PRAAMMMMMPP!

Okay; I’ve left the Union-meeting

It’s about 10 p.m., so here I am motoring blithely out E. Main St. in Rochester.
Our union-hall, actually the Laborer’s union-hall, is in a more-or-less urban area of Rochester, not far from the mainline railroad-tracks of CSX — so if a train passes, you can hear it from the parking-lot.
Main St. goes almost all the way across Rochester; W. Main becomes E. Main at the river, and goes all the way across the eastern side of Rochester; it only goes part-way across the western side, ending at Bull’s Head (“Bull-hyeed”) where it splits into West Ave. and Chili Ave. (“CHEYE-leye;” not like the south American country), which both go west from Bull-hyeed.
I used to drive the Main-St. bus route; and it was a worker. Lotsa passengers (every stop), and never any layover-time. I had to blast through the layovers and change the destination-sign on-the-fly.
So I go down E. Main, past the infamous White-Tower of my former employer (Regional Transit Service), and approach the intersection with Culver Road.
Culver road is a major north-south road in eastern Rochester, that crosses seven bus-routes — one even uses part of it; up north.
So the intersection of E. Main and Culver Road is a major intersection, complete with traffic-lights and individually signaled turn-lanes.
I’m on E. Main and will turn south (right) onto Culver Road. I have a red-light in my face.
Culver has green lights, and a Saturn sedan is in the right-most southbound lane signaling to turn right (west) onto E. Main (toward downtown).
A dark-green Ford Explorer is fast approaching the Saturn. Good golly Miss Molly, am I about the witness a rear-end collision? That Explorer is really moving!
Suddenly the Explorer slams on its brakes and hits the horn. PRAAMMMMMPP!
No contact, and the Saturn drives slowly around the corner.
Finally getting off the horn, the Explorer-driver floors it, and steams across the intersection.
Sorry guys; too dark. Couldn’t see if it had a Dubya-sticker.

“Union” is Local 282 of the Amalgamated Transit Union; the employees’ union at Regional Transit Service, the transit-bus operator in Rochester, N.Y., where I drove transit bus for 16&1/2 years. (See above.)

RE: “at the river.........” —The large Genesee River flows from south to north through downtown Rochester.

“Regional Transit Service’s” main facility was at 1372 E. Main.

“Dubya-sticker” is a Bush-Cheney 2004 bumper-sticker. All insane traffic-moves seem to involve Bush-supporters. They seem to think they have the right.