Red light runners

[Ixion]

What they want is a honking big steel barrier at all lights that swings up when the lights go red.

[borg]

What they want is a honking big steel barrier at all lights that swings up when the lights go red.

Snipers perhaps?

[Ixion]

With spikes. I bet then that people would find that they could stop for the orange after all.

[vifferman]

With spikes. I bet then that people would find that they could stop for the orange after all.

Hey!!
That's my idea: the road spikes that pop up on a red light. Red light runners would learn VERY quickly.

[Pwalo]

Look I know what. Why don't we make it illegal. That'll stop people doing it.

[Jekkyl]

Look I know what. Why don't we make it illegal. That'll stop people doing it.

Top plan! Oh wait..........

We should give the

[devnull]

Top plan! Oh wait..........

We should give the

Nah... It's us that need the
No need to bother the

[BiK3RChiK]

No good for emergency service vehicles though... Red light cameras should automatically be installed on busy intersections IMO and tickets issued promptly with no excuses accepted!

[rwh]

Perhaps counters like the ones in Queen Street... so there's no guessing the period of time that the orange will be lit, then if you cross the line when it's red, you're ticketed... no excuses, no ambiguity, and none of this police crap like it went red when you reached the middle of the intersection.

Didn't know they had counters, but I was thinking of something similar. Numbers can be hard to read - I was thinking of something that looks like a moving pie chart - starts all green, then the orange sector sweeps round over say 5 seconds till it's all orange, at which point it switches to red. That might be too hard to see too, though.

Richard

[borg]

Didn't know they had counters, but I was thinking of something similar. Numbers can be hard to read - I was thinking of something that looks like a moving pie chart - starts all green, then the orange sector sweeps round over say 5 seconds till it's all orange, at which point it switches to red. That might be too hard to see too, though.

Richard

Sorry, I forgot to mention those counters are for pedestrians only... but a similar or identical concept to that could be used for traffic to good effect I imagine.

[Livvy]

Sorry, I forgot to mention those counters are for pedestrians only... but a similar or identical concept to that could be used for traffic to good effect I imagine.

Could do.

I've had people suggest I go out and buy spikes, throw them down when the light turns red and the pedestrian crossing goes green and say it was an accident when Mr Big-Ego Business Man thinks he's too good for the red, and when Mrs I-Gotta-Make-Sure-My-Brats-Get-To-School in her SUV can't wait for her green loose their front tyres.

[PrincessBandit]

Hey!!
That's my idea: the road spikes that pop up on a red light. Red light runners would learn VERY quickly.

Not it's not, it's mine mine all mine. () Twas the first thing that crossed my mind when I started reading, but both you and Ixion beat me to it.
I think it would be a great idea, but then there'd be bound to be some retard who would compromise it somehow (just like computer hacker shits) just to revel in the mayhem they'd cause (or "just because we could"). Not to mention all the goody goody's who would jump up and down that you couldn't possibly punish them like that - they might hurt themselves if their car lost control on all it's punctured tyres. Boo frickity hoo to them, suck on lemons and all that....

[jrandom]

suck on lemons...

While we're on the subject, last night I tried slicing lemons fairly thickly and baking salmon steaks under them with a fair amount of raw sugar sprinkled over the top.

I didn't wrap it in foil, because there wasn't any left in the drawer.

Try it sometime! It was delicious. Avoid putting any oil on it; just bake it dry and crispy (I kinda spoiled it with olive oil last night, but that's what experimenting's like). Probably a good idea to sit the salmon on a bit of greaseproof paper in the baking dish, too.

Goes very well with spinach wilted in a hot pan, a slice of fresh ciabatta and the Marlborough sauvignon blanc of your choice.

[ManDownUnder]

Thanks for that report from 3rd Base Dan... now over some someone in right field...

While we're on the subject, last night I tried slicing lemons fairly thickly and baking salmon steaks under them with a fair amount of raw sugar sprinkled over the top.

I didn't wrap it in foil, because there wasn't any left in the drawer.

Try it sometime! It was delicious. Avoid putting any oil on it; just bake it dry and crispy (I kinda spoiled it with olive oil last night, but that's what experimenting's like). Probably a good idea to sit the salmon on a bit of greaseproof paper in the baking dish, too.

Goes very well with spinach wilted in a hot pan, a slice of fresh ciabatta and the Marlborough sauvignon blanc of your choice.

[Patrick]

Perhaps counters like the ones in Queen Street... so there's no guessing the period of time that the orange will be lit, then if you cross the line when it's red, you're ticketed... no excuses, no ambiguity, and none of this police crap like it went red when you reached the middle of the intersection.

Here in the Naki they have a video for this. Every "excuse" is, usually, "it was orange." That is, until they see the video.... solid red before they enter... Those half way through when it then turns red aren't the problem.

During the last 12 months I have noticed more red light runners in NP too. A green to me means "wait for a bit to see what wanker is ignoring their red light". Seems it's becoming more "acceptable"

Nope. Not here in the Naki.... Have access to video footage to prove it. Some of it just makes you cringe, waiting for the bang from those moving off on the greens....