By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-25 14:58:12 | Updated at 2024-11-26 19:38:20
1 day ago
The D.C. Council banned turning right on red citywide. It won’t be enforced.
The Washington Post ^ | November 25, 2024 | Rachel Weiner and Joe Heim
Posted on 11/25/2024 6:39:17 AM PST by Kudsman
A law banning cars from turning right at all red lights across D.C. was set to start with the new year. But city transportation officials, who never supported the blanket ban, have pumped the brakes because the D.C. Council failed to earmark money to alert drivers to the change.
As it stands, the city will only enforce a ban at about half of the District’s 1,600 intersections, where they have erected signs notifying drivers they can’t turn right on red
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No mention of the hazard of turning left on red? Come on man!
1 posted on 11/25/2024 6:39:17 AM PST by Kudsman
To: Kudsman
Just a bunch of left wing bureaucrats trying to get any money for more boondoggles
2 posted on 11/25/2024 6:41:40 AM PST by BigEdLB ( Let’s go Brandon)
To: Kudsman
Besides, you get to burn a lot more gas sitting at an intersection waiting to turn right.
3 posted on 11/25/2024 6:43:20 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Answer: My least favorite plantation team sports are the NBA and NFL.)
To: Kudsman
Meanwhile the evil D.C. Council is encouraging drivers to turn to the left as much as possible.
4 posted on 11/25/2024 6:43:36 AM PST by Carl Vehse
To: Kudsman
They’re incapable of doing something of significance.
5 posted on 11/25/2024 6:43:52 AM PST by ABStrauss (I miss Rush!)
To: Kudsman
Laws are optional. It mostly depends on Who you are.
6 posted on 11/25/2024 6:44:00 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
To: Kudsman
It was in the 80s that D.C. forced this change on the entire country. Lose your federal $$$ if a state didn’t do this right on red stuff
To: Kudsman
The REAL MONEY will be made by Red Light Cameras, which make something like 90% of their revenue by people failing to come to a FULL STOP before turning right at red lights.
8 posted on 11/25/2024 6:46:53 AM PST by BobL
To: Kudsman
Reigning-in the DC government and its courts must be a Republican priority. Ignore the Republican
-hating citizens’ yelps about lost home rule.
9 posted on 11/25/2024 6:48:44 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
To: ClearCase_guy
“...It mostly depends on Who you are.”
Or where you are.
In North Minneapolis (My Hood) you can turn on any color any direction from any lane just because....
Never trust a stop sign or a traffic circle.
10 posted on 11/25/2024 6:51:04 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
To: Kudsman
Right turn on red is one of the few laws that is actually beneficial. So naturally, the Nannies want to ban it.
11 posted on 11/25/2024 6:54:07 AM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
To: ClearCase_guy
“Laws are optional. It mostly depends on Who you are”
You got that right......one particular ethnicity sees our laws as having been made in an inherently racist country so they use that as an excuse to not obey them.
12 posted on 11/25/2024 6:55:22 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: cyclotic
Spent a week in Puerto Rico back in 2003.....I discovered while there that the sidewalk is actually a right turn lane! Lol!
True story ✋️
13 posted on 11/25/2024 6:57:37 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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