High Point, New Jersey |
 While I was driving on US interstate highway 84, I was interested to see that rest areas beside the highway were also called text stops. An article published on the PCWorld website in 2013 explains why: “The state of New York is taking a page from airports across the nation and installing ‘Text Stops’ – spots for drivers to pull over and read or send text messages – throughout the state, in an effort to curb an epidemic of drivers who continue to text behind the wheel. … Additional road signs with messages like ‘It can wait, Text Stop in 1 mile,’ have been erected along the roadways surrounding the new Texting Zones to encourage drivers to use them.” Let’s hope they save lives. |