Recent comments in /f/RhodeIsland

BernedTendies t1_jdnghlz wrote

lol idk why you’re arguing completely against headlights. Maybe it can be both?! I certainly know an illegal bike without legal lights didn’t help the situation that played out the other night. I think we can agree on that.

Edit: obviously these two dead people were being reckless idiots. Saying the bike isn’t the issue is also flatly wrong

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wormholeweapons t1_jdng615 wrote

Driving your street legal bike at night with the lights off. Or if they aren’t working at all. Is the same effect. Same thing can happen with a car. THAT is the reckless part.

Off road vehicles have headlights too. They don’t have turn signals. But that’s not the issue.

RECKLESSNESS is the root cause here.

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Beezlegrunk t1_jdnda8v wrote

I’ve never lived in a city that claimed to restrict overnight parking as Providence does, but I’ve lived in a bunch of cities that actually give tickets for (non-meter) parking violations, which PVD rarely seems to do.

If you park on the street-cleaning side of the street in other cities when you’re not supposed to, parking enforcement officers drive a block ahead of the street sweepers and will happily ticket you.

By contrast, the parking enforcement here (like so much else) is mostly performative, such that when someone actually does get a citation it’s a genuine surprise.

The capricious enforcement leads to cynicism and contempt for rules in general, which seeps into civic culture and people’s attitudes toward any kind of personal responsibility.

Fair but consistent enforcement is better than absent or sporadic enforcement …

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howsyourlife t1_jdncev7 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in What do you do? by Loveroffinerthings

Just curious man, are these faux wealthy people you know born-and-raised in RI or from other parts of the country? The reason I ask is because outside of a few pockets in RI (Newport, EG, etc), you usually don't see that kind of flashiness. People from Long Island, Dallas, and California on the other hand...

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listen_youse t1_jdn6dx5 wrote

When you could not be an outright "Sundown Town" anymore, the overnight parking ban was a next best thing. If you do not have the means to secure off street parking, we do not want you around.

Its most zealous supporters continue to be NIMBYs who find it a convenient weapon against neighbors in multifamily houses.

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PuzzleheadedActive68 t1_jdn0uzs wrote

There must be quite a few people who work for the DMV on here because I even got down voted for posting the link to "Know your Rights".

People are ridiculous. If anyone here thinks all the money the DMV collects from us is going back into RI you are a living in a fantasy land. Look at the amount of tax we have to pay!! Buying the car there is tax. Then we have to pay tax to the town or cities we live in, yearly. Gas tax. Tax on mataining the vehicle. I know someone who had an expired license and couldn't get into the dmv due to covid restrictions. They let their brother borrow their car to go to work in Newport, because his car was getting fixed. She was hit with a fine and would need to go to court to prove that she wasn't driving the car. Our insurance rates are some of the highest in the country.

I am pretty liberal but the fact that cameras are set up to send out tickets is against our rights as an American Citizen.

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