Hey. I'm from speedersfundus. We have crosswalks. So not only do tourists ignore us they blast right through crosswalks with pedestrians on them killing about one of us every two years. There is no fine high enough to recover for the loss of a child, an elder, a wife, or a mayor, just because Jimmie Bob from Cape Sheer Ignorance wants to get to the Redwoods before three PM.
If you believe in freedom you must also believe in respecting the freedom of others. Getting yours is not an exercise in freedom. Getting yours is an exercise is superiorist contempt. You want to get yours don't do it here because we'll get ours too. Ka-ching!
Funny. I failed to see any crosswalks on the I-75 going into Florida and that's where a lot of the highway robbery that I described takes place.
Just because some speed limits are sensible doesn't make others pure funding mechanisms.
I used to travel from Tallahassee to Atlanta via 319 N to I 75 back in the day I drove through Moultrie. There traffic lights are arranged horizontally with a right to left green, yellow, red sequence with the lamps matched for perceived brightness. Strange, until one realizes this is just the right way to do things to get those who have most forms of colorblindness (about 5% of the driving population). Also there in Moultrie just before one enters town from west or east there are speed signs conveniently mostly hidden behind large bushes announcing 25 mph speed limits with no advanced warning for those going at the arrive alive speed. Oh, yeah, there's usually some rib meat filled belly Jimmie Joe Bob sitting in a supercharged dodge wearing a badge just behind that obscuring bush. Now, that's fine worthy. That's taking advantage.
In our neck of the woods we rely on Californians used to driving the 405 at 85 mph acting as if their going to work while driving in beautiful rural coastal Oregon. We have only one road going north south along the coast and it's not an interstate. Its an old US designated highway that runs right through towns where where we plant all of our most important building, schools, emergency buildings, businesses. Since we're so small we don't qualify for lights yet the state highway commission designated it to be a four laner in our town. We defend ourselves. Those shitheads in the east have Interstate whatever everywhere. No need for schools or cross walks there. So before you get all burned up about us rural types checkout what rural types have to put up with with respect to funding, state and national highway regulations, etc.
It seems to be that in rural and small town places there's never enough money to build an overpass or underpass at railway crossings so several hundred of us every year get scraped off the tracks.
I'm thinking that its not so much rural. It seems to be more about values and respect for populations than bumpkins making things better by harvesting the vanities and conceits from city road rage idiots. You city morons think you're entitled. You aren't. Show some respect the next time you cause us to get all our charities out to pickup the trash you throw on our beautiful byways.
Just because you are conservative you aren't entitled to make our towns, farms, and roads as disgusting as are your road cleanliness habits. First it's responsibility, then its freedom. Get it right next time
Nothing personal here. I feel the same about everybody who defends the users from the city.
