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I mean pregnant women get priority seats on busses. It would make sense they get priority lanes in traffic too. I dont see a big deal. I'm just glad they have HOV lanes at all.
Meanwhile in Georgia, they got rid of their HOV and bus lanes and made them into toll lanes for rich people.
It's how they always go. Just look at how Miami turned out. Fucking $20 to be in stop and go traffic for ten miles.
What is it if you dont pay?
It requires the fast/e/sunshine pass that is radio monitored. I'm sure some people do it in other people's cars that don't have it, but it's a fairly hefty ticket if I remember correctly.
No, I mean what if you dont use the toll lane. What if you take the proletariat roads instead?
Hours of your life and fractions of your soul.
Honestly though, when the prices get significantly high, both sets of lanes are backed up to hell and it doesn't really matter.
I did logistics to and from MIA in my late teens and early twenties. And the proletariat route was often (when I say often, I mean 95%) many times faster when it was >$16. I witnessed idiots running over the little white poles that separate the lanes, to join us.
I don't know what's wrong with Texas. It's like NO ONE can't do shiut and they just let any dumb ass pass any laws they come up with on their christian fanatism cause I bet non of it is even endorced by God/Jesus or higher beings. It's like Ted Cruz and Abbot can pass any laws they want regardless of what the constituents wants and really wish. We're against Muslims and jihads stuff about how they treat women and their clothes they need to wear but this same texas republican fanatics are pushing in the exact same direction with all their supposedly religious laws, which are just plain bullshit. Just think about a law Ted Cruz passed not too long ago about restricting dildos to 6 per person, like why do you even need to do that with what purpose and how does that even help texas at all?
It's always weird when we actually get good legislation passed because of this.
This isn't just a horrifically-misleading headline, it's straight-up false.
The bill originally was written to directly establish personhood of a fetus, but Democrats got an amendment in that keeps the "pregnant mothers get to use the carpool lane" part, without the language that establishes personhood for a fetus. They literally called the Republicans' bluff on "this bill is about supporting mothers", by making that specific. This caused one Republican to retract his vote, because the amendment "guts the pro-life purpose of the bill".
Thank you for putting my mind at ease after reading the heinously misleading title of the OP.
Don't you know people who use the Internet can't be bothered to read the article!
Some of us are completely illiterate!
I don't know what you said, but I like the way you said it.
How do cops determine if a woman is pregnant or beer bellied though? They make em pee on a stick they carry with the breathalyzer?
The pregnancy registry of course.
It's still a stupid waste of everyone's time.
IMHO, HOV lanes were originally intended to encourage carpooling and getting cars off the road. Since nobody under 16 could even potentially be (legally) driving on their own, they shouldn't count as occupants at all.
Two+ adults required.
This makes sense, but how about the soccer moms carrying 6 kids. Would rather them make it about seats filled by breathing humans.
This be clear, what if that soccer mom were carpooling for the team/neighborhood? We’re not just talking about someone with a lot of kids.
They are pay-to-win where I am, can be just you in your 2014 v10 expedition as long as you pay the $5.50 a mile toll.
This is sexist against fathers and therefore unconstitutional.
Bill text:
Sec. 545.429. USE OF HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANE BY CERTAIN OPERATORS. (a) Subject to Subsection (b), a female operator of a motor vehicle who is pregnant or is a parent or legal guardian of another person is entitled to use any high occupancy vehicle lane in this state regardless of the number of occupants in the motor vehicle.
Texas Constitution:
ARTICLE 1. BILL OF RIGHTS
Sec. 3a. EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW. Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex, race, color, creed, or national origin. This amendment is self-operative.
What this would actually do (once the test case ruled that it would have to apply to fathers too) is destroy HOV lanes entirely by making everybody able to use them, since the state would have the burden of proof to show that the driver has never had children.
destroy HOV lanes entirely by making everybody able to use them
In Texas, God intended for you to use the most gas possible, and sharing a ride is communism.
Came here to say this too. This just makes HOV pointless.
In my experience , they're pretty much already useless anyway.
They're not managed at all anyway. This just paves the way towards pulling up the little bumpy things that divide the HOV from the rest of the road.
But they won't let fetuses count toward your tax exemptions.
Yet....
How is everyone involved in this not mortally fucking embarrassed over even discussing this stupidity with any seriousness?
Fair game to collect life insurance on miscarriages now right? My wife has one every month or so, and why yes, I am the beneficiary.
Im a bit shocked they are ok with the "Creature attached to the womb" driving.
4 seat cars can now advertise as seating 36... 4 octomoms
Ma'am I need you to step out for a field pregnancy test please. STOP RESISTING PEE ON THE STICK
Why help them establish that fetus=person?
(Edit: Having seen the other comments including the language of the bill, it makes more sense.)
They didn't. They made mothers able to use HOV lanes without a second occupant, blocking the GOP's attempts to use HOV lanes to normalize fetal personhood.
That’s what I tell my GF; these measures aren’t about taking care of the fetus. They’re about establishing law supporting unborn ‘rights’ vs the mother’s. Requiring child support for carrying mothers? Just another law designed to legitimize unborn/fetal personhood. Sure, it sounds good on paper, but let’s instead work on protecting a woman’s medical privacy rights and rights to abortion. Then if we want to develop additional rights around that supporting HOV lanes, medical treatment, pregnancy leave, and child support? Sure, let’s do it.
HB 2462 passed on Saturday by a vote of 130-2, with all Democrats present voting yes. Notably, Cain voted against it and said in a statement explaining his vote that he did so because Rep. Hinojosa’s amendment “guts the pro-life purpose of the bill.” He wrote, “As originally written, the bill recognized that the unborn child was an additional occupant. The amendment totally disregards this principle.” This should really give the fetal personhood game away: He only cared about defining an “unborn child” as a person.
I want my state, a smaller blue state, to start using this same logic. Namely, I think we should, using donor cells and cloning techniques, arrange to have 100 million frozen embryos sitting in freezers in the state capital. Logically, if embryos are people, then those 100 million embryos should count as citizens for the sake of Congressional representation and federal funding.
Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.
Play stupid games, forfeit your country’s democracy.
Well this is fucking stupid.