Eureka Does Traffic Education
The City of Eureka will be starting a traffic education campaign aimed at reducing the number of collisions in town. We'll see how that goes. Reading our very own Charlie Bean's My Word column on traffic safety in the paper this morning, it looks like there will be at least some common sense input. He is on the Traffic Commission (or whatever it's called) after all.
Whether this effort will reach drivers and pedestrians, color me skeptical, although I won't argue with the intent. Much of this should be common sense, but you just don't see it that often.
Case in point, although in Santa Rosa, I'm sure we've all seen similar situations here in Eureka as described in today's Santa Rosa Press- Democrat:
A guy is walking his two dogs. He comes to a crosswalk where the light just turned green. Rather than press the pedestrian crossing button, he just heads across the street. A car hits him and his two dogs then speeds off. The guy gets scraped up and his dogs suffer injuries but are still alive.
What gets me is most of the comments to the story seems to focus on the driver not stopping at the crosswalk. The story itself mentions him not pressing the pedestrian crossing button. There's no mention of the guy not looking to see if traffic was stopped or stopping before he crossed the street.
The guy and his dogs got hit but not killed so the car that hit them must have been going fairly slow, yet they got hit, regardless. Did the guy bother looking before crossing the street? He should have easily seen a car that wasn't going to stop.
He could have stood on the curb a few seconds longer when he saw the car wasn't stopping and avoided the whole thing. Heck, it may not be legal but you can cross the street with a red light if you're paying attention and there's no cars coming.
I'm not saying it's his fault, but people run stop signs and lights. He needs to check for oncoming traffic. I'm not sure and education campaign will have any effect on those feet on the streets, but I guess there's nothing to be lost by trying.
posted by Fred Mangels @ 8:37 AM
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3 Comments:
"Henchman Of Justice" says,
A Traffic Commission, holy fucking shit, how many people are needed to screw in a light bulb?
Too many Humboldt Politicians are really stupid, bought and sold or too busy with other insatiable political public relation issues.
Traffic problems are that HWY 101 runs through Eureka, period. Fix that and the shit hole is a nicer place to live, less pedestrian incidents, etc....but alas, too many old timers who believe that the "little city" will die due to less traffic.
People and their old lame reasons and dumbfounded beliefs have fucked Eureka sooooooo bad, enough former residents talk shit all-the-time about how bad it is and its getting worse.
"Henchman Of Justice" says,
The laws are flawed because people have an easier time in avoiding any accidents as compared to a vehicle in motion.
Either crosswalks are used appropriately and properly by design, function and instructions BY ALL OR THEY ARE NOT EFECTIVE.
Last week in Mack Town at a crosswalk next to Pierson's Shopping Center, a guy talking on his mobile phone nearly impaled HOJ, but HOJ being the sly cat he is, jumped up and over the driver-side corner like a triathlete, no injury but definately the "stare down".
Consumers once again show by example and action they are more selfish for their toys and gadgets than caring about the safety and health of other human beings, typical consumptory bullshit cause and effect by selfish humanoids.
Now, had camera surveillance systems been installed at that intersection, the driver could have been cited and the State could have got "fair taxes" through their "penalty fee structures" for a driver who deserves to feel "pocket pains" for being selfish no less.
Screw drivers who talk on their bullshit consumer devices...never needed them before, don't need them now. Puke on people's consumption.
HOJ
Thats funny s*** HOJ the fact of the matter is no amount of laws or public awarenes is going to stop idiots from being idiots
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