Here in DC you can count one-one thousand, two-one thousand... all the way to five one-thousand during the yellow phase. We don't want to stigmative drivers for running a red light, so we accommodate them by s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g the yellow cycle. As they say in the Guinness commercial, "Brilliant!"
Also, they refuse to put red light cameras on deadly downtown intersections because it would catch too many politically powerful folks who live in the VA or MD suburbs... Instead, the cameras are installed in less "advantaged" parts of town to trap the drivers who are just as potentially deadly, but too politically powerless to raise a ruckus with their congress(wo)man... On 10/2/06, Rich Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Houston just got some red light cams working. The company that installs and runs them gets 60% or 70% of the revenues if I recall right. It is more about revenue generation for the city (with little effort) than law enforcement, though one has to agree that running red lights is a problem that needs to be dealt with. One thing I noticed when I moved here from the Boston area is that yellow lights are shorter (can't say how much, you just know it, maybe a second or two) than they were there, where it was expected that people run the yellows. And the easy solution would be to set the green lights to delay a coupla seconds when the cross light goes red, to provide a bit of buffer. But that is too simple. And the cops here really don't do much about traffic enforcement, and drive about as poorly as a lot of the drivers on the road --speeding, no signals, weaving in/out of traffic. Bad cops! No donuts! --R > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
