[AnAmericanMother]

Entertaining -- for everybody but the victims.

Another problem is more rear-end collisions, as drivers in front slam on the brakes to avoid going through on a yellow (which is permissible).

The city fathers attempt to justify this by saying, "Well, rear end collisions are safer than T-bones." As though drivers were totally interchangeable and fungible, and a rear end collision is a T-bone prevented (not!). Doesn't help the guy whose car is totalled when the engine compartment collapses (or the guy whose nose is broken by the airbag.)

[JTN]

The city fathers attempt to justify this by saying, "Well, rear end collisions are safer than T-bones."

They may be right, but there is one inconvenient fact that they leave out - that they can prevent both by lengthening yellow lights. Of course, that doesn't bring in revenue.

[LIConFem]

"...as drivers in front slam on the brakes to avoid going through on a yellow (which is permissible)."

There are red-light cameras on Canal St. here in downtown NY. About a week ago, I was in a cab heading to work from Penn Station. The driver went through a YELLOW light at Broadway, and triggered the camera (two flashes, one in front and one behind). I'd bet my life that the light had not yet turned red.