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Don’t confuse Freeman with facts when all he cares about is his feelings.
The city should tear all the recently installed roundabouts in his district out and let his constituents go back to being stuck in impossible traffic jams each and every evening during rush hour when they try to travel east/west.
“Quell the number of increasing pedestrian deaths”
How many deaths each year?
How many caused by turn on red?
Let’s get the facts before you start changing laws.
This is a good question – how many are caused by turn on red, versus people turning when the light is green. When the light is red, drivers tend to slow to a near stop to make sure nobody is driving the other direction, so they are more likely to see a pedestrian. It is when cars have a green light and are at a higher speed turning that they tend to pay less attention to pedestrians. It is also when the light is green and pedestrians have the crosswalk signal that pedestrians are also less likely to be watching for cars.
Using the same logic, I wonder if the numbers would actually show that cars should be banned from turning right on green rather than red….
How many is not enough?
It is really nice that the state legislature has solved the brain drain, horrible road paving (aka road herpes), gun violence, corporate corruption, and set the state to being a leader in ecological-economics, that they can focus on something like public safety in a square mile of the state where most drivers DON’T pay attention to what’s going on around them..
Hogsett and his council cronies love to spend thousands, if not millions, of dollars on legal exercises that any poly sci freshman knows they will lose. But it makes them feel like they are doing something, and feelings appear to be all that matters.
Lawyers working on behalf of the City seem to disagree with you. I have more faith in them than any poly sci major. Sen Freeman only passes laws restricting what Indianapolis can do based on his desire to “own the libs”. If you’re going to criticize anyone for pushing legislation based on feelings, Freeman should be your target.
The correct scholarly go-to in this case would be LAW, not PoliSci.
Freeman went off about blanket bans.
The city of Indianapolis listened. What’s being implemented definitely meets the spirit of what he was against – the city of Indianapolis isn’t doing blanket bans, they’re using data and taking public feedback before implementing any changes.
Unfortunately, he’s acting out of anger because he didn’t understand that he was passing a poorly written law in a hurry that didn’t go into effect until July 1st … and he can’t stand being embarrassed, so he will come along next session and be spiteful. He got out-lawyered, which apparently he can’t handle.
Freeman’s got a certain type of energy, the same type that encourages some men to buy ridiculously expensive sports cars …
On the positive side, this could become a HUGE revenue stream to combat the pothole disaster of downtown Indy. Once visitors get tickets for unnecessary laws, they’ll find other places to spend money.
They need to implement it county wide or not at all, to subjective!
Doesn’t Aaron Freeman have better things to do with his time than try and stop pedestrian deaths? How about actually representing your constituents in Indy and pass legislation for fair road funding.
In a word, no. He’s a blow hard with no substance.
There are already a few intersections in Indy with No Right Turn on Red prohibitions. There is one at northbound Michigan Rd to eastbound 86th St. This one is poorly signed and numerous individuals get ticketed there annually because the signs are too far out of the line of sight for drivers of cars.