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Topic: Really REALLY EZ Pass (AKA: Product protects license plates from being photographed)
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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays
Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 12-16-2004 02:47 PM
quote: Randy Stankey
Easy... Don't go through! Just sit there. Put the car in park and wait
NO! You pull through, pull over to the shoulder, park, and get it settled if you are so inclined. GO!! Don't hold a hundred people up and create a traffic jam (or a bigger jam) because of your misfortune.
This is what causes a lot of traffic tie-ups and accidents; people who think they're the only ones on the road, and give no thought or consideration to what's behind them.
Here's something else that causes me to lay on my air horn... people who DON'T READ SIGNS and follow an EZ-PASS lane all the way to the booth, where they STOP and wonder what to do (or, worse, try to BACK UP!). The western spur of the Jersey Turnpike, outside NYC, has high-speed EZ-PASS lanes. You go through at 55 mph, and the cash people have to stop and go through the toll plaza on the right. For TWO MILES big signs say, "EZ-PASS only, left lanes. Tickets, right lanes", then, "EZ-PASS ONLY, left lanes", and "EZ-PASS ONLY". Don't you know, nearly everytime I go through there, there's some dumb SOB BACKING UP on the freakin' freeway, creating a dangerous condition, because he can't pay attention!!! ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
And, speaking of EZ-PASS... they DO clock your speed going through there. I found this out the hard way. The speed limit in PA (and on the George Washington Bridge) is only 5mph through the standard EZ-PASS toll booth lanes, and I used to take my 75' tractor-trailer through there at 35 sometimes (watch those mirrors!!). ![[Wink]](wink.gif) I just figured the speed limit was because that's what the equipment needed to work - to read the transponders - and since I kept getting green lights, I figured it was working and kept going through faster and faster. Then, one day, I started getting "Call EZ-PASS" lights. They'd suspended my transponder! My company got another one for me, but now I never go more than 5 over the posted.
Although, one day, I'd love to blow through at about 70! I know I could do it and not hit anything. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 12-16-2004 10:22 PM
Colorado Springs is lousy with traffic cameras. They're all over the place. At any significant intersection, there's at least four of them pointing into the intersection. Some are the type that bust you for running red lights. Some merely watch traffic levels to allow manual adjustment of green light and red light times. Others are there for things like accidents and road conditions. The trouble is you can't tell them apart. They all look the same. I think the ones in this photo are for busting red light runners. They're pointed down into the intersection.
As far as I know, Oklahoma has no red light traffic cameras in use...yet. I would expect that to change fairly soon, especially up in Tulsa. Certain intersections in Tulsa (specifically along Memorial Road) often appear in top 10 lists of most dangerous intersections in the United States.
Oklahoma does have lots of automatic cameras installed at all the toll booths along the state's turnpikes. Most take at least two exposures. One of the vehicle plate and another of the vehicle's front, which often shows you behind the wheel.
quote: Thomas King
If you're running yellow lights two close, you deserve a fine (I'm a pedestrian, you know).
If you're walking across the street while the light is turning yellow for the direction of traffic, you deserve fine. You're jay-walking. And you may be suicidal (at least you would be here in Oklahoma).
quote: Tim Reed
EZ-PASS only, left lanes. Tickets, right lanes
Yeah. Automated toll tags are pretty nice...if you're on a turnpike where your pass works. In Oklahoma, the OTA has its Pike Pass system that works statewide. And you really need one if you're going to drive on the turnpikes here since many toll booths are automated/unmanned. The new H.E. Bailey Turnpike spur off I-44 going to Norman has no attendants at its toll booths. You can pay in exact change or hit the Pike Pass lanes. Each exact change lane has a bill changer. But what if you have pesky bills that won't work or the changer has no more change? You're stuck.
My Oklahoma Pike Pass looks kind of like a bar of soap on my windshield. And it's about as good as that if I'm driving on toll roads in Texas. Talk about a growing clusterf**k in the making. Texas has at least two or three different toll tag systems for highways in Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin. Why not have at least a statewide standard? With more states having to build toll roads for highway expansion, the need really exists for a national standard of pass that works on any turnpike. I'd like to be able to use the same pass on the Kansas Turnpike if I drive to Wichita, or the Creek Turnpike in Tulsa, or the Bush Tollway north of Dallas. Who wants to keep multiple turnpike tags or worry about having the right amount of change on hand when driving? I'm sure truckers would love a national standard for 'pike passes.
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William Hooper
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1879
From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-17-2004 02:20 AM
quote: Tim Reed
This is what causes a lot of traffic tie-ups and accidents; people who think they're the only ones on the road, and give no thought or consideration to what's behind them.
And that's not just observational. All traffic studies point out that it's not so much that speed that is a causal factor in crashes, it's that differences in speed that are dangerous. In countries where speed limits are *much* higher, accidents are fewer, because flow is managed by enforcing laws that traffic is to stay to one side except when overtaking. You can see these accidents starting to occur on US interstates when 2 vehicles, both traveling 5 or 10 mph below the limit, are side by side on a two-lane & traffic is bunching up behind them. One dog running out, spilled coffee, fooling with the radio, etc., & it's mass destruction. Those are the SCARIEST traffic situations to be in.
quote: Tim Reed
Here's something else that causes me to lay on my air horn... people who DON'T READ SIGNS
I always thought they just COULDN'T. You can tell all the people on their way to remedial reading classes, because they aren't able to read the signs that say KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS, SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT, MAINTAIN SPEED, etc. It wouldn't be very charitable to assume that they're just inconsiderate, oblivious, & wilfully dangerous.
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