Yup. Boston drivers be crazy! And cities with a lot of influx (L.A., I’m looking at you) have exactly the problem you saw in NJ: it takes a while for newbies to learn the new norm.
edited to add: In Chicago, the norm was 2 more cars could turn left after the light turned, except for diagonal streets, which meant 3 more could go.
Like every other city that uses the money grab red light cameras, Chicago uses them 99.999% for MONEY and 0.001% for safety. Chicago deliberately times the yellow intervals too short to generate tickets mostly from safe drivers. They also ticket safe slow rolling right on red turns which federal research shows are involved in only 0.06% of crashes with injuries or fatalities.
Only the terminally naive believe that red light cameras are about safety. They are NOT about safety, they are about money and they rip off mostly safe drivers to get it. If governments were not the for-profit business partners of the for-profit camera companies, red light cameras would be deemed a racket, an ongoing criminal enterprise.
James C. Walker, Life Member - National Motorists Association
What do you think society could or should do here?
The guy’s name in Jay Beeber. He is a fellow of the Reason Foundation and is now running for a seat on the LA City Council.
Stop inflicting incapacitating pain?
Stop putting up posters about how “x is accessible” and start trying to ensure x really is accessible to people with a variety of disabilities?
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