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  • #16
    In New Jersey it's a statewide-thing that you can (usually) turn on red. This seems to confuse our brethren from across the river in Philly, leading to some honking and assorted insults about one's mother, her pasta, who has the best cheesesteak, and who knows who in the mob.


    Anyway, we do have a few odd T-intersections where most of the time you can turn right on red except when the oncoming left turn lane is turning. For those odd intersections there's an actual light that comes on for a few seconds and says "No turn on red". After the left hand turn light goes off, the "no turn" light goes off and you can go your merry way.

    More than a few times I've seen people stopped in the right turn lane, either too dumb or too afraid to turn. Then the No Turn on Red sign actually comes on and you can see people in cars behind them pointing and essentially saying "LOOK! It's okay to turn on red when the sign's off, dick!"

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    • #17
      There was a lady on our community "Rant and Rave" Facebook page complaining the other day because she got held up in traffic due of a car accident on a two lane road. She was stuck behind the accident, so traffic was only moving in the opposite direction. A police car, ambulance and fire truck were called to the scene, so you know it was bad. Her beef? That the police on the scene weren't directing traffic, meaning her lane wasn't moving. She even said she complained to a police officer on the scene, and was told they would begin directing traffic once another police car arrived, because they simply didn't have the manpower to deal with the accident and traffic at the same time. Needless to say, her rant was shot down pretty quickly by people replying along the lines of, "Poor you, inconvenienced for a few minutes while someone up ahead might be dead or dying." Seriously, how entitled are people these days?
      Last edited by BigBird; 06-24-2015, 12:02 AM.

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      • #18
        Quoth An Haddock View Post
        In New Jersey it's a statewide-thing that you can (usually) turn on red. This seems to confuse our brethren from across the river in Philly, leading to some honking and assorted insults about one's mother, her pasta, who has the best cheesesteak, and who knows who in the mob.
        I was laughing so hard at this that I couldn't read the rest of your post.

        Anyway, I drive a car nearly everyone on the road can see around, and yet fairly often I have some schmuck behind me at a green light who doesn't understand that I am not turning left so as not to ram into the oncoming cars. I will not commit suicide or bodily harm for the sake of your convenience. Maybe you should leave the house earlier.
        "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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        • #19
          Quoth BigBird View Post
          Seriously, how entitled are people these days?
          I stopped asking that question. It only makes me more depressed.
          I might be crazy, but I'm not Insane.

          What? You don't play with flamethrowers on the weekends? You are strange.

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          • #20
            The first portion of my drive home is a 3 lane freeway. I got on the road the other night, and almost immediately had to slow way down. It only got worse, and as I crawled up the road, we started compressing the 3, then 4 lanes down into 1 lane on the far right. So, I knew something ugly had happened, just not what. Eventually, I came up with an SUV that had to have been rolled. It was banged up to hell and gone, it was sitting at a slightly more than 90 degree angle to traffic with the bright yellow drape out the ruined back end of the car, there were kibble bits of car sprinkled around the lanes, multiple CHP (California Highway Patrol) vehicles and officers, a flat bed, dozens and dozens of flares, and yeah - my guess is somebody died or nearly died.

            So, my 20+ minute crawl up a section of road that usually takes me 3 minutes doesn't matter a hill of beans. I'm alive! I think there may have been some horn taps when people merged poorly, but that was it, nobody was demanding that we all move faster.

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