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Originally Posted by GGG
If you use the pedestrian count down timer and coast into intersections that you would have gone through on yellow because it would have been unsafe to stop if you hadn’t slowed down you are a bad driver reducing the traffic capacity of roads. We have long yellow and dual red phases. Adding additional coasting time into the last few seconds of a pedestrian countdown adds layers that are not required.
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Disagree, countdowns can be used very effectively most of the time. They give you an opportunity to judge whether you should:
1. speed up a little bit to put you past the dilemma zone and know you're certain to get through on green
or
2. coast because you know it's impossible that you'll make the intersection by 0, so why waste gas and brakes on a [probably] futile endeavour?
Of course the problem comes on scenario 3 where the light stays green, and now you're back on the gas as you enter the dilemma zone. It would be nice if there was some standard of say minimum 5 seconds more green after 0 if 0 doesn't mean yellow. I think it's pretty rare that it's like 2-3 more seconds, but I feel like that's happened to me a few times and is very annoying.