the cinema with a cough.
Ahhh i feel better now
Cops on bikes in disguise, taking videos of me on my bike.
Uwe
Here in beautiful Los Angeles, it is rare to encounter a left turn arrow. Most of the time you wait at a light without an arrow until the light turns yellow, and the last overly-zealous, marauding driver flies through the intersection as the light turns red…at which point one lucky, now endangered driver turns left as quickly as possible, leaving the line of other turning cars to await their game of Russian-roulette.
What is absolutely unbelievable, though, is the driver who isn’t poised and ready to take advantage of the glimmering green left turn arrow when it is encountered…instead, they sit there as the precious seconds tick by and other drivers honk hysterically to wake them from their stupor. By that time, it often happens that they are the only ones to make it through.
This I say is the most credible argument for a gridded map of one-way streets.
That’s why smart people in the UK invented roundabouts. UK has had them for years (I lived in Bucks for 3 years) and they are just starting to catch on here in the US. It’s a better option to your prolbem than the law you point out. I wish most intersections that had stoplights/stopsigns would be changed to roundabouts. Saves the frustration you point out, and is friendly on the environment by not making cars stop.
Interesting POV Kim. And what you say is true. Though I do recall roundabouts in Massachusetts when I was there some time ago. Maybe New England has inherited some British traditions in that respect. Certainly though where I live in Fl. they are pretty much non-existent - just one or two I have seen. In fact there is one in Gulf Harbors (where our place is) but it doesn’t really count being more or less a community road.
But I am fairly confident that roundabouts on the likes of Hwy 19 & SR 54, would be a recipe for mayhem.