Eric Westhagen wrote <. . . the duration of the yellow light would be shortened even more and the crackdown would include bikes not stopping or pedestrians walking against a light when the street is empty. . . . >
The timing of the traffic signals, including the length of the yellow, will not be affected by this bill. The camera only takes a picture if a vehicle is detected by loops in the road. The cameras do not run constantly and there is no one "watching" the intersection in Big Brother fashion for violations. Pedestrians crossing against the signal would not be detected. I'm not sure if the loops would be sensitive enough to detect bicycles, but even if they are, since there is no vehicle registration plate on the back of a bicycle there is no way to identify the owner of the bike and thus no way to issue the bicycle's owner a ticket. I agree with Steve Drake that this is something bikies should be able to get behind. I cross E Wash at Ingersoll on my daily commute home and typically have to wait after my signal turns green for 2 or 3 motorists on E Wash to run the red before I can proceed across. Arthur Ross, Pedestrian-Bicycle Coordinator City of Madison Traffic Engineering Division 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Suite 100 PO Box 2986 Madison, WI 53701-2986 608/266-6225 _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
