Extended yellow lights may decrease violations, but if you want to decrease accidents, the best way is to delay the green lights.
“Extended yellow lights may decrease violations, but if you want to decrease accidents, the best way is to delay the green lights.”
Agree, after a light turns red, wait about 2 seconds before the other light turns green. This would help prevent accidents for drivers that enter the intersection after the light turns red, and also for dealing with the legitimate residual traffic that entered when the light was green or yellow, but had to wait to make a left turn.
“Extended yellow lights may decrease violations, but if you want to decrease accidents, the best way is to delay the green lights.”
They did that here in Tucson. Three to five second delays on traffic in all directions in an already super congested city with it’s only freeway closed. But we get the cameras anyway.