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cptninc t1_ivd8xcg wrote

Reply to comment by IntelligentCicada363 in Cambridge City Council to consider citywide ban on ‘turning on red’ by superfakesuperfake

The published data does not back up this claim. The accident rate is actually nearly zero. Honestly, that surprises me as well given how many drivers simply run reds even after the first couple of cars in cross traffic have already cleared the intersection.

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zeratul98 t1_ix2b3qh wrote

It's a little trickier than accident rates though. If drivers make pedestrians feel unsafe, then some amount of pedestrians will stay home or choose to drive. This is a notoriously difficult effect to measure, but an important one

Banning turns on red is an important step to making pedestrians the top priority for streets instead of cars.

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cptninc t1_ix8i69s wrote

The actions which would make reasonable pedestrians feel unsafe are already illegal. Making them illegaler isn't going to change anything when CPD's own published citation data shows that they are unwilling to enforce traffic rules.

We don't need any new laws. We just need to get rid of this lazy limp dick so-called police department and replace it with something functional.

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