Originally Posted by
rastuscat
Red light to the front is a bad idea, and ticketable.
As Gremlin mentioned, it's about others being able to tell which direction you are travelling at night. Often the lights are the only clue, hence the code we have.
It's a bit like nautical navigation lights, red for port, green for starboard. People tell the orientation of the vessel at night by those lights.
Red lights on the front have been all the rage here, especially jeepneys and tricycles. They also use blue, green, orange, and even, sometimes, white, sometimes flashing. Some have even replaced their main headlights with coloured lamps.
Pain in the arse at night when you see a row of red lights coming towards you. DOTC is finally clamping down on it but as with everything else here, it's too little, too late.
"Statistics are used as a drunk uses lampposts - for support, not illumination."
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