When are we ever going to get the scramble system for crossing the street at an intersection?
It’s simple:
When north / south traffic has a green light the east / west traffic has a red. No right turns allowed. Pedestrians are not allowed to cross in any direction.
When east / west traffic has a green light north / south traffic has a red. No right turns. Pedestrians are not allowed to cross in any direction.
Then guess what!
North / south gets a red the same times east / west gets a red. No right turns. Then the pedestrians get to cross at the intersection any fucking way they want. North / south, east / west or diagonally.
Less traffic issues, less pissed off people and less accidents.
BTW – no damn left hand turns in rush hour traffic. (Personal pet peeve). —Why? Why? Why?
This article appears in Aug 19-25, 2010.
someone knows how to copy and paste!
wow!
your functional operation of a mouse astounds me!
No. I originally put it in the other post but quickly realized that it was an older one that may not be seen.
So point blank. Get your fucking shit together and stop being such a pompous douche bag.
Assholes like you with your holier than thou self entitled attitude make me sick.
Sorry that we cannot all meet your glorious standards and have an opinion of our own that we want to get out there.
In short – stop being such a dick wad, move out of your Mommy’s basement and get a real life.
Have a nice day. 🙂
I do believe I’ve ‘been told’ 🙂
and since I replied with the intent I saw your other, original post….
it must have ‘got out there’ just fine.
was it the exclamation marks that made you lose your shit for a second there?
and I apologize if I’m making you sick… you should have been vaccinated against others opinions. Blame your mom…. in fact, don’t bother. I will blame her for you when I’m with her tonight when we’re trying out our new wedge pillow.
Oh. You been served, OP. It is SO on. >: )
“Are you READDDDYYYY to RUMMMMMMBLLLLLE???!!!”
I’d also like to point out that he traffic here really isn’t that bad…
there’s always worse
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100823/sc_af…
I’ve been to a couple of intersections in TO that operated more or less in this way. And, ok, it’s kind of cool that you can cross diagonally and you don’t have to worry (much) about getting plowed over by someone turning, it doesn’t really help with the flow of traffic except with extremely busy pedestrian crossings.
Maybe the best thing we can do is reduce the number of cars driving downtown and this wouldn’t be an issue.
The scramble system is crap.
All it leads to is people going through red lights and peds crossing on red lights.
Who cares about pedestrians? Let them cross whenever or wherever they want. I pay insurance, so scramble away ants, scramble away. I guarantee my 2500 lb car is gonna win.
The only thing I ask is that no more 4 way stop with 4 way crosswalks on busy intersections. Seriously, no one is going anywhere with that setup.
I say ban cars on the peninsula and make everyone walk. Health care costs in this province would plummet and so would our carbon emissions. What the hell are folks doing all that driving for anyway?
Next, I would ship all the intellectuals, urban office workers, call center employees and squeegee kids out to the rural areas to work on farms. This would be part of my plan for a local food economy.
Following these moves, I would expropriate all property from wealthy capitalists, like the owners of sea food empires who have stripped the oceans clean of the peoples’ fish, and detain these folks as they try to abscond with the peoples’ wealth.
I have many other ideas for improving this part of the world, and I am anxious to implement these plans when the central authorities are too weak to exert any control locally.
I’m not kidding.
fuck the lights, just dash out and meet mr. bumper or miss fender.
thats all we need in this area,the ideas of the kmher rouge,they brought great progress to cambodia and peace to its residences.
You read my mind Ari. That whole “Redemptive Power of the Agrarian Peasantry” is reminiscent of both Pol (Piss) Pot AND Heinlich Rimmler. Mix in some of Charley Manson’s Utopian fantasies as well. Bobo may be ‘avin a laugh or he may be whipping his skippy thinking about living on a commune, writing his own songs and plonking acid-sozzled , fat-titted hippy chix. Harmless.
Maybe we could hook up those un-used RCMP tasers to the lights and if a pedestrian tried to jaywalk or cross when they shouldn’t, it zaps the shittles and trots out of them.
i must o’ve sent that to you sory.kidding