Posted on 06/12/2006 9:27:32 AM PDT by beyond the sea
Yes, sir!
Yeah, didn't he say something like, ride when you retire?
In many Pittsburgh area intersections there are not seperate lanes for those who are turning left. (The topography does not allow for adding lanes as we might desire to.) Therefore a person turning left at an intersection holds up all traffic coming from that direction.
So it is customary if there are cars stopped at a red light for the person travelling straight ahead to wave an oncoming left turner through when the light changes to green. This allows traffic to flow in both directions. It's really common courtesy.
Now, this is so common that people turning left will often assume the courtesy has been granted and will go ahead and make the left immediately after the light changes to green. This can startle the out--of-towner, but it really is not a hazard. If you haven't even begun to move your car and the guy ahead of you jumps out and makes his left, it's not like you're going to step on the gas and hit him.
These rules apply when cars are stopped at a red light. Obviously if traffic is flowing through an intersection no one is going to jump out and try to make a left. What they will do is creep into the intersection so that when the light changes to red, they are then free to make their turn, since they are effectively blocking the traffic from flowing in the other direction.
SD
Exactly what I thought... my mind went right back to Jay Williams....
There's a reason why I call them donorcycles...
Interestingly, Jay Williams has a workout for the New Jersey Nets scheduled for this Saturday (the 17th) - he also had one for the Raptors on the 1st. Don't count him out yet, but if he ever suits up again, it will be a miracle...
And I stop for ambulances. I think they probably don't notice, people aren't always thinking with their entire brain while driving, which is the cause of most accidents.
On the freeways I understand what's going on, I do it my self on occasion (especially when I had to drive on the freeway to get to work). Sometimes driving on the freeway people get into a "passing mode", where every vehicle in front of you exists just to be passed, get to doing some pretty crazy stuff when the passing mode hits.
that sounds similar to Mechanicsburg, too. It does take some getting used to.
I feel bad for that woman. I hope she is okay, too. She must feel awful.
It works both ways. For every bewildered out-of-towner who has had someone pull the Pittsburgh left in front of him, there is the stranger utterly amazed that another driver insisted that he turn left in front of him even though he didn't have the right of way.
SD
Roethlisberger's injuries only on face, will play in opener
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The injuries to quarterback Ben Roethlisberger were confined to his face and the Steelers are confident he should heal and be ready to play in the season opener Sept. 7 against the Miami Dolphins, sources told the Post-Gazette today.
Roethlisberger has a broken jaw, a broken nose and some injuries to his teeth but otherwise came through his motorcycle accident on Monday with nothing else but some scrapes and bruises. Published reports that detailed injuries to his knees and shoulders are untrue, sources said.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06164/697867-100.stm
Depends on how broken the jaw was. When Jeremy Roenick took an elbow to the chin against the glass in the Stanley Cup playoffs he spent close to 12 hours in surgery getting his jaw reconstructed (or as the surgeon said, remade from fragments), the hit was in game 1 or 2 and he played in game 7. It's all speculation, we'll find out in a couple weeks how Roethlisberger will do and how long he'll be out.
I must be old.
On my driver's test back in the 70s, one of the things you absolutely HAD to do was pull completely off the road whenever an ambulance or any other emergency vehicle was coming.
Just a couple of days ago, I watched 3 cars in front of an ambulance simply refuse to yield in any way whatsoever.
I checked my rearview mirror to make sure no one was behind me, pulled off the road far enough to allow him to pass but still blocking any oncoming traffic and motioned the ambulance driver to pass them using my lane.
He waved a 'thanks' and sped away.
I wondered who was in that ambulance and did the delay due to rude, oblivious drivers affect the outcome of their emergency....or even their life?
I bet you're one of those people who lets people cross in front of you in parking lots, too aren't you?
I was heading into Border's Books last night and the same elderly couple that I always seeing blasting 70mph up my mountain in their pearl-white Caddy nearly hit me in the crosswalk.
They *appeared* to be slowing down to let me cross but then barely missed me by a hair when they didn't stop.
All I got was a haughty "how *dare* you walk where I want to drive?" look.
Common, decent courtesy is either dead or dying.
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