why should they “find” revenue? They should have been more frugal with their spending in the first place. Why should the tax payer pay even more in bs fines, and fees to live here because State employees are wasteful asshats. (not directed at you, it’s a general statement).
i dont think its about power. its more about makign things streamlined. it doesnt mean fed is taking over, i meant to say that theres going to be the same rules everywhere. example: right turn on red in albany: ok. right turn on red in nyc: NOT ok. we know this because we live here. some ppl dont know about the NYC rules, but say you go to Ohio? North Carolina? Florida? Texas? Who knows? Youre not really going to look up, read and memorize every single traffic law, are you? But if theyre all the same everywhere, you know that you can or cannot do this in that situation, but its ok in this situation. its all the same everywhere. kinda like street lights. red is stop, green is go. thats the same in all the states, that makes things easier. but imagine if every state had their own colors, and the lights would be all different in the number of lights and the meanings would be all different. it’d be impossible to drive around for people. making all the street signs the same also makes things easier. especially for when youre out of area. it makes thinsgs hard when youre used to seeing green signs with white letters, but then going to a diff state and them being brown and yellow. you instinctively look for green and white, and dont see it. you end up driving slow and slowing down others, causing traffic delays. now if all the signs were the same all around, u know that green/white is automatically a street sign. your eye darts to that and u see the street name instead of trying to figure out where the hell the sign is and what color it is. stuff like that, ya know? i really wish it was uniform. i LOVED florida signs. theyre all BIG, clearly visible, theyre all the same, the major intersections are HUGE signs, so you know its a major road. Theres building numbers on them. If youre at an intersection and the left side sign has numbers like 3500 and down(for example) and the right side has 3501 and up. this makes things SOOOOOO much better. if youre looking for building 3645, you know to go right. Some signs are even LIT! Totally loved driving in florida. You can actually tell where the hell you are. Here? Half the signs are behind poles or in the goddamn leafy tree and tiny. Another things i noticed about the US being different from the rest of the wold is that a lot of the building dont have a building number clearly displayed. As if everyone knows every building already. The numbers that are ON building are all different and most of them tiny. Some are even written out in words like “thirty two”. Personally, i dont like that. If im in a rush, i dont have time to be reading freakking crusrive written out house numbers with 30 angry motorists behind me honking cuz im slowing them down. just put a big 32 on the side with a dark background and white letters on each side of the building so everyone can see, no matter where theyre coming from.
It needs to stay at the State level for many reasons. Each state is different in terms of demographics, climate, location, industry, so there are different V&T laws to fit this model. So in places some laws don’t make sense. You do not want the federal government to dish out more laws for the stats to follow. We are already getting to this point, we do not need a stronger federal government, we need a weaker one.
As far as NYC, they would have a sign stating no right turn on red for out-of-towners to follow.
As far as street signs, it’s done by each respective municipality. For instance, the town near me uses the brown and yellow signs, whereas mine uses green and white.