Posted on 09/08/2012 9:53:42 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
The Rochester, NY, Democrat & Chronicle reports that city of Rochester employees have committed at least 119 red light violations while driving city vehicles.
But, unlike John Q Public, the violators have their fines waived.
Upstate bump
I’m a County employee, I run red lights all the time, sometimes right in front of police cars with no consequence. I do it in a snowplow or sander making the roads safe for the citizens. I don’t see how library or building services folks have an excuse though.
One of our dump truck drivers ran a red light and was ticketed, he was given a written warning, if he did it a second time 3 days off without pay, 3rd strike and your out(fired). BTW, he also paid the ticket.
Yes, there are times like yours were it is proper. I’d also give other emergency services a pass.
I live one house down from an intersection with a 4-way stop.
Virtually nobody but me stops completely, including the police, who cruise through even more blatantly than the general public - ‘cause they’re special. They’re also exempt from the ridiculously low speed limits the rest of us have to abide by or else.
I’ve often been close to being rear-ended many times because I’m also one of the rare people who stops behind the white line, rather than stopping halfway into the crosswalk.
Depends what city you work for. I got pegged by a red light camera while driving a non-emergency fire department vehicle and got the whole nine yards.
Some pigs are more equal than others
Why would your job require you to perform your duties in an unsafe manner?
Because if you stop in a snowplow it leaves a huge mound of snow because you lose the forward momentum required to “peel” the snow and chute it off the roadway. The sander requires a certain RPM for the hydraulic PTO to cast sand over the entire lane. We try to time the lights as we approach but sometimes lady luck doesn’t smile and if there are no cars waiting to go through we proceed with caution. Bear in mind, usually this is done in the middle of the night with little or no traffic.
So tell me, when you’re routinely running red lights in the snow plow, if a family broadsided you killing them all, are the tax payers liable?
BTW, I'm trying to figure out how it's thrown, "Off the highway" when you're running red lights through an intersection?
Going through an intersection, wouldn't the snow be just thrown into the intersection?
I guess I shouldn’t have blocked an intersection a couple years ago backsanding to a fire truck that slid off the road responding to a medical call and couldn’t move?
“Ive often been close to being rear-ended many times because Im also one of the rare people who stops behind the white line, rather than stopping halfway into the crosswalk.”
Now you’ve touched a nerve. I drive a big truck and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to make a left turn onto a street but can’t, because someone in a car is sitting 8 feet past the line. Do these people ever wonder why those lines are painted on the road?
Instead of evading the questions, feel free to answer the questions in #11 & #12.
If a bear sh*ts in the woods, would the Pope hear it?
Just a wild guess, but that’s probably why he evaded the questions.
Interesting how the thread devolved into a discussion of snow plow do’s and dont’s.
In other news, how about that Cornell grad Sandra Fluke?
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