Rigpig wrote:
Well
a. They are still breaking the law
b. I have witnessed a good number not doing it that way at all. A car, at dusk the other evening, simply running straight through a red light at which I was waiting at more or less normal driving speed for that road. Another forced to abort a right turn because they had left it so late going through the red light that the oncoming car had started to move and was going to be covering their 'exit' if they had continued.
a) That is, of course, a bad thing because the law is meant to be about safety and consideration. When it ceases to be that, whilst regularly imposing needless restriction, then it becomes an ass.
b) I would say you are referring to a different kind of RL jumper. If you can see them doing it then they have failed in what should be their task of making sure no-one is around. It's only a matter of time before the police catch them.
Rigpig wrote:
The law doesn't encourage its own disobedience Smeggy, its the arrogance of people and their propensity to do what the hell they like because nobody ever challenges bad behaviour these days that creates disobedience.
A law can encourage it’s own disobedience, but it isn’t the case here; the issue here is it’s overuse.
Flip side:
It’s the arrogance of authorities and their propensity to do what the hell they like because nobody ever challenges their self-interested behaviour these days that creates disobedience.Rigpig wrote:
We can't go around changing or softening every law that people disobey just because it gives them the immediate convenience of, in this case, not having to wait.
We’re not talking about changing/softening laws are we; this one is fine as it is.
The problem is how it is needlessly overused. Roundabout everywhere are being converted to full-time traffic light controlled junctions (certainly in my area anyway). Part-time lights on busy roundabouts, during peak times, would have been the perfect compromise. Why do we have to needlessly suffer the other extreme, all the time?