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    Posted: 11 Apr 2020 at 8:12am
Originally posted by lostagain

The 80 limit on I-80 is new, but copies UT, 80 all the way from just west of Salt Lake to the NV state line.  Personally, I find driving that fast very uncomfortable in a Mazda cx5.  There is no way I'm driving that speed with a trailer.  I'll keep it around 60, but a 20 mph differential is just plain scary.  Far better to take US 50 to head east.  It's slower and much more interesting.  Great places to camp along the way.

My experience with the rules of the road in the original 13 colonies is that they have no sense of organization.  In NJ I had to look up some driving rules and found them mixed in with laws about utterly unrelated topics, such as a contract rule and murder laws, and there were all kinds of rules about horse drawn sleighs.  In the entire time I lived in NJ, I never saw a horse drawn sleigh on a road.  

The problem with taking secondary highways in places with lots of at grade intersections and driveways is that greatly increases the frequency of speed differentials as slow traffic enters and exits the roadway. That's not a problem in rural NV 'cause hardly anyone lives out there but it is in the rural east. The interstates are much safer, even if you're travelling at 65 rather than 50. 

We probablycan't use NJ as an example of a state with sensible laws. Its the only state where you can't pump your own gas. Somehow or other the rest of the country can get that done safely, but once inside the boundaries of NJ a motorist stupidity field engages and folks can't put gas in their tanks without killing themselves. Then there are all those jug handle turns...

OTOH, I don't think that the original 13 colonies have any monopoly on regulatory peculiarities. The 55 truck and towing limit in CA is one example. Another in your state is rather interesting. I gather that Elko never bothered to rescind a law dating from the 1918 flu epidemic requiring folks to wear masks at all times while on the streets. So perhaps eventually everything comes back into fashion, even masks in Elko and sleighs in NJ. LOL
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Oregon doesn't allow self service except at night in rural areas.  Currently, with the pandemic, the fire marshal has allowed a temporary lifting of the rule.  Some towns in the N.E. also prohibit self service.  I have to say, when I lived in NJ and it was cold and stormy, pulling into a gas station and being to say "fill'er up!" was pretty nice.  And the prices there were far lower than adjoining states, though they've since raised the taxes.

As for Elko, as with all towns and cities in NV, we are very forward looking and leaders of the civilized world.  Elko is an example.  The mask ordinance can now be implemented again without the need to hold a city council session, thus maintaining social distancing, which is pretty easy to do in rural NV.  The truly sad thing about social distancing and closure of non-essential businesses, not only is our sewing business completely shut down, a far older business is also shut down, depriving some rural counties of much needed tax revenue. Unhappy
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I stand corrected re OR. I had read that it had rescinded its gas pumping restriction but I see that it was only partial. Someone must have done a study that found rural night owls have a higher IQ than other Oregonians. 

I would think an attorney would not favor arbitrary decisions by law enforcement as to which statutes to enforce and which to ignore, as Elko would be doing without city council direction. So much for the even handed application of criminal justice. Tongue

I'm not touching the shutdown of the oldest profession in NV other than to say that it might be argued that it is an essential industry in this period of isolation and high stress. 
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There are many statutes that are to be used only in unique or special circumstances.  Even lawyers and judges have the capacity, at least on occasion, to use common sense.  The same is true for most police, though some become a little confused at times.  

The foresightful town council of Elko used this common sense and now have the perfect enforcement mechanism for the publics's safety.  As I said, it is just one of many examples of our forward thinking in NV.

As for necessities, worker safety comes first, even if there is an increased perception of need due to isolation and high stress.   Adequate protection of the "independent contractors" would make the utilization of their services rather pointless.  What is terribly unfair, however, is that these hard working people are ineligible for unemployment benefits unlike those who work in cabarets providing only temptations.  A solution is being considered.
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