I have a nephew checking that particular part of I-40 and whether there was indeed a fair warning about the drop in speed from 55 to 45 and if it is a construction zone (no workers present that day). He thinks they go after out-of-state vehicles in particular because they’ll pay up, not being willing or financially able to return; when he showed up in court to fight a ticket the officer was a no show, case dismissed. So how bad can they screw me from afar if i don’t pay up? I welcome any and all responses or comments.

“Enforcement efforts are likely to reduce violations occurring primarily in the first few seconds of red and, therefore, should significantly reduce left-turn-opposed crashes. In an indirect manner, these efforts should also reduce some right-angle crashes by encouraging driver compliance with the signal.”

What I was saying was that no matter what yellow light timing you have if there is no enforcement at the lights at all there will be people speeding up when they see a yellow light and will enter the intersection when it is red to save them time. That is why the red light cameras were put into place in the first place. You get all people to stop doing that and you will not need any enforcement. In fact there would be no tickets given even if there was enforcement. If you have not seen people speed up on a yellow to try to make it through then you must be blind.

Many intersection already have your mutual red light you were recommending.

For your hypothetical ‘true idiot’, an increased, or added, mutual red light eliminates that problem-even if you have to take a half to whole second off the increased yellow light.

“Or how about the fact that lengthened yellows reduces accidents and does away with Scameras income ??”

Once the true idiot realizes that yellow lights are longer they will start to enter an intersection later than ever thus you will still have a red light running problem. Think for yourself if you can, what would you do if the yellow light increased a couple of seconds? You and most here would compensate and enter an intersection later than ever because you and others here would not wait for up to a minute for the other lane of traffic to turn yellow and then wait another 7 or 8 seconds or whatever you come up with or would you try to skip through on a yellow light? Pretty obvious to me. A yellow light should be timed to allow a safe stop and not add another 3 or 4 seconds or cut it a second or two either.

From what your comments state you would prefer people to drive with drugs in there cars and in their bodies. Why should the police possibly want to save your ass because as you say all should be able to drive impaired so why are police out there? Why should they want to have people stop at stop signs or drive at a safe speed or not drive dunk or on drugs? Why would they want to save your ass and eveyone else?