Eastbound Arques at Wolfe has two "no turn on red" signs posted. Yesterday, again I saw another car come to the intersection and make a nice turn on red. There does not seem to be anything inherently unsafe about the intersection. However, this seems to be a common problem in the traffic scheme in Sunnyvale. Many rules and regulations are put in place, but not enforced.
Stop signs also are interesting. Approaching a busy street, the side street has a stop sign. However, cars will often either stop because the traffic forces them to, or they will do a rolling stop and move because things are clear. Why is it signed for the worse case?
And look at speed limits. The older driver seems to endure endless honking as they obey the law and drive slightly under the speed limit.
Why not set traffic regulations at the level that they are expected and then enforce them. (Would a city mandate that a building could not exceed 70 feet high, and then be happy when the average new building adhering to this regulation was only 75 feet?) The culture of excessive unenforced regulation also makes enforcement more difficult. If everybody is doing it, why is only the problem causer punished?
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