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What’s the fine for blocking the box?
What’s the fine for blocking the box?
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The correct thing to do in this situation is to pull up to the left of the green car (suburu?) thus moving yourself mostly out of the intersection. Then wait patiently for the light at the next block to change and pull back into the travel lane behind the other cars. I wouldn’t necessarily expect the cop to be so courteous as to execute this maneuver, however.
I used to cross that intersection once a week to take my daughter to a dance class at Mark Morris. It was taking our lives into our hands, so we dropped the class. The traffic cops that are usually there make a point of steering traffic INTO pedestrians, gesturing angrily at those who dare to cross with the walk signal. It is a highly, highly dangerous intersection.
Cops flippantly disregard traffic laws all the time. Then they whine that they get no respect.
Yeah, gotta agree with the sentiments of guest at 5:17 (if not entirely with the tone). I find nearly every “Closing Bell” feature petty and annoying.
Yeah because you never misjudged it and ended up blocking the box yourself, and because everyone who does ALWAYS gets a ticket! And because you do your job perfectly too!
Shit happens – for all you know it was a mistake or something else was going on – instead of picking on civil servants who have to protect your overpriced Brownstone in the middle of the ghetto, try giving them some of the slack you reserve for yourself in that same situation.
I nearly got hit at that corner this AM.
There was an accident though I could see NO damage to the SUV that “might” have been rearended by a ConEd truck. The SUV was parked over the crosswalk. The driver was at first pacing around in the little area left of the crosswalk between her SUV and the ConEd truck. She end up sitting in the passenger seat with the door open talking into her cell phone. A cop was standing on the curb talking into a cell. The ConEd guy was screaming into his cell.
There was a traffic cop in the intersection (Atlantic and 4th). The walk sign was blinking and I squeezed by passed the SUV driver, then standing in my way, and got honked at by a surge of oncoming traffic from Atlantic and Flatbush that the traffic cop must have been indicating to advance. I looked up at the light (it was red for the drivers about to plow into me), ran to the curb and stood there ASTOUNDED at the mass of traffic and mess at that intersection all around.
And they think they can ADD more traffic?! Insane!
The traffic cop made all sorts of hand gestures and faces at me. I did lots back trying, at 100 feet distance and over the noise to indicate that my walk sign had been blinking and I thought it was okay and so wha’ already, enough.
Hhhh…ah Brooklyn…
4:56 Pizza?
“i hate the fucking pigs”
I love my Park Slope Moms!
i hate the fucking pigs. try manuevering around their own goddam cars near the police station on bergen and sixth with a baby carriage. they park right on the ramp to the sidewalk and so you have to walk onto the ave. to get across.
they’re fucking animals who wouldn’t think of doing the same thing in their staten island neighborhoods to their own piglets.
donuts?