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Anyway here’s a post of his about how pedophilia should be celebrated https://nitter.x86-64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip/RichardHanania/status/1728482721998258283#m
Turns on reds fucking suck as a pedestrian. Makes it feel so dangerous sometimes.
Wait, yanks turn when the light is red?!? What kind of backwards shit is that?!
I am a fan of Americans turning right on red on Australian (and UK) roads. Preferably when there’s an oncoming roadtrain.
I once saw an American turn right on a red light into a one way lane going the opposite direction
iirc most states(?) allow a right turn on a red light as it doesn’t involve disturbing the flow of traffic too much
i still think it’s bad to be clear, but i think that’s the reasoning
The original reasoning was that letting people turn right on red saved the gas they would have burned sitting idle at the red light, it was legalized in the US during the 70s oil crisis. That reasoning is obviously nonsense.
Badly designed roads, badly designed traffic systems, badly designed everything means it’s pretty much the only reason anything can move here. Idk how the traffic system would even function without right on red. Or, rather, it would fail to function even more than it already does. Fuck this country.
inconsistent traffic laws make you safer by keeping you on your toes
in practice we just have “no right on red” signs or specific right turn signals at intersections where it would be problematic. out where everything is so spread out there isn’t any pedestrian traffic and bikes act like vehicles (and so are not alllowed to cut past cars on their right where they are liable to get hit).
as typical, american imagination about change is based on the assumption there will be no infrastructure to support it. no turn on red wouldn’t make sense as a blanket rule given current infrastructure due to a lack of bike or pedestrian infrastructure to take advantage of it and the obvious congestion problems that come from cars idling at a traffic light. actually create that infrastructure and the time lost to needing to sit at a red light so non car traffic can cross safely will be less than the time saved due to there being fewer cars on the road to begin with. imagine if the light wasn’t red to begin with because there weren’t other cars. imagine not having to drive at all.
“Big Bicycle”
