The quiet “ding!” told me more than MassDOT could put on a giant sign full of words. A bicycle was approaching on the shared-use trail. I was safe, but I shouldn’t suddenly stand up and back away from the flowers I was looking at. In Massachusetts highway signs are apparently run by the marketing department. […]
345 Blog Posts From the John Carr Tag
Exhausting my patience
MassDOT recently gave the town of Belmont several expensive new sets of traffic signals. Thanks, MassDOT, for making me wait a minute to walk 20 feet across a side street with no traffic. In the world of prescriptive traffic control, you walk when a computer says you can walk. The non-existent cross traffic had a […]
Big bottom
While my full size American car and its full size windows were out of service I borrowed a friend’s Prius. Now I understand the complaints about slow hybrids clogging the fast lane. It’s not necessarily that they don’t care. Slow drivers can’t see a line of traffic and a row of middle fingers through that […]
Real reforms
Missouri lawmakers recently approved bill SB765 banning ticket quotas and SB 572 limiting fines for some traffic offenses to $200. I doubt they will solve the problem. I’ve read too many stories from other jurisdictions. Two simple reforms would force most traffic law enforcement in America to be about traffic law enforcement by eliminating the […]
Fixing it twice
Five years ago my brake system sprung a leak. I had enough fluid left to drive it to my mechanic, who replaced corroded front brake lines. For four years I had no trouble, and then the letters started arriving. GM had belatedly ordered a recall and my car is legally a rolling time bomb. I […]
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