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To: mcmudd who wrote (15884)	3/24/2007 2:27:20 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 220096

"how we ever managed in the old days?" No castration! Go to Brazil the old days are the re still. There is a vital energy pulsating in the country. The balls are still there. I just checked. Mine are still here thanks, God!

To: mcmudd who wrote (15884)	3/24/2007 6:13:05 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 220096

NZ has that "stop the traffic" ideology too: < Over time they have evolved to the current situation where you cannot turn unless the filter shows green. You can see ahead for a quarter mile, and even though no one is coming from the opposite direction, you are not allowed to proceed. MADDENING!> Traffic lights should be replaced with roundabouts wherever possible, including buying land in the area to make the intersection bigger. In all other places, red traffic lights should be treated as stop signs. You stop and if your planned route is clear, you can go. You give way to other traffic. It works at stop signs and give ways signs, and we those everywhere. When roads are quiet, such as at night, traffic lights should be left on green phase on the main road and the minor road should have a continuous red acting as a stop sign. Clearways should be extended to all day in many places so that one or five parked cars don't block a lane while 5,000 vehicles an hour are stuck behind them in large traffic jams. It is absurd to use major roads as parking lots for private benefit of a tiny number of people, blocking many thousands from moving. The average intelligence in NZ is only about IQ 100, so I can see how figuring stuff like that out is hard work. Also, there is the old story of concentrated benefits and diffuse costs = the local business and person parking will squeal like pigs if they don't get their way, while those in the traffic jams each get a relatively small suffering. There should also be tolls collected during peak hours to cut the number of vehicles on the road, allocate priority, and to fund concentrated transport such as cycle ways, walkways, buses, trains, mini buses, electronic management systems, new roads, roundabouts. Mqurice