What got me was on Coldspring and Falls.... Falls has a dedicated left and Coldspring not only doesn't have a right turn allowed during that whole dedicated left but they have a red light camera to ticket you when it's perfectly safe.

Sometimes there is a green arrow, but only for about 5 seconds!

I think they’re for the pedestrians. Lots of folks walk here, and cars turning right don’t always look at the sidewalks before turning (I speak from experience lol).

Pedestrian safety in all likelihood.

Maryland loves that shit ... I have no idea TBH

Yeah right on red is actually a horrible idea anywhere you expect a lot of people to be walking. Drivers are looking at oncoming traffic and not the sidewalk/crosswalk on their other side. Something like 25% 22% of all right turn on red accidents hurt a pedestrian or cyclist

Pedestrian safety. Most of Hampden is residential with a high foot traffic commercial street. And one lane roads. Cars should not be moving through area at speed or with priority.

Plus think of the driver POV on a right-on-red. The driver is most likely heavily focused on where oncoming traffic is coming: primarily to the left or possibly ahead (if oncoming traffic has a left turn). Depending on angles, the pedestrian could enter the cross walk in the driver's blind spot if their head is turned to the left.

I remember before there was a No Turn on Red sign there, maybe like 8 years ago. I assume they put it in for the Poly students, before they redesigned that whole little stretch of Falls north of Cold Spring.

It wasn't always like that, the no turn in red. Ppl back then would sit at that light and not turn when they could. Ppl would get pissed and cut through the Exxon station to get around them.

Lots of pedestrians

This is the answer. My husband is a letter carrier in the neighborhood and has been hit several times and almost hit uncountable times walking with right of way in a cross walk because people ignore pedestrians when trying to turn. Settle the fuck down people, it’s a city.