Camera Partnership try to silence broadcasterThe Chairman of The Kent & Medway Camera Partnership has hit back at the person who caught him speeding. Two police officers turned up at the home of the broadcaster and issued him...
Left on Red is all very well, but ...
* Visibility at a whole load of light in the UK is not good enough to allow this safely (unlike the majority of lights in the US where visibility round the corner is normally good, due to wide pavements etc) * Who is going to accept the inevitable increase in accidents with other vehicles and pedestrians while people get used to this new concept? * We have far fewer STOP signs than in the US, so the concept of coming to a complete halt before pulling off (which is the rule for right on red in the US) is rather more alien, and so would be flouted with the inevitable safety implications
If done, it would have to be done specifically by inclusion (i.e. a sign on the lights where you are ALLOWED to do it, rather than those where you can't), so it could be piloted.
While on the subject, why not an amber flashing that they have elsewhere, which means you can go, but you don't have right of way over any other traffic or pedestrians. Good for low traffic times of day (I've seen junctions in the US where, at night, the major road gets a green and the minor road a flashing amber).
As for rephasing, it's not bloody rocket science. It amazes me how many lights are poorly phased, or insist on going through their whole sequence even when there's nobody waiting at most of the lights within a set.
