Gothamist: Hark, The Noise Will Ring (But Just a Little Softer Before the Complaints Come)

iceberg

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:28:21 -0500

peakguy, While I'm also bothered by constant honking I experience living a house away from the corner and its traffic light, what irks me more are the incosiderate aholes who pull their car across the intersection, with nary more than their front bumper actually passing the next crosswalk, leaving the box blocked to traffic coming down my block either trying crossing the avenue or trying to make a turn. My gut feeling is that if that people learned to stop trying to squeeze past the intersection, and instead patiently wait for the road ahead to clear enough to pull up their car, the honking as we know it would cease. OTOH, I think it would help greatly if the traffic lights were given a European treatment, where in some countries, the green light is preceded by a yellow light, letting drivers know, so they can quicker react to the green.

DaveHimself

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:33:19 -0500

2000 DOLLAR DECIBLE METER!? I truly hope someone hit the zero key one too many times. Youd have to hollow out the best existing decible meter and fill it with molten gold to get its value up to 2 THOUSAND dollars.

iceberg

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:24:06 -0500

What I want police vehicles to be equiped with is an automated pothole reporter. The basic function is to marry a GPS coordinate with a gyrometer-reading everytime the vehicle takes a perilous dip. The data collected can then be merged into the DOT's pothole repair system, so that nobody has to go thru the trouble of reporting everytime a new hole opens. There should also be a manual button to take a GPS snapshot for times when the officers chose to steer around the pothole.

peakguy

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:28:14 -0500

I didn't see much in their about car horns. We need a real public awareness campaign to stop willy-nilly honking - blaring horns should just be for accident prevention, not "I'm pissed off because the car in front of me didn't floor the gas before the light turned green"