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Posted by checkmatechamp13 on Thu Apr 17 15:49:22 2014, in response to Re: A a Vision Zero Town Hall Meeting, posted by Wakefield-241st Street on Thu Apr 17 13:18:53 2014. It's a matter of the letter of the law vs. the spirit of the law.If you want to enforce the law like that, then everybody jaywalking (in any capacity) should be ticketed as well. That includes people who enter the intersection once the red hand has started blinking, or those crossing a quiet, narrow street midblock instead of going to the nearest intersection. (And as a matter of fact, plenty of pedestrians do far more than that across the city every day). The amount of risk posed by those people is essentially the same. Rolling through a stop sign at 2 mph means that you could easily stop if needed. Now personally, I would always stop (I was taking driving lessons in my home country, and the instructor actually told me specifically to roll through. I continued stopping though, since I don't want to get into the habit) But realistically, the danger posed is essentially nothing. If you hit a pedestrian or another car because you were rolling through at 2 mph, chances are you weren't paying attention. |
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