Pedestrian safety: No turns at walk signals

Re: “Right turn on red? U.S. cities consider bans” [Nov. 5, Nation & World]:

For my part, vehicles shouldn’t be allowed to show by way of pedestrian stroll alerts. That features no proper activates purple lights and no left activates blinking yellow lights.

I feel the left activates blinking yellow lights are extra harmful than proper activates purple lights. At the very least with rights on purple, the automobile is in entrance of you so you’ll be able to (hopefully) see it and cease.

Automobiles turning left on blinking yellow lights are behind you so you’ll be able to’t see them coming. Additionally, I feel that vehicles turning left on blinking yellow lights are paying extra consideration to oncoming vehicles than they’re to checking for pedestrians within the cross stroll.

If we wish cities to be pedestrian pleasant, we have to cease vehicles from turning throughout pedestrian cross alerts.

Constance Schmidt, Seattle