General Road and Highway Discussion

[panamaniac]

The habit is engrained and sometimes it's hard to do the logic when we've been taught that flashing lights = stop. I'd rather someone stop unnecessarily than fly through when kids are coming off a bus.

The problem is that consistency is more important than conservativeness.  If you stop, you might cause a rear-end collision, or worse, you might make a child think that all the cars will stop on both sides....

This is why our current crossing situation is so terrible, drivers stop incorrectly for me, but I cannot cross, because I cannot tell if they are stopping or just distracted, and someone coming from behind might go around....I've nearly been hit multiple times because of this.

Follow the rules.

Indeed, as I passed the woman the other day, trying to understand why she had stopped then seeing the stopped oncoming bus at the far curb across the median, my first thought was that she was at serious risk of being rear-ended on that 60kph stretch of city street.  There was also an instant's feeling of dread at the thought that a child might be crossing in front of her car (and there was no way for me to stop in time).  I could have done without that!