Re: I have been CHALLENGED. . .

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:22:27 +0900, dagbrown@xxxxxxx (Dave Brown)
said in <3mrl2g.k3n.ln@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

Those are all specific instances.

Sure. As are all the specific instances where drivers think it's OK
to exceed the speed limit, park illegally or whatever. And all the
specific instances where pedestrians think it's fine to wander
across the road while looking the other way and listening to their
iPod.

Hell, life is one long set of specific instances.

As I think I said earlier, I have not seen anything to persuade me
that any class of road user is particularly disposed to compliance.
Pedestrians are probably the most anarchist road user group, also
the most vulnerable. Yes, drivers *hate* cyclists going through red
lights, but this is mainly, I believe, an expression of frustration
at the traffic which makes lights necessary and envy of a person who
is not being held up by it.

In the end, traffic lights exist mainly to ration the scarce
resource of road space between too many competing motor vehicles.
There are very few places where cycle or pedestrian traffic is
sufficient to require such controls.

Guy
--
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
[Proverbs 1:25]
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