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Re:Why do we have right-on-red, and is it time to get rid of... by PakG1 on Sunday January 21, 2024 @01:17AM (#39076088)
I don't think that's something the roads prioritize. That's something that the drivers choose to do. A better word might be that roads afford or allow drivers to prioritize speed. I've been in cities where drivers don't prioritize speed. It's nice driving in such cities. People are civil on the road. It's really nice.
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Re:Why do we have right-on-red, and is it time to get rid of... by Noumenon72 on Sunday January 21, 2024 @01:29AM (#39076164)
Instead of penalizing those nice cities with RTOR rules designed for reckless cities, we should step up enforcement in areas where the drivers choose to speed, until they also become nice.
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Re:Why do we have right-on-red, and is it time to get rid of... by monkaiju on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @03:18PM (#39109146)
"Nice cities" ? Mind elaborating? Sorta sounds like youre implying some cities are just 'nice' based on like personal choice and not other variables like urban design. If so thats naive...
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Re:Why do we have right-on-red, and is it time to get rid of... by Noumenon72 on Sunday January 28, 2024 @01:48AM (#39163149)
It doesn't matter if your city is nice because it only has cobblestone streets, because it's populated by the Amish, or because police lasers zap speeders. Once it becomes nice you should get to reap the benefit by enjoying safe right turn on red.
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Re:Why do we have right-on-red, and is it time to get rid of... by KennyBlanken on Sunday January 21, 2024 @01:55AM (#39076278)
It was absolutely the intention for traffic/urban planners to prioritize motorist travel times, which is why you see long delays on "beg buttons" at intersections, or making peds wait for a cycle or more of the lights, and so on.

Some cities like Cambridge, MA integrate a default pedestrian cycle at all phases of the lights, sync the lights to not provide a "green wave", and have an extensive arrangement of one-way streets to discourage drivers from using residential roads as shortcuts.

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