46 traffic lights over 6 miles in Central Park

Newsflash: RS is last human being in NY to realize that the City is strapped for cash and for years has been trying to raise revenue by overly enforcing petty traffic laws.

Have you missed the fact that, for example, there are squadrons of traffic enforcement cops out there furiously writing tickets, even when the law has not yet been broken? (This takes place, by the way, as other cops stand idly by while car after car whizzes through a red light at most intersections, almost clipping pedestrians; if they were smart, they would go for those big-ticket -- pun intended -- offenders.)

clearly a case of too much cream cheese clogging his/her/its system.

Hey, MidtownerVirgin and columbiacounty are finally getting along. Congratulations Midtowner, you are now part of the in crowd.

>while car after car whizzes through a red light at most intersections, almost clipping pedestrians

Really, you see pedestrians almost getting clipped? Because I've never seen it, though I don't spend much time in the U.N. area of midtown east with all of the foreigners.

> if they were smart, they would go for those big-ticket -- pun intended -- offenders

Hey, a funny (if you tell us)

could it be? i agree with a comment from redbaiter? i'll try anything once

police are supposed to effect quality of life and security for honest, working, tax-paying citizens

the city's finances are such that our police are now arbitrary revenue collectors who, in the process of collecting revenue, effect a lower quality of life, not only for the citizen being fined, but for those stuck in the traffic jam behind the police engaged in this ridiculous activity

a better fix for finances would be to lay off these police and revert to reasonable enforcement of laws affecting honest, working, tax-paying citizens

Wtushy!

Wtushy, what about retired non-working NYers? What about NYers on the dole? Don't they have rights? What about NYers on the lam? If the police can't stop and frisk and check the database when running routine stops or simply acting on suspicion [e.g. of being a certain race in the wrong area, or similar], then we might not catch someone who is wanted.

Think Wtushy, think harder before you agree with Riversider.

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