To cross the street in Lemoyne: look left, look right, look left again. Then, grab a flag and go. "Let me see if I understand this correctly," Bob's Bagels employee Rose Williams said. "You're supposed to take the flag, cross the street, [and deposit it in the opposite bin]?"
That's exactly right.
Inspired by a similar effort in Kirkland, Wash., the project's two-fold goal is to make pedestrians more visible and to remind drivers that pedestrians have the right of way, Lemoyne councilman John Judson said.
At a cost of less than $250, two of the borough's busiest intersections, Third and Market streets and 12th and Market streets, have been equipped with a few plastic bins filled with bright orange flags. A sign posted above each container reads: "Use Flags While Crossing."
A New Jersey state lawmaker wants to make it a crime for drivers to touch the screen of a satellite navigation device in a moving vehicle. Earlier this month, state Assemblyman L. Harvey Smith (D-Hudson) introduced legislation to expand the state's existing prohibition on using a cell phone behind the wheel.
"This bill would amend current law to also prohibit the manual operation of a global positioning system (GPS) device or similar navigation device by the operator of a moving motor vehicle," the official summary for A4064 explains. "The bill would allow the operator to use a voice-activated GPS device."
Motorists pulled over for the newly created offense would face a $100 fine without license points. A more broadly worded proposal to ban GPS operation while driving has been adopted in Spain's legislative body with penalties of 100 euros (US $140) with points.
While no vote has been taken on Smith's idea, such bill introductions can sometimes reflect a national trend. In 2005, a bill introduced in the New Jersey legislature to ban smoking in cars carrying children went nowhere. Now the idea is law in Arkansas, California, Louisiana and Maine with three dozen states considering adopting similar bans.
Airfoilsguy wrote:New Jersey to Consider Banning Drivers from Operating GPSA New Jersey state lawmaker wants to make it a crime for drivers to touch the screen of a satellite navigation device in a moving vehicle. Earlier this month, state Assemblyman L. Harvey Smith (D-Hudson) introduced legislation to expand the state's existing prohibition on using a cell phone behind the wheel.
"This bill would amend current law to also prohibit the manual operation of a global positioning system (GPS) device or similar navigation device by the operator of a moving motor vehicle," the official summary for A4064 explains. "The bill would allow the operator to use a voice-activated GPS device."
Motorists pulled over for the newly created offense would face a $100 fine without license points. A more broadly worded proposal to ban GPS operation while driving has been adopted in Spain's legislative body with penalties of 100 euros (US $140) with points.
While no vote has been taken on Smith's idea, such bill introductions can sometimes reflect a national trend. In 2005, a bill introduced in the New Jersey legislature to ban smoking in cars carrying children went nowhere. Now the idea is law in Arkansas, California, Louisiana and Maine with three dozen states considering adopting similar bans.
