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Originally Posted by Cuz
I get what you're saying about why people are slow off of lights, but the same thing can be accomplished by paying attention and making sure no one is blowing through a red light.
WGMG about intersections is not necessarily how slow people accelerate from a light, but how slow many are to reacting to the light. Seriously, it shouldn't take 5 seconds for you to realize the light has changed.
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How often does this happen? I mean, with the exception of people trying to make a left-turn and having to wait for opposing traffic to actually come to a stop. I would be surprised if the stats were high for people getting t-boned at intersections by somebody triyng to beat a red light. It just seems like there is such a long delay between the light turning red and then green for the other traffic that you wouldn't see that many incidents. Just anecdotally I haven't seen anybody run a red light at an intersection when other traffic has the green light.
I used to find the most frustrating traffic behaviour was (although recently I found out here that changing lanes in an intersection isn't against the law) people who wouldn't make a turn onto a road until every lane was clear, instead of just turning immediately into the right lane and then moving over when they got up to speed. Sometimes people do it because they want to cross 2 lanes at once and get into a turning lane. That might be the city's fault for having turns so close to each other that (eg. Market Mall parking lot exit onto 40th Ave and then to NB Shaganappi).