Broken traffic signals

[RobertN]

I am amazed sitting here. I work on the second floor of a building that looks out on a busy 6 lane road. there's a high school across the street, my work and the high school both have entrances with lights right here.

The power is out to a few local signal lights. That means you treat them as a stop sign(at least in California). Some people are stopping, but a number of people are blowing thru at 40-50 mph(normal speed on road). In amoungst all this, there are people make left hand turns onto the main road, and in to both the business and high school parking lots.

There have been a few close calls as I have watched. I'm surprised there have not been any crashes...

I'm guessing people are not paying attention, and don't notice without the red/yellow/green lights.

 

[Bird]

Maybe it's just a day for it, Robert. There's a road that goes under I-35W a couple of miles north us us; hospital on the NE corner, Quick Trip convenience store/service station on SE corner, service station on the NW corner, and medical clinic on the SW corner, and the signal lights were not working today. It's not a power outage since all of them are flashing red all directions. But no one's going through at a high rate of speed because traffic is backed up a couple of hundred yards in every direction. But then a little later today, in a nice residential area, there's an intersection with 4-way stop signs and as I approached, a vehicle coming on my right at about 25 mph never even slowed down as she blew through the stop signs. I'm guessing, from the way she was looking around, that she was looking for a particular address and never even saw the stop sign.

 

[riptides]

I That means you treat them as a stop sign(at least in California). ..

i thought it was common law that signal outs are treated as 4-Way stops.

Scary.

-Mike Z.

 

[MrJimi]

It is in Florida, if they aint on their darn cellphone

 

[Soundguy]

i thought it was common law that signal outs are treated as 4-Way stops.

Scary.

-Mike Z.

Yep.. that's how i treat them her ein fl.

Boy.. you should have seen it during the hurricanes. people were blowing thru intersections like no tomorrow..

soundguy

 

[RollTideRam]

The problem around here is most people don't know how to go through a 4-way stop. They just pull up and stop, and then take off. I guess they don't care about the other 3 people. JC

 

[RonMar]

Set up a video camera. Might make some money selling the footage to the local news or one of those incredible video shows... Failed stoplight disclipline is a very common example of how easy society breaks down when the trons stop flowing.

 

[SnowRidge]

Every place I have ever lived treated a failed traffic signal as a four way stop by law, and in every place I've ever lived, the number of morons that ran them was at the same time amazing and frightening.

I think we need to make it a firing squad offense.

 

[Soundguy]

I'm not sure why people forget basic traffic laws when the power goes out???

soundguy

 

[RobertN]

I think people are very visual most of the time; if they do not see red/yellow/green in front of them, it does not register. Add to that cell phones, radio and other distractions; a lot of poeple do not pay enough attention.

I'm not sure why people forget basic traffic laws when the power goes out???

soundguy