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| Re: Pols protest S79 SBS bus lane camera 'entrapment' on Hylan Blvd in Dongan Hills (296292) | |||
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Re: Pols protest S79 SBS bus lane camera 'entrapment' on Hylan Blvd in Dongan Hills |
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Mon Aug 4 00:04:51 2014, in response to Re: Pols protest S79 SBS bus lane camera 'entrapment' on Hylan Blvd in Dongan Hills, posted by displaced angeleno on Fri Aug 1 20:39:30 2014. Sarcasm isn't your strong suit isn't it...I'm saying, the turn lane fine is disproportionately high for how easily it is enforced. Simple economics, there is a slightly more dangerous but significantly harder to enforce way of accomplishing the same goal. Let's say you don't know exactly where your turn is. On normal roads, you can "prepare" by getting into whatever lane corresponds to your turn when you think you are close. However with these stupid bus lanes, by the time you see the road name it's too late to get into the correct lane. Here you cannot do that, so turning from the travel lane is the only way to accomplish this without a lot of doubling back. As for your pedestrian comment, the driver has this thing called a brake, it allows him to slow down the car when a pedestrian (or anything else) is in his path. And, by being one lane over, he has about 10 extra feet to do it! Pedestrians who are aware of their surroundings will be looking that direction for left turners anyway... |
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