03-10-2015, 09:47 AM
There is something of a new normal in the area. If you are at a busier intersection, say King and Columbia, drivers who have arrived to turn left believe that they are always entitled to the last movement before right of way shifts to the other street. If the first car has pulled over the crosswalk, and the traffic going straight subsides as the light goes yellow, to me that's one thing. But I am used to seeing the light turn green for me, and still seeing two to three cars pull through from the left and the right to make no-right-of-way left turns.
I accept that sometimes, traffic will run reds, and it doesn't give me the right to do so. I also accept that pedestrians can be slow, or crossing illegally, but I do not get to punish them with 2500lbs of steel.
I accept that sometimes, traffic will run reds, and it doesn't give me the right to do so. I also accept that pedestrians can be slow, or crossing illegally, but I do not get to punish them with 2500lbs of steel.