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Re: you people drive CRAZY!




In article <41t1eq$e2v@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> Phyllis Wilder
<pwilder@comp.vpt.gwu.edu> writes:

> luriete@ccshp1.ccs.csus.edu (Joshua Lurie-Turrell) wrote:
> >I spent the last week and a half in DC, having a mostly fantastic time 
> >(your museums are easily the best in the country - I spent hours in the 
> >Corcoran, Hirshorn, National, Phillips, etc), but noticed that there are 
> >a very large number of dangerously insane drivers out there - i saw more 
> >people run red lights in the dupont circle area (i was staying at the 
> >hilton on connecticut, up the hill from dupont circ) and throughout the 
> >NW streets... than I ever have in any other city anywhere - incl NYC!
> >
> >EAch red light must have had at least 2 people run it, and yellow seems 
> >to mean "speed up" not slow down out there. Crazy, boss.
> >
> I have been in DC for 16 years now after moving here from NYC.  I see two 
> problems here in DC. 
> 
>      1)  The road test for driving licences in DC is a joke. (speaking 
>          from personal experience, of course);
> 
>      2)  DC has the longest yellow lights in creation therefore making 
>          people think that they have time to get through the intersection 
>          before the light changes red.  And more often than not you do.

Except that in DC, it is illegal to run a YELLOW light as well as a red
one.  (Unless that was changed over the past few years; it certainly
used to be enforced.)

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