... I'm about to spend a LOT of time on the road, what with it being vacation, and what with me driving up the coast to central PA and back down to the tip of Florida where I call home (8 states in 8 days!) ... and with that many hours in the car, I'm going to need everyone to agree to obey the laws of the road. That goes double for Floridians, who are abusing the right on red rules left and right (so to speak) -- seeing as how that's the single state in which I'll be spending the most hours in an automobile.
I am sick and tired of being on the right lane of a two lane road at a red light and watching a car come up beside me in the left lane, pause briefly and then decide that it could go right on red directly in front of me. When I see green, my foot hits the gas, and I shouldn't have to worry about checking to see if the idiot next to me plans to cut me off because they are late to their next drug deal.
Not quite as dangerous, but just as wrong, is what I've seen lately on my daily walks, with a car at a similar intersection of two four lane roads that drives up in the right lane, fakes a turn on right, and then drives across all four lanes on the opposite road to continue going straight on the street where they should have been stopped at the red light in the first place.
Right on red is a right only granted widely in my lifetime (ostensibly because it was to help save gas during the shortage in the seventies) ... and if y'all keep on abusing it, they're going to take it away. And if they do, then I'll say on that day -- THAT is why we can't have nice things, Florida!
Wish me luck (trip starts Tuesday)!
A DISCUSSION ON THE FLORIDA LAWS:
http://www.city-data.com/forum/florida/1497448-fl-traffic-laws-right-turn-red-2.html
A BRIEF HISTORY OF RIGHT ON RED:
http://energy.gov/articles/right-turn-red
TIME TO STUDY UP:
http://www.seemedrive.com/low-vision-driving-tips-02/12_0_3_0_C/
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