Comments on: Increased Yellow Light Times Make Ticket Cameras Unnecessary

By: Phil Mckrackin

Phil Mckrackin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:18:27 +0000

I can’t believe how stupid these NMA members are who write these editorials. They want to anger the readers so that the reader supports thier fight. Lengthening the yellow light will not make the cameras unprofitable. there will still be people who proceed incorrectly into the intersection under the yellow light even if you make it longer. In fact the longer the time on the yellow light the bigger the dilema zone and the more people who will have to make a choice at the last second. which could result in more rear-end crashes. Instead of lengthening the yellow light time it properly to the approach speed limit and then add the 1 second you were going to add to the yellow to the opposing red so that your light is red 1 whole second before the opposing traffic turns from red to green. This would dramatically decrease the number of run through crashes at intersection because 1 traffic completely stops before the other is prompted to go. If this method would decrease the number of run through crashes, which it will, then it can also be used to combat red light cameras. This of course is only true if drivers proceed through the intersection correctly when prompted by the yellow light. the yellow light is NOT a hurry up the light is going to turn red signal and it has two basic messages. 1)if you have not entered the intersection do not enter the intersection once the yellow light has illuminated 2)If you are in the intersection when the yellow light illuminates proceed and clear the intersection for the opposing traffic. If you note these messages and drive according to those messages an increased red interval that delays the green for opposing traffic there will be no chance of getting a red light citation or being involved in a intersection crash. This method also allows the cameras to do what they were placed there for and catch only true red light running drivers and not the marginally close drivers who were in the dilema zone. Instead of blowing the issue out of proportion as the NMA and it’s editorial writers did maybe just some simple common sense can be used to make an undesirable situation disappear.

By: Steve Smith

Steve Smith — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:15:54 +0000

I’d like to add a comment about Dayton Ohio, They have also installed Camera’s and I believe that yellow light shortening caused my wife to recieve a ticket recently on Salem at Grand Ave. She swears that the light was yellow when she entered the intersection, the photo we recieved shows the light red in the middlke of the intersection, her travel speed was estimated at 32 miles per hour in a 35 MPH zone. There are camera’s in other places as well where the yellow light changes very rapidly to red. Shouldn’t there be an advocate for citizens against camera’s at intersections?

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