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Oh man, if you think honking in SF is bad, in NYC it’s a damn 24 hour chorus. I mean even at 4 am I have heard honking (park ave is NOT congested then so I can’

Oh man, if you think honking in SF is bad, in NYC it’s a damn 24 hour chorus. I mean even at 4 am I have heard honking (park ave is NOT congested then so I can’t even imagine the need to honk then)

komali2 7y ago
I one time watched a disabled kids school bus stop and kneel and deploy its ramp for a kid in a wheelchair to get on, on a residential street in Brooklyn. Throughout the WHOLE process, a car behind the bus was slamming the horn. It was like 2 minutes of beeping lol.
gowld 7y ago
NYC has signs up promoting the expensive fine for non-emergency honking, which is illegal, but there's no enforcement.
- cletus 7y ago
  This is NYC in general. It has a police force rivaling the armies of some countries and the lowest crime in decades so I'm not sure what they're doing now but whatever it is, it isn't traffic enforcement. Running red lights ("but it was amber 15 seconds ago!"), honking at cars in front who are waiting on pedestrians who have right of way, block intersections preventing cross traffic (every Saturday afternoon you see dumbasses do this and traffic going to the Holland Tunnel backed up to Midtown), turning at red lights (illegal in the five boroughs), deciding to enter an intersection to block an emergency vehicle that has its sirens going, not getting out of the way of emergency vehicles and so on. In nine years living in NYC I think I've seen a driver pulled by the NYPD exactly twice. And what does the state legislature do? It tries to pass laws to make it illegal to detain taxi drivers who kill pedestrians [1] (luckily vetoed by the Governor). [1]: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2015/06/23/senate-passes-bill-to-prevent-arrests-of-bus-and-taxi-drivers-who-kill/ https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2015/06/23/senate-passes-bill-to...

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Oh man, if you think honking in SF is bad, in NYC it’s a damn 24 hour chorus. I mean even at 4 am I have heard honking (park ave is NOT congested then so I can’

by darkwizard42 7y ago

komali2 7y ago
I one time watched a disabled kids school bus stop and kneel and deploy its ramp for a kid in a wheelchair to get on, on a residential street in Brooklyn. Throughout the WHOLE process, a car behind the bus was slamming the horn. It was like 2 minutes of beeping lol.
gowld 7y ago
NYC has signs up promoting the expensive fine for non-emergency honking, which is illegal, but there's no enforcement.
- cletus 7y ago
  This is NYC in general. It has a police force rivaling the armies of some countries and the lowest crime in decades so I'm not sure what they're doing now but whatever it is, it isn't traffic enforcement. Running red lights ("but it was amber 15 seconds ago!"), honking at cars in front who are waiting on pedestrians who have right of way, block intersections preventing cross traffic (every Saturday afternoon you see dumbasses do this and traffic going to the Holland Tunnel backed up to Midtown), turning at red lights (illegal in the five boroughs), deciding to enter an intersection to block an emergency vehicle that has its sirens going, not getting out of the way of emergency vehicles and so on. In nine years living in NYC I think I've seen a driver pulled by the NYPD exactly twice. And what does the state legislature do? It tries to pass laws to make it illegal to detain taxi drivers who kill pedestrians [1] (luckily vetoed by the Governor). [1]: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2015/06/23/senate-passes-bill-to-prevent-arrests-of-bus-and-taxi-drivers-who-kill/ https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2015/06/23/senate-passes-bill-to...