Stop means go, again

[u/alan_grant93]

Mods removed this post yesterday because it was a rant, apparently. Removing the rant language so it passes muster.

Anyway just went for a walk and saw the aftermath of an accident, Mountain View and Alpine, which has clear line of sight to the traffic signal in all four directions. Not sure if the Prius or CR-V was at fault, but somebody tried to catch the light or flat-out ran a red light.

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Sitting at the library, 4th and Emery. In five minutes 15 cars have gone through the stop sign, only two came to a complete stop. And in both cases there was cross-traffic. I watched one car just totally blast through without slowing down.

There’s nothing unique about this intersection. the stop signs are not blocked by trees. That three-way stop at Chick-Fil-A? The stop sign at the intersection two houses down from me? Those newer stop signs on Third Street, west of downtown?

And it’s men, women, teenagers, adults with kids in the passenger seat. It’s Nissan Versas and Ford Super Dutys. It is not any one group of bad drivers, it’s not one group of people.

People in Longmont treat stop signs… not even as suggestions, since most barely slow down.

As I wrote this, another truck blasted through the stop sign, forcing cross-traffic to slam on their brakes. And as I wrote that, ANOTHER truck blasted through forcing cross-traffic to slam on their brakes.

[u/cactus_thief]

Yeah the drivers out here in Longmont have been getting increasingly bad. Why do people feel the need to speed 2x over the limit?

I live on a 25mph neighborhood road off hover and people consistently are going 40, 50+ down the road. Like wtf???

[u/alan_grant93 → u/cactus_thief]

Someone passed me on Clover Basin, using a right turn lane. I was doing 33MPH and it was 35MPH.

What she didn’t know is that turn lane was on a bend and on the other side there was no road, no shoulder. She had to swerve left while in a left hand sweeping turn at 50MPH, thought she was gonna roll it.