Re: More cities banning RIGHT TURN ON RED. This is long overdue.

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HangTextDrivers <hangtex...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:49f935fb-6b3d-47df...@googlegroups.com:

> Yes - ban right on red and suspend the license of violators. And lets
> lower speed limits and crack down on text-drivers. 110 americans are
> killed on our roads EVERY DAY but the media has brainwashed the public
> into accepting that.
>
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/no-more-right-turn-on-red-as-pedestri
> an-deaths-rise-us-cities-consider-bans/ar-AA1jq99v?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCT
> S&cvid=daec248b82614564adb6e27317dd4bc1&ei=14
>
> nov 5 2023 A dramatic rise in accidents killing or injuring
> pedestrians and bicyclists has led to a myriad of policy and
> infrastructure changes, but moves to ban right on red have drawn some
> of the most intense sentiments on both sides.
>
> Washington, D.C.’s City Council last year approved a right-on-red
> ban that takes effect in 2025. New Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s
> transition plan called for “restricting right turns on red,” but
> his administration hasn’t provided specifics. The college town of
> Ann Arbor, Michigan, now prohibits right turns at red lights in the
> downtown area.
>
> San Francisco leaders recently voted to urge their transportation
> agency to ban right on red across the city, and other major cities
> such as Los Angeles, Seattle and Denver have looked into bans as well.
>
> The United States is one of few major countries that generally allow
> right turns on red. Concerned that cars idling at stop lights could
> compound an energy crisis, the U.S. government warned states in the
> 1970s that they could risk some federal funding should cities prohibit
> right on red, except in specific, clearly marked areas. Although
> another energy-conscious provision capping speed limits at 55 mph has
> long been abandoned, right on red has endured.

Disagree.

Individuals must assume some degree of personal responsibility for their
own safety.

If they are too stupid to understand that they will never win an argument
with a motor vehicle, then they are a waste of oxygen and should be
prevented from further contaminating the gene pool.