<div dir="ltr">I'm a growing fan of "turnabouts" as a replacement for traffic lights. It takes some getting used to but it's (nearly) zero maintenance. And the center can be a nice planting with some beefy steel crash bars.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Jim Lynch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com" target="_blank">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 7/22/13 1:33 PM, Sparr wrote:<br>
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I'm reading this from the point of view of a person approaching a<br>
flashing red light. How am I to know whether cross traffic has<br>
flashing red or flashing yellow?<br>
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This is an interesting study on the topic. Their solution is to have most intersections red/red except in the case of a very busy roadway intersecting a very lightly traveled roadway.<br>
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