Sad news. P-32 died trying to cross Interstate 5
Aug 14, 2015 9:59:45 GMT -8
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Post by davesenesac on Aug 14, 2015 9:59:45 GMT -8
TNW >>>"Lots of wildlife is killed in Yellowstone National Park each year by motorists who neglect to adhere to the 45 mph speed limit. It is a big problem... I persistently drive 45 in the Park, and just as persistently 5 cars pile up on my rear bumper between most any of regular pullouts."
As someone that has been occasionally driving through Yosemite on SR120 for years, I see the same situation as Travis. A lot of drivers speeding despite lots of speed limit signs, signs that warn speeding has been killing wildlife, pleas in current season park information that speeding is killing animals handed out at entrance stations, and modest numbers of park police patrolling that highway. And for many speeders it matters not as to time of day even though those people realize at dawn and dusk many creatures are moving about and it is more difficult to see animals on dim roadways. In other words they are impatient, inconsiderate, and selfish. As with some other policy issues many in the public ignore, the simple solution is for the park to get tougher with enforcement and ignore all those in the public that will predictably whine and complain after they get fined. People with an attitude react to pain not to empty threats. For some reason for decades, those doing enforcement in Yosemite have been under obvious pressure from management to just warn most violators as though psychologists have convinced some making decisions that is a better way to get people to change habits and promote good will between the park and the public.
Although that works to some extent for some things, in our current society and culture that has not been effective on roadways. Hence in our urban areas there is rampant cheating in commuter lanes as soon as enforcement stops on any sections of such freeways. Additionally when I'm driving at the usual considerate 45 mph speed limit on a 2-lane park highways with limited areas other vehicles can pass, I do not want other impatient drivers continually tail gating behind me as though that is acceptable behavior and I'm acting like some kind of annoying slug.
David Senesac
As someone that has been occasionally driving through Yosemite on SR120 for years, I see the same situation as Travis. A lot of drivers speeding despite lots of speed limit signs, signs that warn speeding has been killing wildlife, pleas in current season park information that speeding is killing animals handed out at entrance stations, and modest numbers of park police patrolling that highway. And for many speeders it matters not as to time of day even though those people realize at dawn and dusk many creatures are moving about and it is more difficult to see animals on dim roadways. In other words they are impatient, inconsiderate, and selfish. As with some other policy issues many in the public ignore, the simple solution is for the park to get tougher with enforcement and ignore all those in the public that will predictably whine and complain after they get fined. People with an attitude react to pain not to empty threats. For some reason for decades, those doing enforcement in Yosemite have been under obvious pressure from management to just warn most violators as though psychologists have convinced some making decisions that is a better way to get people to change habits and promote good will between the park and the public.
Although that works to some extent for some things, in our current society and culture that has not been effective on roadways. Hence in our urban areas there is rampant cheating in commuter lanes as soon as enforcement stops on any sections of such freeways. Additionally when I'm driving at the usual considerate 45 mph speed limit on a 2-lane park highways with limited areas other vehicles can pass, I do not want other impatient drivers continually tail gating behind me as though that is acceptable behavior and I'm acting like some kind of annoying slug.
David Senesac