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Originally Posted by kcrazorbackfan
Seriously, what can you expect with 100k residents? No accidents? Maybe where we moved from (Smithville, MO w/ a pop. of 8k residents). Accidents are going to happen with this many people, the "in season", the people that are new residents, new snowbirds, people that have aged in place here and their skills have diminished - YOUR NECK HAS TO BE ON A SWIVEL AT ALL TIMES TO KEEP FROM BECOMING A STATISTIC. As the commercial used to say, "watch out for the other guy".
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Exactly. I worked in a small city of 100,000 people 20 miles south of Boston for over 20 years. I'd be surprised if a day went by without some kind of accident. There are probably several ever day.
We are a community of over 100,000 people with three or four 45 mph roads going east to west. It's ridiculous to get all worked up every time there is a little accident. Some people are not god drivers. An extremely large percentage of our driver are very old and perhaps many should not have a license.
I wouldn't want to see red arrows at these intersections. There are too many times, especially in the summer months where you be waiting to make a left turn at a light for no reason. Some impatient people would just go through the light in these cases.
We don't live in a perfect world. As long as there are cars, there are going to be accidents. The more cars, the more accidents. The older (or younger) the drivers, the more accidents we'll have.