TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Radar Detectors

Re: Radar Detectors

R. T. Wurth (rwurth@att.net)
Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:57:12 GMT

Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote in
news:telecom24.26.3@telecom-digest.org:

> abbygale wrote:

>> If you research the issue, you'll find that locales fond of the
>> 'red-light cameras' have nearly all decreased the "yellow" times to
>> make the systems more *profitable*. It's about revenue, not safety
>> and it's just another tax.

> I've about had it with those stupid intersections around here. Most
> have reasonable timing, but some don't. This is the big, empty Mojave
> Desert, and we do have SURFACE streets with speed limits of 60 and
> even 65 mph here (granted, the 65 mph highway is US 395 coming out of
> this area into the middle of nowhere, but it's still a 65 mph,
> *two-lane* highway). There are certain intersections where, if I see
> the light turn yellow, I only have a few seconds to slam on my
> brakes. Disgusting.

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> (4638) Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / sjsobol@JustThe.net / PGP:
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(This is a bit far afield for Telecom Digest, but here goes anyway.)

There are national standards incorporated in the Manual of Uniform
Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). I don't know about California, but
here in New Jersey, it is legally hard for a government to erect and
enforce a traffic control device that doesn't conform, although there
is a procedure for legalizing exceptions. If you read up, you may
discover standards for yellow light intervals as a function of speed
limit and other conditions. Then you would need to see if CA has
adopted the manual, added state-wide amendments and/or allowed local
exceptions.

-- Rich Wurth / rwurth@att.net / Rumson, NJ 07760 USA

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