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Honolulu, Hawaii police will begin to write tickets for people caught using their phones or other electronic devices while crossing at a crosswalk:
Police in Honolulu will begin writing tickets for people who get distracted by their cellphones while walking in a cross walk Wednesday. Honolulu is the first major city in the country to pass such a law, citing a high rate of pedestrians being hit in crosswalks.
"Starting today, texting while walking in a cross walk can get you a ticket," Hawaii Public Radio's Bill Dorman reports for our Newscast unit. "In fact, a downward glance at a screen of any kind will cost you—a phone, a tablet, a video game."
Under the new law, the only legal reason for a pedestrian to use a cellphone while crossing a street or highway would be to call 911 to report an emergency.
Minimum fines for breaking the new law start at $15; for repeat offenders, the penalty ranges from $75 to $99. Higher rates — up to $100 for a first offense, $200 for a second, and $500 for a third — had been considered earlier this year.
Also at the City and County of Honolulu. Bill 6 (2017).
(Score: 5, Interesting) by jcross on Wednesday October 25 2017, @08:22PM (3 children)
Anything to avoid talking about why we have corridors of death running right next to our homes and businesses. If roads were something like deep canyons, hell even just six feet deep, the builders would be required by law to put a wall or fence alongside. But obviously that would be expensive so in this one case we just say it's the pedestrian's lookout. It doesn't help that in most places pedestrians are as a group less numerous and less wealthy than drivers. I believe this creates a constant level of anxiety when near a road that becomes hard to notice. I only really notice it by its absence when I'm in the pedestrian district of an old European city.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday October 25 2017, @10:06PM (2 children)
For each road and highway, here and there dig deep pits that are one lane ways and about thirty feet long.
Line the bottoms of each hole with pungee sticks.
When DUI collisions tick back up, fill in the old holes then dig new ones.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by jcross on Thursday October 26 2017, @02:18AM (1 child)
Interesting, I'm thinking the inattentive drivers would fill the holes up for you. Just level with fill dirt and pave right over them. Add in a few solid headstones for alert drivers to dodge.
Seriously though, I sometimes wonder what roads would look like if every traffic fatality had a marker of some kind. You do see little memorials here and there, but I would assume that's just a small sample of the total. Would it act as a memento mori or just another feature of the landscape? I'm not sure whether it's a thing elsewhere but around here we have "ghost bikes" which are bikes painted white and decorated with flowers, to show where a cyclist got killed by a car. There are quite a few of them.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday October 26 2017, @06:15AM
The speed limit of the road that goes the whole length of Baja California is 35 MPH. I was doing 90 most of the time.
There is a large sign by the side of the road that says "This road was built for economic development, not for speed."
Whenever a car wrecked on that highway, they would push it off the side of the road - patrol cars have robust front bumpers for that very purpose - then leave it there forever.
Most of them were upside-down.
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