🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 20:54:42 -0400, Lucky wrote...
> You'd be amazed how many people do not know about trip bars.  I think they
> should teach it during your driving test.  There is a light near my house
> which has the white line and trip bar far from the intersection.  I laugh
> (or feel pity depending on my mood) when I drive by and see them pulled
> way up to the light (which is very dangerous at that intersection
> anyway).  It will never turn for them until someone comes up behind them.

Here in SWVA they seem to be the norm.  However, in DC & suburbs, where 
everyone seems to be from, timers are much more common.  There are 
several intersections on main street where the white line for the turn 
arrow is *very* far back in the intersection.  If you wait patiently at 
the white line you'll get a turn arrow *after* the green in your 
direction (opposite of what I'm used to) however if you pull way up to 
try and dart through traffic, you won't trip the sensor, won't get the 
light, have to back up, and are then shocked when the next cycle of the 
light goes round, and you don't get an arrow before the green.

Me?  I happily sit at the white line, and am quick enough that if a gap 
in traffic opens up, I can get through w/o sitting in the middle of the 
intersection first. 

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