Caught my second DUI driver of the year!

[Tenman]

Apparently years ago, TxDOT went around the state, and started removing many of those memorials. People complained. It was explained that only those road side memorials that have resulted from a DWI crash, are protected by statute.

I bet there is some bitterness over that.

 

[Sierra1]

Oh yeah. That's how I learned about it. The news did a segment on the people that were pissed that their memorials had been removed. TxDOT explained the why. . . . but, it didn't make the people any happier.

What started it was that there were a bunch of highway easements that hadn't been mowed in a long time due to the memorials. So, when they checked, the non-DWI memorials were removed, the easements were mowed, and only the DWI memorials were replaced.

 

[Kyle_E]

Oh yeah. That's how I learned about it. The news did a segment on the people that were pissed that their memorials had been removed. TxDOT explained the why. . . . but, it didn't make the people any happier.

What started it was that there were a bunch of highway easements that hadn't been mowed in a long time due to the memorials. So, when they checked, the non-DWI memorials were removed, the easements were mowed, and only the DWI memorials were replaced.

I was just about to ask why remove them at all there can't be a great number of them to deal with. But that makes sense got to keep the shoulders clear. Sometimes when you see stuff like this it's dumb government for no reason.

 

[Sierra1]

. . . . there can't be a great number of them to deal with. But that makes sense got to keep the shoulders clear. . . .

This is Texas . . . . you'd be surprised. Texas didn't make open container illegal, until the Feds threatened to take away their highway funding. And, even then, you have to actually see someone in the act of drinking the beer, before you can issue them a citation. If a person is stopped. . . . over the age of 21. . . . and there's an open beer in the cupholder . . . . but, you didn't see any consumption. . . . no offence.

So, yeah, we have more than our share of roadside memorials.
The big reason for keeping the easements mowed, is that fire spreads slower in short grass. And, since people like to throw their lit cigarette butts out the window. . . . and we're usually in a drought during the summer months . . . . except for this year. I think I saw some moss starting to grow in my trees this year.

 

[Checkswrecks]

Roadside memorials really only seemed to become popular within the last 20? years or so and I have zero problem with them being removed. They may be a reminder for the family and friends for a short while but then invariably become a mind deadening string of trash over time. There are much better ways to remember the dead.

 

[Madhatter]

I like to think the memorials might cause some one to think for a change .... might save a life . around here the families seem to keep up with them , some have become somewhat elaborate . never hurts to remind that stupid hurts.

 

[PhilPhilippines]

Roadside memorials really only seemed to become popular within the last 20? years or so and I have zero problem with them being removed. They may be a reminder for the family and friends for a short while but then invariably become a mind deadening string of trash over time. There are much better ways to remember the dead.

Ouija board road markings at a crossroads?

 

[Wallkeeper]

So the "someone opening a door" bit is the first argument I hear as every time against lane splitting, Frankly in 53 years riding in California and probably 10s of thousands of actual lane splitting miles in that time, I've never seen it happen. None of my riding friends here have ever had it happen to them either. As most lane splitting is done on the freeways, there are no pedestrian crossings there.

Here is an example of my typical commute before I transitioned to home based work. No doors, no pedestrians, complete with accident scene at the end.

https://youtu.be/EBc2ChJ3kas

This was on my previous ST1300.

The lane splitters that scare me are the yahoos splitting the HOV and #1 lane on the 405 with the traffic moving at 70+ MPH....it was even worse when they still had the Bots Dots on the lane markers.....eeeee Just to add seasoning to the mix, the idiots I would see doing it were generally not wearing helmets, gloves etc....

 

[Wallkeeper]

Sadly that just happened in my old home town.....Darwin 1, Squid 0

"A motorcyclist is dead after a crash with an SUV on Jefferson Road at Route 390 in the town of Henrietta. It happened around 9 p.m. Thursday when deputies say the motorcyclist, a 25-year-old man, was speeding while heading east on Jefferson when he popped a wheelie and crashed into the SUV, which was turning onto the southbound ramp of 390."

Deputies ID man killed in crash on Jefferson Road near 390

A motorcyclist is dead after a crash with an SUV on Jefferson Road at Route 390 in the town of Henrietta.

www.whec.com

Darwin and Newton ALWAYS win....they have better odds going for them than a Vegas Casino

 

[Sierra1]

. . . . the idiots I would see doing it were generally not wearing helmets, gloves etc....

Self correcting. . . .

 

[Madhatter]

moma crying

 

[PhilPhilippines]

Self correcting. . . .

Generally what I see on YouTubby makes me think "what if xyz or abc happens..." and then it does. It is almost like an anticipation thing...