St. Rodney the Divine posed this question almost 15 years ago and it’s just as relevant today. Road manners in the United States are atrocious. Obliviousness, incompetence and deliberate passive-aggressiveness make the experience of getting from “a” to “b” unpleasant, stressful and more time-consuming than it ought to be. And more dangerous, too. New...
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Why can’t all states have turnout lanes? Well, they can of course – but most don’t. Somehow, the simple solution of providing extra room on the shoulder of a two-lane road to let faster-moving cars safely and courteously get by slower-moving cars is not high on the To Do list of state highway authorities....
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Here are a few current laws that ought to be on the other end of a piece of payin’ paper for a change: * No right on red - This is a form of idiot-proofing designed to protect over-cautious, under-skilled drivers with poor vision and a weak sense of spatial relationships – the kind...
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I have become a routine law-breaker. Today, for example, I passed three cars – even though it was a “double yellow” zone. I almost always drive 10-20 mph faster than the posted speed limit. There is a red light at an intersection that often only cycles green for a left turn once every other...
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Once population gets to a certain density, it’s game over – for liberty. I mean, for real-deal, live and let live, do-what-you-want (provided you’re not physically harming anyone else) liberty. You know – what most of the founding fathers (Alexander Hamilton and his proto-Reoublicans excepted) had in mind. The best analogy I’ve found is...
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