Back in May I posted about how I wanted to be able to turn left at red light like the seppos can turn right at a red light. It will speed traffic up at junctions for a start. Thus I am now bought off by John Redwood's report totally after he proposed it as one of those little things that we could do to make traffic flow better.
P.S. Blogging has been very light today because it's the end of a software/architecture release cycle and everything has started going wrong.
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When it first came in in California (of course), I remember Woody Allen, a non-driver, opining that this was the final curtain for pedestrians. As there aren't any pedestrians in southern CA, it didn't matter, but actually, he was more or less correct.
When it came in in Texas drivers,including me, came a "California stop" (meaning we tapped lightly on the brake)while looking in the road for oncoming traffic, not the pavement, for pedestrians.
Even then, not too many pedestrians in the big Texas cities, but I think it might be more dangerous in Britain, where there are many more people on foot.
pedestrians don't have right of way on the road.
Well, Dizzy, they do when the light is green. But if it's green for them and red for the motorist, he is still going to want to turn on red if he now has that right.
Errr.. he only has right of way if the lights are also an official pedestrian crossing. Not all sets of lights are I'm afraid even if pedestrians insist on using them as such.
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