This inner city speeding and red light running has been a growing problem in recent years not coincidentally as the timing of traffic lights throughout the city has become more aggressive. The Traffic Control Department should ease up on light timing and let the traffic move. And while they're at it they should take down and recycle the majority of the "No Turn On Red" signs in Minneapolis. It should be more about "Traffic" and less about "Control".
Years ago most lights were timed to allow traffic to flow at the posted speed. If you drove over the speed limit, well, it was pointless because you were then stopped at the next light. If you did the posted speed you drove on, unhindered. The lights today encourage speeding by turning red just ahead of the driver. If you speed, you just might make the light... or not quite. Speed limit broken, red light run.
I would never condone or encourage speeding or light running. I'm just saying that what you are seeing is the resulting response by some drivers to a policy of more restrictive traffic light timing. Wether this policy is based on any sound or tested theories, I don't know. Did the policy to install light meters at every freeway ramp prove to be effective or prudent after it was actually put to the test?
Dan Prozinski Cedar-Riverside
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