Interesting New Traffic Maneuver
Jun. 6th, 2005 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperI had already been aware that the requirement to stop before executing a right turn on red had apparently been repealed, at least in the minds of most drivers who turn right on red in front of me. My horn hasn't yet internalized this, nor have I quite gotten used to jamming on my brakes, but I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually.
The woman who executed a U-turn on red directly in front of me today, however, is exploring new realms in the area of individual application of traffic law. And she was driving a VW, demonstrating that you don't have to be driving the usual brands of car that driving-impaired individuals normally use in order to completely disregard the law.
The woman who executed a U-turn on red directly in front of me today, however, is exploring new realms in the area of individual application of traffic law. And she was driving a VW, demonstrating that you don't have to be driving the usual brands of car that driving-impaired individuals normally use in order to completely disregard the law.
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Date: 2005-06-06 10:25 pm (UTC)Them and old folks in Cadillacs and Lincoln Town Cars...
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Date: 2005-06-06 10:56 pm (UTC)"Granola, honey, I think a purple light means stop..."
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Date: 2005-06-07 03:25 pm (UTC)Of course this was based solely on knowing the rules of the road... not actual behind the wheel ability. And knowing the rules does not necessarily make you a good driver, and vice versa.
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Date: 2005-06-07 05:11 pm (UTC)The worst recently had to be the person who decided that the Kindercare parking lot was part of the exit to the White Hen next door. If I'd been about 30 seconds earlier, she might have hit me as I walked around the back of my car on the way in to drop The Kid off -- or worse, she might have hit The Kid. I've also had someone curse at me because I was trying to exit out of the one-way exit at the same Kindercare and she (or maybe he, it's been a while) wanted to drive the wrong way through the Kindercare parking lot to get to the White Hen.
I also get honked at regularly because I won't pull across and block the intersections with the cross roads when stopping for a backed up red light.
Oddly all of these occur along Greenbrook road in northern DuPage county between County Farm and Lake Street.
RonO :-(