In article > , Deadrat wrote:

>> There was nothing emotional about it.

> Sorry. I thought that was you who ran off in a snit.

You're making the summary dismissal of the technical aspects and rather
insistant on it.... It is pointless to continue under those conditions,
alternatively I could say you're having an emotional snit and just
refusing to discuss the topic....

> Not much when it comes to traffic control devices. Not much in
> misc.legal.

The only group on this cross post I read is rec.autos.driving.

>> Why should I continue attempting to discuss the technical aspects at
>> all with someone who has no interest in them?
>
> Because. this. isn't. about. technical. aspects. of. traffic control.

It is part of rec.autos.driving. Are you not watching where you're cross
posting?

>> I should just entertain
>> you with a pointless usenet tit for tat on politics?
>
> Because. this. is. misc.legal. Not. misc.techie.traffic-control.

This is rec.autos.driving for me.

> It's both. It's not either/or. That's part of your lack of success --
> you think the decisions can be settled by an appeal to technical data and
> only by technical data.

It's an engineering question, not an emotional political one. It's the
politics that has it all screwed up.