{"id":3024,"date":"2009-09-14T16:16:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T23:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2009-09-14T16:16:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T23:16:17","slug":"burnt-out-tail-lights-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/14\/burnt-out-tail-lights-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnt Out Tail Lights in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mailed this letter to Caltrans today. We&#8217;ll see what happens<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.ca.gov\/mail.htm\">Caltrans District 4<\/a><br \/>\n111 Grand Ave<br \/>\nP.O. Box 23660<br \/>\nOakland, CA 94623-0660<\/p>\n<p>Lee Sonko<br \/>\n[address redacted]<br \/>\nSeptember 14, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Folks at Caltrans:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that many drivers in the Bay Area have tail lights that are burned out. Burnt out tail lights are an eyesore and illegal and it becomes a real safety concern when enough lights on a car are burnt out. At the same time, it&#8217;s very difficult for a driver to tell when a light is burnt out without periodically inspecting their vehicle. Whenever I come to a Stop sign next to someone with a burnt out tail light, they are always grateful for me rolling down my window and telling them, but there\u2019s no way a good Samaritan can reach even a small fraction of the drivers out there.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to suggest that Caltrans occasionally put notices on some of its electronic signs, the same signs that sometimes read &#8220;Click it or Ticket&#8221; etc. A good sign might be, &#8220;Today is a good day to check your tail lights.&#8221; or &#8220;Are your tail lights burned out?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>\nLee Sonko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mailed this letter to Caltrans today. We&#8217;ll see what happens Caltrans District 4 111 Grand Ave P.O. Box 23660 Oakland, CA 94623-0660 Lee Sonko [address redacted] September 14, 2009 Folks at Caltrans: I&#8217;ve noticed that many drivers in the Bay Area have tail lights that are burned out. Burnt out tail lights are an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}