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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
In general, it is probably a pretty good tradeoff for a car to have to sit for a few minutes at 10 PM than have a situation when a car turning left can be HIT and people injured or DEAD. DEAD is more PERMANENT that a few minutes delay - last time I checked. When a Senior is involved in a crash, there would likely, on average, be worse physical and medical outcomes. Then we have a whole slew of costly situations. The children and grandchildren of the injured Senior are negatively affected. A spouse may have been at home. We could have HIGH hospital costs and long physical therapy costs.
.......ALL this pain and suffering because someone has NOT upgraded the roads or added more Police to make up for the increasing Village traffic and drivers pushing the limits of speed and hazardous driving. For me, I would choose life over inconvenience !!!!!
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I disagree (what a surprise). Like I already posted, if you can't see down the road, don't go. That means that those who are stupid enough to go anyway are the few that get into an accident. The suggestion above is yet another attempt to protect these idiots from themselves, ie: just another facet of the Orwellian nanny state, at the expense of the thousands that have no problem whatsoever at that intersection. In this case, I'm in favor of social Darwinism.