Jamming on the brakes at the instant the timing-jiggered-short light goes yellow is causing (the yellow light is supposed to be on for AT LEAST 1 second for every 8mph of the speed limit)
(a) an inordinate number of rear-enders.
(b)These lights were ALL installed without appropriate Environmental Impact Studies. The short stops cause air pollution, pavement degradation and
(c) the normal flow of traffic is disrupted, causing stop-and-go jams, where previously there was some attempt at maintaining an orderly traffic flow.
(d) with obamagas at $3.50+ a gallon, the fuel wasted at 5-minute lights is enormous, and itself causes more local pollution.
(e)The Timed Traffic Light is apparently beyond the ability of many local officials.
Please bear in mind that I report this from Florida, where the natives are called "Floridiots" and not without good reason. The most common yellow light killer: a tattooed, heavily siliconed, texting, somewhat pixilated "single Mom" on or from her way to "work" at the "Gentleman's Club." Think Casey Anthony on home-made steroids. Buy a local deputy a drink and ask him (IMHO the best kind of field research.)
Before allowing this anti-constitutional and dangerous "safety" travesty into your area, make sure that your county commissioners and county sheriff are at least Junior High Graduates. Also campaign for round-abouts instead of needless traffic lights. These will have the immediate effect of removing bad drivers from the gene pool with extreme prejudice.
Call it "collateral damage."
“heriff are at least Junior High Graduates. Also campaign for round-abouts instead of needless traffic lights. These will have the immediate effect of removing bad drivers from the gene pool with extreme prejudice.”
I was with you until you mentioned ROUNDABOUTS. They are now being constructed in rural Wisconsin, sometimes several in a row. The Euroweenies who push these monstrosities do not countenance their effect on wide loads and farm machinery. This ain’t London. Worse, the promoters maintain that fatalities are reduced, even while increasing the raw number of accidents substantially, doing NOTHING for the gene pool.