[SDCBC] Why you should look both ways.................

[Eric Converse]

Why not make right turns on red illegal?  They are in all of the European Union (unless stated otherwise on a sign) and in Montreal.

Or, why not a full stop in every direction (especially, where there is a high density of ped/cycle traffic like near the 56 path).  Can't this be done?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_turn_on_red

Eric


----- Original Message ----
From: John Eldon <j.eldon at sbcglobal.net>
To: Jon Perkins <admin7 at cox.net>; SDCBC at bikesandiego.org; Gene Carman <gcarman at san.rr.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 9:08:32 AM
Subject: Re: [SDCBC] Why you should look both ways.................


I have two recommendations to make walking (and occasionally cycling, such as in this mis-engineered case) safer: 1) permit right turn on red from the curb lane only, never from additional right turn only or right turn optional lanes; 2) deploy more red right arrows.

John E.

--- On Wed, 7/2/08, Gene Carman <gcarman at san.rr.com> wrote:

Consider this, there is never a safe controlled time that a cyclist can
leave the 56 bike path at those intersections to cross the street to the
rest of the bike path.  
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