Touchy subject but…
29 Jul 2009 3 Comments
Did anyone else see the Pro-Lifers on Connecticut Avenue, Maryland side of Chevy Chase Circle, yesterday during rush hour?
I haven’t been able to find out much information on this protest, primarily why they chose this location. I’m surprised WaPo doesn’t have an article on this but then again it’s a touchy subject and many tend to ignore the issue alltogether. Note: I’m not stating my opinion on this topic either. I will keep my asshole opinion to myself.
This location is on a part of Connecticut Avenue that squeezes three lanes in where it should just be two. One wrong move and somebody gets hit (experienced that a few years ago). Then with the protesters out there traffic became chaotic, “Honk for life”. I was surprised I didn’t hear anyone honking I felt like just ducking and get past it all as fast as I could. A friend, who also drove through this, said it was crazy loud and a lot of honking when she passed.
The pictures they had of dead aborted babies were HUGE and became overwhelming since there were so many between the Circle and Bradley Blvd. By the time I got past the chaos it definitely had an affect on me and I had to turn the air up. I’m sure it didn’t help that there was a tractor trailer next to me and I thought for sure he would rip me to shreds since he was so close.
See how close the truck is.
Someone was bound to finally develop this…
29 Jul 2009 Leave a Comment
in Technology, WaPo
… A speed camera alert for GPS.
A local man, Joseph Scott, developed a program to work with his GPS. There’s a lot of debate going on about the usefulness and reliability of this program. A Software Salesman, that uses this program, says it helps to refocus him when he might be getting distracted on the road doing his sales calls. Sounds like he does a lot while driving such as; phone calls, emails and sipping coffee to name a few.
Some law enforcement are all for the program to slow drivers down and not always where there are speed cameras since it’s the subscribers that send in the locations and not from a reliable database that tracks these locations. In Virginia, where there are no speed cameras, drivers are alerted to police that are set up with radar guns. This sounds like it could be a crap shoot if the data isn’t up-to-date but it would get more drivers to slow down even if there are no radar encampments.
I have to agree that a big con of the program is, “an option that warns drivers of places where police operate checkpoints to find drunk drivers. On PhantomAlert’s Web site, the DUI checkpoint locations are marked with a tiny martini-glass icon.” I’m all for the newest thing in fuzz busters but not to protect the drunk drivers.
The entire article can be read here.
