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IntelligentCicada363 t1_ivbyb1d wrote

Reply to comment by Donchaknow in Cambridge City Council to consider citywide ban on ‘turning on red’ by superfakesuperfake

If cars were operating in a way that was safe for pedestrians, in some sort of utopia where everyone behaves nicely, it would likely congest the roads just as much as requiring no turn on red. The “lack” of congestion is caused by allowing cars to do things that are statistically proven to be unsafe for pedestrians.

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Donchaknow t1_ivdfvpp wrote

Maybe if every right turn on red involved pedestrians crossing then perhaps the congestion would be the same regardless of what enforcemment mechanism used, but that premise is pretty clearly false. More broadly, there are numerous street designs within and immediately adjacent to cambridge that require drivers to use careful judgement, often while being in motion, so why would we deprive drivers the ability to use that discretion here?

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