Cameras cameras everywhere...

[Dirty Frank]

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No, yellow lights are not timed the same for every intersection, including those with red light cameras. The duration of a yellow light is calculated based on factors like the speed limit and intersection size, and is designed to give drivers time to either stop safely or clear the intersection before the light turns red.

The yellows are timed the same but different municipalities have varying delay or latency between the activation of the red light and the activation of the green light for the opposing traffic.

 

[sburns]

Or like mentioned, roundabouts. thing with red light cameras they are not in busy intersections, or not in my area although they have three or four with in 5k from my house

Roundabout won't work all over Toronto, poor city planning, and they love traffic lights. Ever see a new plaza go up, bam, new traffic lights. Even if it's close to another set of lights. And they can't time it correctly so everything backs up between the 2 sets.
Goldfish I tell ya, goldfish...

 

[FullMotoJacket]

Another reason to require mandatory ROW courses for roundabouts.

FTFY

 

[FullMotoJacket]

Cameras (red light or speed) only penalize the law breakers. I'm good with them.
There's no "cash cow" if people obey the laws. Lots of whinning over nothing.

Wrong. Cameras penalize the owners of vehicles, whether they were the lawbreaker or not.

 

[FullMotoJacket]

The yellows are timed the same

Take a drive down Rymal Rd. in Hamilton and come back and tell me that.

different municipalities have varying delay or latency between the activation of the red light and the activation of the green light for the opposing traffic.

THAT is how you minimize cross traffic collisions in intersections, not fining people for being .2 seconds over an arbitrary threshold when SAFELY going through an amber. Having been behind people that are hard on the ABS as soon as a light turns amber because they're paranoid about wallet cams is a valid argument that the cams make intersections less safe at times.

 

[timtune]

Wrong. Cameras penalize the owners of vehicles, whether they were the lawbreaker or not.

Did I run a foul of the semantics police. You get the point. If you don't run red lights or speed those cameras don't affect you ASSUMING no one steals or borrows your car.

 

[mimico_polak]

Our area USED to have a camera in front of the school...but since that camera kept going to sleep all the time they got rid of it, but traffic didn't really calm down.

Imagine my surprise a week ago coming home from work, and I've got SEVEN (maybe 8) speed bumps within a 750-1000m zone.

In the morning on the way to work, none. By the time I came home in the afternoon, 7 new speed bumps!

Now those idiots that are speeding are passing through our street to bypass 3 of them...may complain and ask for them on our street too as there's really lots of idiots ripping through.

 

[FullMotoJacket]

Did I run a foul of the semantics police. You get the point. If you don't run red lights or speed those cameras don't affect you ASSUMING no one steals or borrows your car.

You can cry semantics all you want, it's still ticketing the vehicle, not the driver. That is not debatable. It's the equivalent of your property (default: you) getting fined because someone parked their unregistered vehicle in front of your house overnight. It's not right, but it's out front of your house, so it must be yours. Fight it at city hall..........good luck with that.

 

[Dirty Frank]

Take a drive down Rymal Rd. in Hamilton and come back and tell me that.



THAT is how you minimize cross traffic collisions in intersections, not fining people for being .2 seconds over an arbitrary threshold when SAFELY going through an amber. Having been behind people that are hard on the ABS as soon as a light turns amber because they're paranoid about wallet cams is a valid argument that the cams make intersections less safe at times.

Its been a minute since i have had the luck to visit beautiful Hamilton so i will take your word on that.
Wouldn't be surprised if the issue with those controls has something to do with the ultra modern 086 processor that runs them.

 

[nobbie48]

Take a drive down Rymal Rd. in Hamilton and come back and tell me that.



THAT is how you minimize cross traffic collisions in intersections, not fining people for being .2 seconds over an arbitrary threshold when SAFELY going through an amber. Having been behind people that are hard on the ABS as soon as a light turns amber because they're paranoid about wallet cams is a valid argument that the cams make intersections less safe at times.

Years ago the OPP put an officer on a bridge over the 401, armed with a radar gun. A gaggle of fast moving cars came along and seeing the cop, slammed on the brakes causing a multi-car collision.

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