Re: Daytime running light popularity

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@gXXmail.com> wrote:

On 11/5/2024 1:36 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 11/4/2024 10:18 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

 
From a uk perspective the idea that bar a few special roads you can’t cross
the road at any point of choosing is frankly ridiculous!

 
In my village, there are signs at the 25 mph street in front of the
library saying "No pedestrian crossing." Those signs and the crossing
are in full view of the police office in village hall. We have always
ignored them.
 

It’s also a 3 lane road, and while very picket fence etc, it’s also very
clearly car centric looking at the parking/drive through restaurants.

 
At the location I described, in front of the library, it's two wide lanes.

As it approaches the bridge yes but doesn’t seem to be any narrower than
when it’s 3 lanes, ie it’s still a wide car centric road.

 

I’d expect a road like that to have much higher speeds than the limits as
people do tend to drive to the road than the limits.

 
Actually, the village has a reputation for being a "speed trap." IOW,
people say the village police actually enforce the speed limits - at
least, reasonably. I've never seen evidence that they will ticket 26
mph; but they will ticket 35 in a 25 zone, which is fine with me. I
think the reputation keeps speeds down.
 

That’s not a good thing to allow folks to speed by 10mph particularly at a
25mph limit it’s woeful and again suggests a car centric approach.

BTW, there's a fine downhill to that bridge in front of the library. For
fun, when bicycling, I make sure to break the speed limit even on a
grocery run.
 
As I've posted before, I knew a guy who commuted by bike early in the
morning through that spot. He said a village cop did stop him one time
and ask "Do you know how fast you were going? You hit 35 mph [IIRC]. I
just thought you'd like to know."

In uk speed limits unless some sort of bylaw don’t apply to bikes, and
clearly the 20mph areas particularly if one has gravity on ones side can
easily be reached by some margin.

Mind you did see a video of locally some car in a “must get past” overtook
a cyclists doing 20mph past a speed camera, which triggered the camera! Car
not bike which would have being doing fair bit more than 20mph to overtake.

Mind you it’s shocking how folks didn’t understand how average speed camera
work when they first started to be rolled out some 10 or so years ago.

One taxi driver we used at work told of his colleagues who where adamant
that you could slow just before the cameras and be fine!

Until a week later and the fines and points on the license started to
arrive!

One reason I like them is it stops aggressive driving for most part, ie
driving well over the limit and then braking hard for the cameras which
made the traffic pulse.

 
Sadly, our former village police chief, a friend of mine, died a few
years ago. I haven't met the new one yet, but I'm friendly with other
village cops. They're generally reasonable people.
 

Roger Merriman