Things that annoy me

[Larro Darro]

I hate it when tomato worms don't know the difference between peppers and tomatoes. And it rains for 14 days straight so all the dust washes off your plants. Look at the amount of poop around the little Habanero plant. We never did find a worm on it.

 

[txdon]

Bird, MPgerma lives in Houston did the research. - here is the answer...

"I have already researched this earlier this year.

Texas criminal code states it is against the law to ENTER an intersection after the light turns red. You will get a ticket for running a red light if you ENTER the intersection after the light turns red. You should not get a ticket if you are already in the intersection.

However, in Houston, we have a city ordinance that concerns red light cameras. It states that if you are IN an intersection when the light turns red, you will get a violation from the City of Houston and will need to pay a fine. It is different from the criminal code. There are still people arguing this difference with the city council so we will have to see if it changes. Many people have gotten "tickets" from city of houston for being stuck in traffic IN the intersection when it turned red and the flash on the red light camera went off. I know because it happened to me and thats when I started all my research.

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/houston/530247-texas-traffic-laws-waiting-intersection-turn-4.html#ixzz2Yks7quAa"

Above is what I was taught, however the cameras do add another problem.

 

[Midniteoyl]

I don't know who did your driver training, but that's sure new to me. I'll guarantee you that you could have just gotten annoyed with my mother because she'd never pull into the intersection to wait to turn left because when she took her first exam for her first driver's license (Ardmore, OK, in 1945), she did that and of course the light turned red while she was still in the intersection and the examiner told her to just go back to the station; automatic failure of the exam for a traffic violation, he counted being in the intersection when the light turned red as running a red light. She had to go take the test again on another day, and she never forgot that.:laughing:

But if I can SEE a break in the traffic coming, I'll pull into the intersection, but if I can't see such a break coming, well, you could just get annoyed with me, too, because I don't intend to still be in the intersection when the light turns red.

And I guess you do know that having your wheels turned to the left while you wait is dangerous because if you get rear ended it'll knock you into the oncoming traffic.

The examiner was wrong. If your front wheels are past the white line when the light turns red, you did not run it. But now, you must clear the intersection..

 

[Midniteoyl]

Bird, MPgerma lives in Houston did the research. - here is the answer...

"I have already researched this earlier this year.

Texas criminal code states it is against the law to ENTER an intersection after the light turns red. You will get a ticket for running a red light if you ENTER the intersection after the light turns red. You should not get a ticket if you are already in the intersection.

However, in Houston, we have a city ordinance that concerns red light cameras. It states that if you are IN an intersection when the light turns red, you will get a violation from the City of Houston and will need to pay a fine. It is different from the criminal code. There are still people arguing this difference with the city council so we will have to see if it changes. Many people have gotten "tickets" from city of houston for being stuck in traffic IN the intersection when it turned red and the flash on the red light camera went off. I know because it happened to me and thats when I started all my research.

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/houston/530247-texas-traffic-laws-waiting-intersection-turn-4.html#ixzz2Yks7quAa"

Above is what I was taught, however the cameras do add another problem.

Also look at how long the yellow is. Most states have a law saying how long the yellow should be. When the cameras go in, the company shortens that time. If you can prove it, ticket gets thrown out. Several have been busted already with some cities taking the cameras out altogether because it costs so much in court fees they were actually losing money.

 

[mikehaugen]

As long as we are on the traffic discussion I hate it when people pull over to the side when there is an emergency vehicle coming on the other side of a four lane divided highway. In fact I was told by a traffic school teacher (yes the kind you go to after you get a ticket) that you only need to YIELD to emergency vehicles... if you are not in the way, even on a two lane road, you do not need to pull over- though in this case I usually do.

Probably my biggest annoyance however is loud eaters... especially ones that chew with their mouth open.

 

[Midniteoyl]

I move over 'cause the other idiot in the way just might not pull over.. This way the emergency vehicle has plenty of room..

 

[mikehaugen]

I'm talking about an open state highway with nobody in sight except me and the guy in front of me or a divided highway with a curbed divider where the ambulance would have to jump the boulevard for you to be in his way or on an open open interstate with eighty feet and a ditch between you and oncoming traffic.

 

[aczlan]

I'm talking about an open state highway with nobody in sight except me and the guy in front of me or a divided highway with a curbed divider where the ambulance would have to jump the boulevard for you to be in his way or on an open open interstate with eighty feet and a ditch between you and oncoming traffic.

From what I have read, in that case (like with a schoolbus in the same situation) you only have to stop if the ambulance is on your side of the highway.

Aaron Z

 

[Bird]

I figured I was going to start something.:laughing:

TXDon, I never issued a red light traffic citation to anyone who entered an intersection before the light turned red, and don't know of any other officers who did. And I don't know what's being done with the red light cameras now-a-days, but many years ago, Dallas did have officers in the downtown area issue citations to drivers who got caught in the intersection when the light turned red. In other words, they entered the intersection without having room to clear the intersection before the light changed, so they then had the traffic blocked that had a green light. I don't remember for sure, but I think instead of a red light violation, the citations were for "obstructing traffic."

Midniteoyl,

The examiner was wrong. If your front wheels are past the white line when the light turns red, you did not run it. But now, you must clear the intersection.

I agree, but since I don't know what the law was in Oklahoma in 1945 I can't say whether he was right or wrong.

Most states have a law saying how long the yellow should be.

And the higher the speed limit on that street, the longer the light is supposed to stay yellow.

When the cameras go in, the company shortens that time.

Never heard of that, so I wouldn't know, but I guess we all know that the red light cameras are controversial.

mikehaugen,

I was told by a traffic school teacher (yes the kind you go to after you get a ticket) that you only need to YIELD to emergency vehicles... if you are not in the way, even on a two lane road, you do not need to pull over

I don't know about the law in your state, but in Texas

Sec. 545.156. VEHICLE APPROACHED BY AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. (a) On the immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle using audible and visual signals that meet the requirements of Sections 547.305 and 547.702, or of a police vehicle lawfully using only an audible signal, an operator, unless otherwise directed by a police officer, shall:

(1) yield the right-of-way;

(2) immediately drive to a position parallel to and as close as possible to the right-hand edge or curb of the roadway clear of any intersection; and

(3) stop and remain standing until the authorized emergency vehicle has passed.

 

[sixdogs]

Bird--my thinking over the years is that those who can, do and those who can't, teach. Probably could start a fight with that, and it certainly doesn't apply in all cases but I think it makes a lot of sense.