Originally Posted by
sggoodri
I don't understand - if drivers are not stopping for the existing red lights in the presence of normal crossing pedestrian traffic, why should the introduction of additional green phases for other, more unusual traffic patterns improve their behavior?
Our red light cameras here in Cary ticket drivers for right-on-red without stop. This enforcement seems to be making a difference, but I think more is required.
There shouldn't be additional lights to "improve behaviour," the behaviour should not be as it is in the first place... the RTOR laws have turned turning motorists into scofflaws regarding the need to actually stop first, which has shifted the burden at stop lights to everyone else, to ensure that no motorist is coming their way. While children were always taught to look both ways, the bottom line is that far too many motorists fail to properly stop at a RTOR, and have in the extreme, taken their right turns as an undeniable benefit.