Hairdoo
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Reged: 06/11/11
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Loc: Haymarket, VA, USA
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I don't know if anyone else heard about this - but I found it interesting:
A new Virginia law that took effect July 1st 2011 allows drivers of motorcycles and mopeds to treat red lights as stop signs provided they come to a complete stop for two minutes and determine it's safe to proceed. Bicycles will also be held to this new law — a moot point, since bicycles don't care about traffic laws to begin with.
The only time you'll be able to use this law seems to be late at night on back roads. If you're on a main road, you most likely won't have to wait a full two minutes, and during the day it probably won't be "safe to proceed." And red-light cameras don't care if you've stopped for two minutes, so you'll have to just wait.
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Jayhawk
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Loc: Olathe, Kansas
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Kansas enacted a similar law earlier this year, I believe ours is if "after a reasonable time" the light doesn't change. Kind of the way they write laws around here; don't know if it still is but when I learned to drive the legal speed limit was what is "prudent" for the conditions - which means legally you could be given a ticket even if under the posted speed limit.
Missouri's takes effect 8/28, motorcyclists and cyclists, the article I read said it was also "after a reasonable time".
I don't know what state I was reading about that said "after two cycles" (of the light changing) -but if you are not tripping the activator that doesn't make any sense. Politicians, laws, making sense - what am I thinking?
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eighteen98
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Reged: 01/11/05
Posts: 57
Loc: Fishersville, VA. U.S.A.
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Now it looks like Illinois is on board - LINK
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locopony
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Loc: Texas, Houston
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Good we need one in Texas.
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roadworthy
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Loc: St Louis MO
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I like Missouri's "reasonable time" wording, it let's me put one foot down, look left and right, and go 
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Whitt
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Loc: Aiken, SC
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we have had this for a couple of years in South Carolina. I used it for the first time this past Sunday.
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pipedr
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Reged: 09/17/06
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Quote:
Kansas enacted a similar law earlier this year,
Kansas has a traffic light?
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roadworthy
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Reged: 08/29/07
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Loc: St Louis MO
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Quote:
Quote:
Kansas enacted a similar law earlier this year,
Kansas has a traffic light?
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FriarJohn
"Lighten up, Francis."
Reged: 01/11/05
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Loc: East Helena, Montana
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They have exactly 1. Unlike Wyoming...
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locopony
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Reged: 09/01/10
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Loc: Texas, Houston
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You can see the traffic light in Kansas at 10 or 20 miles away.
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Gregu710
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Reged: 01/11/05
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Loc: Longmont, Colorado
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You can see the traffic light in Kansas at 10 or 20 miles away.
Ummm, I've seen the "hill country" of Texas, and well, you can see a traffic light 10-20 miles away there too!!
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