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> Careful about relying on that, as while state law may not require you add safety equipment such as seat belts, county or city law might. We're talking Arizon
by cr0sh 8y ago
> Careful about relying on that, as while state law may not require you add safety equipment such as seat belts, county or city law might.
We're talking Arizona. Here, you can get away with just about anything, and unless it's blatant, nobody really cares. Sometimes not even then.
- kevinmchugh 8y agoI recently was talking about protected left-hand turn patterns and remembered a trip to Arizona in the early 2000s. I remember my parents being initially cautious but quickly thrilled about protected left-hand turns coming after yellow lights and before red lights. It seems like it ought to reduce congestion and accidents. So I started looking into it, and I found that that isn't even an all-Arizona thing. Municipalities decide their own light patterns. Some places even change the pattern from morning to night coincide with commutes. I never did figure out if there were any safety or congestion benefits. I'm still shocked that that level of localism doesn't cause chaos.
- UncleEntity 8y agoMostly just Scottsdale does that and it does cause a bit of confusion when people don't expect it and are playing with their phones but overall it's better since people don't clog up the left turn signal running the red.