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| Regarding Red Light Cameras - Why don't drivers just stop?. | 17 Mar 2007 06:35 GMT | 56 |
Every stop light i've ever seen has a yellow plenty long for the driver to get thru the intersection before the light turns red or else to stop. Trouble is there are all these psychopathic drivers who see a light turn yellow when they are still 10 car lengths from the ...
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| Another Invisible Bus | 17 Mar 2007 03:56 GMT | 3 |
I guess this bus had its cloaking device engaged. :) http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/gardengrove/article_1608899.php 2 badly hurt in bus crash Van driver, 14-year-old passenger critically injured; 5 bus passengers
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| Dumb parking law being repealed | 16 Mar 2007 22:45 GMT | 15 |
In Pekin, Illinois a law in the books until recently required all cars parked on city streets to leave a light on. Result was numerous complaints of dead batteries. The law has recently been repealed, and would you believe there was opposition?
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| Slow it down! | 16 Mar 2007 22:28 GMT | 22 |
http://www.cnn.com/video/partners/clickability/index.html?url=/video/world/2007/ 03/15/pleitgen.germany.speed.cnn It seems that some environmentalists want to force everyone to drive slower to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and fuel consumption. What they seem to be missing is ...
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| Instant no-parking zone | 16 Mar 2007 21:29 GMT | 10 |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/6446933.stm Yellow lines 'painted under car' A motorist claims workmen lifted up her car and moved it on to repainted double yellow lines so they could mark the road under her vehicle.
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| Why There Are MFFYs | 16 Mar 2007 21:20 GMT | 4 |
I've mentioined before about the Kiss-n-Ride drop-off at the train station near my home. For those who missed my earlier posts, the driveway has a choke point just past the parking area. Literally every morning there will be at least one a.shole who stops their car in the
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| At $3 a gallon, perhaps scooter commuting is the way to go -- and they're fun! | 16 Mar 2007 18:49 GMT | 4 |
If you need a sound argument to justify getting a scooter to your parents, or your spouse (or even, for some of us, to our children), this page has the arguments all laid out and ready to send:
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| Watch What You Throw, Aunt Judy | 16 Mar 2007 15:21 GMT | 59 |
Those handfuls of marbles you like to toss could land you in the pokey! http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/012007/01052007/248844 Tossing bag nets 2 years
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| Brent Will Like This | 16 Mar 2007 05:31 GMT | 13 |
A bicycle commuter put a video camera on the back of his bike and recorded his trip: http://www.thebikegeek.com/video/flvplayer.swf?file=http://www.thebikegeek.com/i mages/commute.flv Watch now this guy alternately passes and is passed by the same
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| Local Nobody Writes About Road Congestion; Good Points Ensue | 16 Mar 2007 03:02 GMT | 29 |
>From Tucson's Arizona Daily Star: "My opinion George F. Will: Highway congestion begs new solutions" http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/transportation/172839 Its a moderately interesting article, but I absolutely fell in love
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| The Great Global Warming Swindle. | 16 Mar 2007 02:51 GMT | 14 |
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9005566792811497638 Ed calling it kooky conspiracy stuff in 1 2
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| Mostly OT: For Ed, Eeyore, and jaybird | 15 Mar 2007 21:56 GMT | 3 |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=4421 50&in_page_id=1770 <...> Homeowners who refuse to make their properties energy efficient will face financial penalties under drastic government plans to transform Britain
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| The money in traffic tickets is just wacky conspiracy theory... right? | 15 Mar 2007 18:07 GMT | 1 |
Here I go again... spreading wacky conspiracy theory..... http://www.examiner.com/a-620012~Firm_donated_during_traffic_bid.html <...> WASHINGTON - The Texas company under fire in the District for allegedly
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| Sleeping pills can cause 'sleep-driving' | 15 Mar 2007 14:03 GMT | 12 |
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/03/14/sleep.drug.warning.ap/index.html "All prescription sleeping pills may sometimes cause sleep-driving, federal health officials warned Wednesday, almost a year after the bizarre side effect first made headlines when Rep. Patrick Kennedy
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| DUI murders two kids - Gets 20 years | 15 Mar 2007 09:57 GMT | 5 |
This is a significant sentence but he deserved a lot more. I'm no coddler. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_ 5414127,00.html Driver in fatal crash sentenced to 20 years
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