Flashing orange lights before red a much safer option!

G/Day Josh, Agree people don't care until there affected by a fatality,

But if a flashing orange light is displayed before the traffic lights then the temptation to get through before red is a lot less.?

Cheers Axle.

I don't agree. If there is warning the lights are going to change they will just speed up to try and make it. It won't change their attitude or actions. If a person runs a red light nothing will change that.
Please explain how a flashing orange light will stop them.

Josh

Josh i agree,........It won't stop the lunatics!, but maybe the ones that are half mad.?.......Its got to help.



Cheers Axle.

You are joking I hope! I bet they text while in the toilet. Stuff them. Throw the phone out. You are now encouraging them knowing that they have time to continue/finish.

Unfortunately there have always been inattentive drivers even before mobile phones. And yes I am serious about orange light before green. I hate sitting behind someone in LaLa Land and missing a light sequence altogether.

Yes, there will always be some. Doing their nails, family troubles or work hassles etc. Hasn't changed that much.

I even nearly missed one the other day. And no it wasn't the phone. I don't even carry it. It's flat as a tack and back home where it belongs. I just wasn't there and not even looking at anything. No one to toot/blast the horn to wake me up. A flashing light would not have made any difference. Not proud of it, but it did happen. Just finished chemo and was thinking of that.

I used to drive between the major eastern cities a lot. I do not recall any difference at the lights. Flashing or not, it was the same.

I would like to see the schools get flashing lights though. Not all day. Just when the normal start and finish school times are.

I recall many years ago that in Adelaide at least this was the norm. The light sequence went red, yellow, green, yellow, red.

Ulitmately it was realised that the yellow prior to green was giving the impatient ones the excuse to jump the lights by reving up on amber & dropping the clutch as soon as the light went green. Unfortunately, often at that moment a vehicle would T-bone them as it was running the red from the side.

I too like the flashing amber warning of an imminent red we have on many intersections in WA, especially those where the intersection is just around a bend.

Normally they are on main truck routes.

Cheers Neil

G/Day Mate, ..Not disagreeing with you, but have a drive down pennant hills rd NSW at 6am it takes some nerve to even remoteley do the right thing!!!.


AXLE.

In regards to speed cameras how many times have you just gone over the limit by a few klms and thought bleep and dabbed the brakes ??? And I dont mean 10k over or even 8k Im talking say 64 or 65 in a 60 zone ??? This is enough to get pinged by a mobile camera.

Im not saying I dont speed and Im not in total disagreement with speed cameras either but rolling accidentally just over the limit and your gone for what ??? 4k more is so dangerous.............And these bloody safety cameras as they call them, the amount of people who slam their brakes on when at the line cause they think they will get pinged on an orange (that has just gone orange) will one day end up with a b double up there arse.

It must drive truck drivers insane who rely on the gap for pulling up their huge trucks......... Next mobile camera I see and the sign is not set up correctly I will be stopping and taking a photo if its set up illegal. Why do these blokes have the right to set up on the council strip and not get pinged for it. Christ I cant even park my car on my lawn out the front in a dead end street and I have been warned by the ranger ??

I thought these cameras were for black spots ?? I have been driving the same road for over 20 years, the mobile camera that is set up there in the afternoons you cant tell me its not for revenue ?? I have never seen or heard or read abut any accidents in that spot EVER in over 20 years and I lived not far from it for 15 years. I dont doubt that it catches a few speeding but I thought the idea of the cameras was to reduce road tolls where there have been numerous persons killed or injured or high accident rate ??

And no I havnt lost my licence or lost excess points I have been fined 3 times in 27 years of driving including trucks and courier work so I do have respect for the law just not all speed cameras I see as safety only.

If its about safety, then I would love to know why the lights near my house were fitted with a safety camera before the school down the road was fitted with warning lights at the kids school crossing ?? WHY, cause the safety camera's going to make more money then a set of flashing amber lights at a school......................................................

""If you don’t have enough time to stop before going through a red – you shouldn’t be driving."" totally agree with you............

And yeah AXLE mate that roads a night mare at the best of times, try peak hour and school zones and all the clowns on their mobiles texting while driving and wanting to kiss your flares every time I drive down it......I certainly miss the steel winch bar from the old hilux, this alloy one dont think will stand upto it if it needs to lol.............

G/Day Kimba,....Lol Plenty of expression of emotion there on the subject.


Mate!! start a new post!!, .... Safetey Versus Revenue. Away you Go..Lol.



Cheers Axle.

LOL its probably be done a million times. I have no problems with trying to improve safety, we have a 4 year old so like many people out there we know how precious our kids are but there is a difference between safety and money making hence why there bringing out so many more mobile cameras. If its such a danger area put in a 24 hour speed camera with all the warning signs na wont do that cause people slow down then speed up again, we are all guilty of it whether its 1km over the limit or 10. Na go the mobiles cause you wont expect them so they will ping more then send the fine in the mail 2 weeks later, yeah thats safety at its best lol Now there's talk of 30k limit in residential areas, christ it will be quicker to walk soon. Get people to pull there head out of there arse and there iphone's and watch and listen to whats going on around them and there might be less pedestrian's getting hurt. Thats my rant for the night cya.....................

Doug,
I will second that. They are brilliant in the higher speed zones.

Also WA excellent school zone warning lights.

G'day Doug,
Have to agree these are brilliant. We have them down here in Vic on the old Princess hwy in Officer.
Seen quite a few of them in my travels but can't remember where else.
You can get off the accelerator really early & almost roll to a stop. Should be more of them.
Cheers
Stu

we were coming down the Tonkin last night between Morley drive and collier Rd, the warning lights started flashing before we got to them, so I backed off, the vehicles that were behind me changed lanes and sped up, One out of the six vehicles got through the rest went through on red lights the fixed speed and red light camera could only get off three shots, of the vehicles. This intersection has killed of lot of people, and going by last nights behaviour it will kill a lot more, because of drivers doing the wrong thing. the people who got caught will complain that is revenue raising, Me I call it tuff titties, you deserve everything that you get, And I am not a saintly driver.
Broodie H3

Agreed.....they work well here in WA so no reason they would not work well in the other states. We sure have a lot of these. Those that try to beat them, generally get pinged now with the speed and red light cameras.
BW.

Yep totally agree with you Tony, as per my rant above lol................

Now ya talking, I like your thinking.