Red Light (LONG)

[Bluenomi]

You can't turn right on a red in Australia but since we drive on the left, you wouldn't want to anyway! It would end in tears!

But when it comes to turning left, you can do it on a red if there is a sign saying so. No sign, you wait for the green. So she could have been right over here! Even so, she was a rude bugger.

[Cia]

I guess it could have been worse...you could have been sitting in the left turn lane behind her and watched as she turned left through the red light. I swear I saw two people do that in one day but unfortunately no cops were around when they did so.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

<begin civics lesson>
Actually, in the USA, there is no such thing as federal traffic law outside of places like national parks. The way the US gov't gets around this is by using money. Collect lots of taxes, and then hand it back to the states as long as the states do certain things.

This is why the speed limit on highways was 55 for so long. The federal gov't stated that they would only give out highway funding to states that enacted laws which stated the maximum highway speed was 55. Since the states wanted that money, they complied.

That's also how a great many other programs work, BTW.

</end civics lesson>

That's also how the drinking age came to be 21.

[mattm04]

As someone who used to drive in Quebec regularly, I feel that I should add:
It seems the Quebecois have discovered that they in fact can turn right pretty much whenever, and indeed, do so.

Traffic laws are nifty suggestions in that province, and nothing more.

The same Applies to Boston. In HS our adviser "accidentally" forgot to sign the contract for going to some Amusement park type place that everyone had been to at least twice, just on school trips. Instead we discovered that for only a few bucks more we could go to Fenway Park. Hmmmmm, Red Sox or Amusement Park that everyone goes to at least once a Summer. We also got to roam the City of Boston for 5 hours, no chaperons!!!

Our Bus driver never once stopped at a red, just slowed down and rolled it. He also barreled down narrow one-way streets, the wrong way at like 30 mph. He later told us he lived in Boston his whole life until a year or so before the trip.

[retaildrone]

not many people HAVE heard of sister sizes. Its simply if you go up a cup size from what you normally wear, go down a band size...or the other way...go up a band size, go down a cup size.

That makes sense.

[wolfie]

wait... i thought federal law said right on red was ok????/

Sliceanddice, the person who said federal law gave the OK said "All 50 states and the District of Columbia", meaning it's a U.S. federal law. Quebec is part of Canada, so U.S. law doesn't apply.