TJIC has discussed the recent accident involving two teenagers. To summarize:
- students are drunk
- students are driving 70-80 mph
- students are driving on a narrow residential street where speed limit is probably 30 mph, maybe less
- students crash, and a passenger dies
As a former resident of Arlington, I will go on record saying that there are not many streets in the town where going 80 won’t result in a crash even if the driver is stone sober.
So, lesson from this tragedy? (And I do consider it a tragedy).
Don’t drink and drive? No…
Don’t speed? No…
The previously mentioned problems are too difficult to solve. The “Community” can not stop people from making tragic mistakes so…
Let’s form a working group and redesign the road so that drunk people going 80 can’t crash! Or at least can’t go 80.
Warning: ex-hippies at work.
To quote Otter from Animal House:
I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.
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I propose they just re-zone the area as “Nerf Houses Only”.
I think residents should be allowed to erect massive steel poles (heh heh- he said “massive pole”) on the perimeters of their property, buried down 12 feet, and sticking up 3 or 4. Then, planters should be placed on top, filled with greenery- thereby making Arlington carbon neutral.
Y”all are missing the point of ‘a bunch of ex–hippies at work’.
Clearly what is needed is driver re-education, with emphasis on Green driving habits. Then mandate that all cars will have a fee assessed to operate in the city limits. The larger the vehicle the higher the fee, with an additional fee added for vehicles that are scary urban assault vehicles and have pistol grips, large capacity magazines and bayonet lugs.
All fees collected will go into a fund used for driver re-education, surplus revenue used placed in the general fund to be used as the city sees fit.
Phased in over 18 months will be GPS units that will track your vehicles operating speed and asses a fine if you drive faster on average than posted speed limits or engage in wasteful driving habits – jack rabbit starts, etc. 24 months after all GPS units are installed governers will be placed on all vehicles that will utilize the GPS units to enforce posted speed limits