Well when I was a first grader we were taught to look left, right, and left again before crossing the street and to use the crosswalk. I assume that still applies.
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Ever since every person over the age of 5 seems to have a cell phone.
Assume nothing, it’s a brave new world out there.
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Me too. But did you grow up in a city with very heavy traffic? Lawrence MA is a small city in MA with heavy traffic most days. Especially during morning and evening rush-hour. 6-10yo crossing Rt 28 is frightening enough under the best of conditions. Boston traffic is 20-30 times worse. I’m glad traffic has to stop on both sides of a double yellow line.
I still don’t understand why New York state requires traffic both ways to stop for a school bus with something such as this:
dividing directions of travel. It’s a pedestrian barrier along one quarter mile of a boulevard in my hometown, but just using it as an example of how absurd New York’s policy is.
So you are trying to understand New York?
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I’m also trying to understand your question.
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Honestly, Chris, NEWYORK is a crazy state and when Donald Trump said NY is a doomed State he wasn’t kidding.
I own real estate in this State, so moving to another State isn’t at my leisure.
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You said you were trying to understand new. York law. I submit there is no understanding possible. If you can understand insanity, that will help.
When you travel to white plains it looks just like that picture you posted. And you better stop for the school bus or risk getting 5 points on your license and 25% insurance increase, and a $250 fine.
My guess is to maintain safety if kids need to cross the street.
Be thankful you live in New York State. The fine would easily be double that here. 42 in a 35 speeding tickets, over $400 fine here.
Good grief. In my 20 years of driving on the road, I’ve never really driven the exact speed limit. I’m either below it or above it by 5 to 8. I can’t imagine anyone else driving the exact posted speed limit required by the law. And it infuriates me to know police actually go out of their ridiculous way to ticket people for a single digit.
Saw a video recently on YouTube where a police officer was clocked by an ordinary bystander exceeding the posted speed limit in a school zone and when he realized he got busted, he stopped his car and began explaining himself along with a warning for the bystander to leave the area.
I try to stay within +/- 2mph of it.
The problem with going the speed limit is that most cars since the late 1990s can blow the speed limit with just a few taps of the gas! Even my 2010 Honda feels like it’s crawling at 30mph PSL(posted speed limit).
Oh hell yea! My car tends to send me flying over the speed limit in seconds when I got on the interstate, and it’s only 260 HP and considered slow to most Americans.
Funny thing is, I can control the speed in my carbureted muscle car with a full manual shift 3 speed automatic and a lot of torque wayyyy better than the low HP Vibe/Matrix 5 speed manual (stick shift) transmission with the drive by wire throttle body,… All the other automatics in the family are much easier to control speed then the manual trans with drive by wire, even the 92 Civic 5 speed is easier… Have I mentioned I hate drive by wire on a stick shift… lol
I grew up in NY and travel back there at least 3 times a year. I’ve NEVER EVER been stopped for doing 45 in a 35. Nor have I heard of anyone. I regularly drive trough speed traps on the Thruway doing just under 75 and the troopers don’t even blink.
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That is a culture thing here. It infects even those who are hired to enforce posted limits.
Signs should be redesigned as such:
“MIN.
SPEED LIMIT:
55”
I believe this is a matter of how the manufacturer sets up the pedal travel on the drive by wire vehicles.
To compensate for low performance or low power vehicles, the manufacturers adjust the pedal sensitivity to be higher at low RPM, giving the driver the sense of the vehicles having more power…
On my two vehicles that have the “fly by wire” gas pedal, the 2019 Toyota with its 2000cc, automatic transmission has a very level progression of acceleration… You give the pedal a little movement, the gas accelerates a bit… The 2000cc engine is very zippy for regular driving…
However on the 2020 Honda Fit with its 1600cc, automatic transmission is very sensitive to any movement of the gas pedal from an idle, you give the car a bit of gas and it wants to “take off”… once up to speed, 30 MPH of higher, the smaller engine shows its weakness…
The Honda Service manager said that is the way the manufacturer set it up the initial acceleration so you feel like the car is more “powerful” than it really is…
Nooo, This is more of the computer thinking the driver needs it’s help to know how much to depress the pedal, everyone that has driven the vehicle has stalled it, yet they all have been driving sticks all their driving life’s, one second your rpms are 1500 and the next 3000 or you stall it… WE don’t need a computers help to know how much gas to use to start off… Both the older and new Corollas drive fine as both are automatics… I’ve driven late model muscle cars with very stiff clutches that were easier to not stall out…
If I give the gas pedal X% of movement, the computer should not be thinking, hummm, did he mean this amount or this amount or maybe this amount of throttle, NO computer, I told you what I wanted, now leave it alone… 
“Good grief” is spot on imho. The problem with excessive fines like this is while it does add funds for the court, it takes that money from the local businesses.
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