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Old 01-19-2024, 09:38 AM   #268
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It also might lead to more collisions from red light runners.
It'd be "lights out and away we go" at any intersection with a countdown for red. Drivers start moving about a second quicker, studies say... wouldn't take long for the all-red time to be upped by a second to negate the advantage.

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The other problem from a design side is in down town areas where you want to have dedicated green time for right turns. So you want the pedestrian signal to stop pedestrians but allow traffic.
Of note is that many jurisdictions from a cost-benefit perspective see very utility to significant dilemma zone mitigation measures in urban areas with lower speed limits. 60 kph is generally the threshold.

A better solution is something like this, where the traffic signal gets smarter and tries to snipe a perfect moment to changeover by monitoring the speed of each vehicle approaching so that nobody gets caught.

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