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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Apr 15 14:48:00 2014, in response to Re: A a Vision Zero Town Hall Meeting, posted by Wakefield-241st Street on Tue Apr 15 13:56:43 2014. Everyone knows that you are supposed to come to a complete stop at a stop sign but hardly anyone does that. This is nothing new. One exercise one of my teachers had us do 45 years ago in sociology class was to go out to an intersection with a stop sign, stand there for five minutes and count the percentage of cars that came to a complete. stop. We were told not to count cars that had to stop because there was a car in front of them. According to my counts only 5% came to a full stop. The lesson was that society does not do everything it is supposed to do.Yes, no one on the video stopped, but all of them slowed down and looked around, so they were not being reckless in my opinion. Ignoring a stop sigh to me is to just blow past it without looking around. That is the dangerous act. I doubt many accidents happen because drivers only slow down to 2 mph. Also, there were no pedestrians around. That is when it is important to come to a full stop. So the NYPD goes out and randomly tickets a few who don't stop at a stop sign. Money comes into the City's treasury but the behavior will not stop because it just can't be enforced all the time. At least most drivers slow down at stop signs. Most bikers just drive straight through. It's wrong, but not always dangerous. It's the dangerous actions we need to stop like speeding at 50 or 60 mph in a 30 mph zone and as you say texting and distracted driving, and not giving the right of way to pedestrians. |
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