exCLP
Civil/Environmental
- Apr 13, 2007
- 12
Anyone have history, data or recommended practice information on the following:
"When the signal light turns green, the driver should remain stopped for 3-seconds of green, before starting into the intersection, to protect against cross-traffic drivers running their red light."
Evidently Bell Telephone Company's Safety Personnel use to instruct telephone company drivers to do this, as a matter of company policy. This same driver safety advise is again showing up in some corporate personnel safety training programs.
A concern with this advice being handed out again is present-day Actuated Left-Turn phasing timing-out on "snappy" timed signals about when the first driver starts to move in to the intersection, perhaps prompting disgruntled second & third queue drivers to run the following red light, since they expected to make the green light the first driver sat through.
Any official responses available on this one?
"When the signal light turns green, the driver should remain stopped for 3-seconds of green, before starting into the intersection, to protect against cross-traffic drivers running their red light."
Evidently Bell Telephone Company's Safety Personnel use to instruct telephone company drivers to do this, as a matter of company policy. This same driver safety advise is again showing up in some corporate personnel safety training programs.
A concern with this advice being handed out again is present-day Actuated Left-Turn phasing timing-out on "snappy" timed signals about when the first driver starts to move in to the intersection, perhaps prompting disgruntled second & third queue drivers to run the following red light, since they expected to make the green light the first driver sat through.
Any official responses available on this one?
