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SEPTA buses drive straight into traffic eastbound on Ridge Ave against the light. There are traffic lights here specifically to meter traffic and allow buses an opportunity to pull onto Ridge yet bus drivers routinely ignore the lights, stopping both lanes of traffic. Traffic heading east will have a green light yet the bus drivers expect cars to yield to buses out of their own sense of self-preservation. This causes backups during rush hour and is even more of a problem when there is snow or ice on the ground and traffic with the right of way cannot stop for the bus running the red light.
7 Comentários
Steve (Visitante)
Mml (Visitante)
First Citizen (Utilizador Registado)
mml (Visitante)
First Citizen (Utilizador Registado)
The signal does work and I often witness it work, yet there are far too many occasions when bus drivers are too impatient to wait for the light, sometimes merely causing an inconvenience to dozens of other people or worse, creating dangerous situations for moving traffic. You say yourself that the light goes on for much longer than necessary for any pedestrian to get across, which is also plenty of time for a bus to pull out of the driveway.
Drivers may only make a right on red when they YIELD to oncoming traffic. My entire complaint is when they do not yield to moving traffic, which is entirely illegal and unsafe to everyone involved.
This issue is not a platform for debate on the merits of bus vs. car travel. It is to address routine and flagrant traffic and safety violations committed by the employees of a single entity, for the benefit of everyone walking, biking, or driving on this stretch of road. By all means, please open a separate issue to address your other concerns about traffic in the area; it is most certainly a mess for a variety of other reasons as well.
Fechado First Citizen (Utilizador Registado)
mbsst26 (Visitante)