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I live in a city with a large number of elderly residents. I don't even remember the last time I saw a funeral procession here. But I did see one about four years ago on I-15 in North County, San Diego. I would agree with the person above that it probably would have caused chaos on the highway had all these people been trying to get to the cemetery on their own.
I live in a city with a large number of elderly residents. I don't even remember the last time I saw a funeral procession here. But I did see one about four years ago on I-15 in North County, San Diego. I would agree with the person above that it probably would have caused chaos on the highway had all these people been trying to get to the cemetery on their own.
Spend time in west Downtown. Every 45 min there is a precession running up Granada/main/Oracle to the cemetery on Ft. Lowell.
I agree they can be a pain. But far worse would be scores of people driving from a church or synagogue to a cemetery who don't know the area. That's asking for accidents.
I think the better practice would be to encourage common courtesy. Maybe breaking the procession into groups of no more than ten cars.
I still say 'GPS," especially if people would have the sense to do it via coordinates or "share my location," it works far better that way vs using a manually entered address. Still, I could reasonably consider what you're proposing. As long as they don't cause some awful mess that creates traffic jams, I'm OK with them.
A person I know was in a procession and got side struck their car , one a broken arm , and put out of work for a month ....... See the ideas is people need to know the funeral home are so they could avoid these areas of traffic , or have these funeral directors never go on these processions for cremations , and cut the cost for funeral without a trip to the cemetery to same day or meet people the next day at the cemetery who are interested ....... And long trip like five miles or so the next day cemetery meeting without processions ........ The only laws I know in the area where I live is that you cannot cut them off , but you can pass them in the double lane , see there is no rules like for police and emergency trucks where people have to pull over ..... still many people cannot turn left or right in the lane of the procession and get stuck is side streets
Seriously, how many funeral processions to you encounter? I can't even remember the last one I came across. I guess we should outlaw all oversized loads and slow-moving trucks too.
I saw the one for Justice Scalia in Texas on his way to the airport. It was small, but dignified. Most cars did not stop, but a few did...I thought that was respectful.
I am referring to either (a) them causing a massive traffic jam that makes for a big mess that eats up a lot of people's time or (b) a person being compelled to pull over upon spotting one even if it's not "upon" them yet.
I don't pull over either. I outrun them. If I'm behind them, I wait. People actually try to force people to pull over when it's behind them? I agree that that much is silly.
Honestly, I don't get the hate. Excluding something like a funeral for a fallen LEO or beloved community figure, they are usually short, even for someone that was popular and may have died before his days. Of the hundred or two hundred people that came to a relatives wake, and the 50 or so that came to the funeral mass, there wasn't much more than immediate family that came to the burial. Also, they tend not to go at rush hour.
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