Red lights mean stop
Since moving to Texas, I’ve become more of an agressive driver – mostly because I want to stay alive on I-45. I have not, however, picked up the Houstonian habit of running red lights.
I’m not saying everyone does it, but I am saying that enough people do to keep me from ever, under any circumstances, be the first person out in the middle of a busy intersection at a green light (uhm, unless I’m the only one there of course).
The Chronicle talks about a proposed camera system to catch red light runners – only charging them a fine for each light run. Do you think more serious measures should be taken against repeat offenders?
((I’d like to give a shout out to the nice old lady who ran a red light and smashed into my car – and then lied about it to our insurance companies, leaving me to foot the bill. Thanks Cynthia!!))
There should be punishments for repeat offenders. They should lose their police badges.
Oh yeah… this is an issue, but Houstonians are not the only offenders. I was reading the LA Metroblog a few weeks ago where someone had the same comment about LA drivers.
It’s all fun and games until someone runs into a Jaguar and then gas pump and destroys that explodes and destroys their van.
I wonder who’ll be the first lucky winner of the “oops we forgot to replace the battery in that camera” lottery?
Dear Comments Reader: I solemnly swear that I, Paul Chavez, was not drunk while typing my previous comment to this post. I suspect that I was distracted by something like… ehh… work I suppose… and ended up typing something idiotic.
So… now that we’ve squared that one away, let me attempt to type this out again:
It’s all fun and games until someone in a van runs into a Jaguar and then smashes into a gas pump which ends up exploding.