Grand Larseny » traffic http://www.grandlarseny.com What's a sweatshop without a little fun? Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:01:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 ☕ Red Light Cameras http://www.grandlarseny.com/2009/01/red-light-cameras/ http://www.grandlarseny.com/2009/01/red-light-cameras/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:00:30 +0000 Daniel http://www.grandlarseny.com/?p=268 Ars Technica links to an article done by the Rocky Mountain News investigating red light cameras in Denver.  While I have much to say about red light cameras specifically, and even more about traffic “laws” in general, the interesting thing to me about this news comes in the last paragraph of the Ars Technica writeup; longer yellow lights make for safer intersections.

While this makes sense intellectually, it has now been verified through anecdotal evidence.  Next we need to get cities to stop treating traffic violations as a source of revenue and start treating them like a safty issue.

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