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Get a move on windshield tinting legislation!
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Posted on Nov 01 2004
Literally, for the life of me, I do not understand how an entire CNMI Legislature cannot deal with a simple piece of legislation that would save lives in the Commonwealth by eliminating windshield tint in the front windshields of automobiles and trucks.
Figuratively, there’s nothing more transparent about them, and the people they must be listening to, because this legislation that has been endorsed by the Department of Public Safety, the Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Saipan Garment Manufacturers Association, the Northern Marianas College, the Saipan Chamber of Commerce, the Saipan Contractors Association, federal safety officials and all the other Members of the Northern Marianas Alliance for Safety and Health is still sitting around—after all the “transparency” about the cooling effects, needed statistics to prove beyond a doubt that less tint actually saves lives (let alone more kills), rewriting the legislation, of course, and, yes, Committee reports.
This is an island of pedestrians, where the government can’t even afford to properly install pedestrian crosswalks, lighting and sidewalks. Therefore, it makes no sense whatsoever to allow for dark tinted windshields to make it even harder for drivers to see the people that either come to visit or work here.
What’s not transparent is that the largest purchaser of tinted windshields in fleet vehicles is the government, itself.
Printed in an October 26 newspaper article was “Ban on tinted auto windows pushed” from Majuro, where included in the same proposal was a requirement that taxi drivers would also have to show proof that they do not have tuberculosis and other communicable diseases.
What are we, advanced, or just terminally unique?
Richard A. Pierce
Co-Chairman
Northern Marianas Alliance for Safety and Health
