01-04-2017, 02:58 PM
Public roads; you have to share them with everyone. So, like having roommates, once you have to share then you have to have rules or else there be trouble.
I've been cruising along I-95 and I-90 and have come across ag equipment (tractors, combines, etc.). While the freeways have a lower limit of 45mph these guys still have to get the fields to grow our food so we can eat (push come to shove, I place eating above driving - call me silly).
Anyway, you get the picture, what and who we have to share the road with means that we need to have rules - and drivers that observe those rules or else we'll have more problems than we have already.
Sidebar regarding the police, emt's etc. Yarnell hill is a stretch of 89A between Wickenburg and Prescott with a posted limit of 45mph with many bikers ignoring it. This hill kills a fair amount riders (not sure about drivers), including a cop a couple years ago. Going too fast into nasty decreasing radius corners and then tend to center punch a guard rail on the exit of the turn (I was talking to a deputy about this). They patrol this section of road heavily because they are people like us but they don't like cleaning up bloody messes that can be prevented if folks just followed the rules.
Be careful out there. Cell phones have really changed things and I think that is still being worked out.
I've been cruising along I-95 and I-90 and have come across ag equipment (tractors, combines, etc.). While the freeways have a lower limit of 45mph these guys still have to get the fields to grow our food so we can eat (push come to shove, I place eating above driving - call me silly).
Anyway, you get the picture, what and who we have to share the road with means that we need to have rules - and drivers that observe those rules or else we'll have more problems than we have already.
Sidebar regarding the police, emt's etc. Yarnell hill is a stretch of 89A between Wickenburg and Prescott with a posted limit of 45mph with many bikers ignoring it. This hill kills a fair amount riders (not sure about drivers), including a cop a couple years ago. Going too fast into nasty decreasing radius corners and then tend to center punch a guard rail on the exit of the turn (I was talking to a deputy about this). They patrol this section of road heavily because they are people like us but they don't like cleaning up bloody messes that can be prevented if folks just followed the rules.
Be careful out there. Cell phones have really changed things and I think that is still being worked out.