Plate 9.6

An advantage of the U.S. federal system. Individual states can adopt laws that initially seem crazy to other states, but that eventually prove sensible and become adopted by all of the states -- such as California’s becoming the first state to permit right turns on a red light after stop.

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. . . .while I was growing up in the northeastern U.S. state of Massachusetts, the first Californian whom I met explained to me that California had become the only U.S state to adopt a law permitting cars to make right turns on a red light at an intersection, after coming to a full stop. In the U.S. such traffic laws are the prerogatives of individual American states, not of the national government. To my fellow Massachusetts citizens of the early 1960s, and to the citizens of all other American states, that seemed an instantly dangerous ideas that only those crazy freaked out Californians would even dream of trying. But then California did try the experiment, it proved safe, other states were able to learn from California, and all states eventually adopted the same law ~ Page 337

5 years ago. Edited 5 years ago.

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