Despite the official, legalistic misgivings of some print media, no one is likely to go uninformed in St. Petersburg because they can’t buy a Sunday newspaper on U.S. 19. Via its new ordinance that bans transactions along — and amid — busy streets, the city of St. Petersburg is acknowledging the obvious: There’s an inherent public-safety conflict when you combine solicitors, busy intersections and traffic lights that go from red to green.