Blinking yellow turn lights

[Cowpoke]

Why?

What was wrong with,
green arrow = turn left, you have the right of way. (oncoming traffic has a red light)
Yellow Arrow = same thing but its about to turn red. (oncoming traffic still has a red light)
Green light = ok to turn left, but oncoming traffic has the right of way. (oncoming traffic has a green light)


Now there are green lights, green arrows, yellow solid arrows, yellow blinking arrows, yellow solid arrows AFTER its been blinking a while.

green arrow = turn left, you have the right of way. (oncoming traffic has a red light)
Yellow solid Arrow = same thing but its about to turn red. (oncoming traffic has a red light)
Yellow blinking Arrow = ok to turn left, but oncoming traffic has the right of way. (oncoming traffic has a green light)
Yellow solid AFTER its been blinking = (I'm guessing oncoming traffic still has a green light?)
Green light (on intersections with the old system) = ok to turn left, but oncoming traffic has the right of way. (oncoming traffic has a green light)

 

[1981grad]

I see your frustration. We have these here in Utah. When the yellow arrow is blinking, you have to remember that the person making a left turn does not have the right away.

 

[osutater]

Try driving in New Jersey. Everyone passes on the right. It’s a cluster when you are at a stoplight. If both people at the light are turning left, you cannot turn because some crazy is going to drive around him and t-bone you.

 

[EvilPOKES]

We have them here and I like them better than the old ways. If I am sitting at a red light in the middle of the night when it isnt busy as opposed to a blinking yellow where I can go...I'll take it.

 

[Marshal Jim Duncan]

I think they're FANTASTIC. I wish we had them in Tulsa; they do have them in Broken Arrow.

In Mount Pleasant, Michigan they had flashing RED turn arrows. They had basically the same function as the flashing yellow (except you are required to stop first), but I found it very confusing when we were up there for the Central Michigan game.

 

[BluegrassPoke]

We have them here in Dallas and I like them.

 

[long-duc-dong]

We have them here and I like them better than the old ways. If I am sitting at a red light in the middle of the night when it isnt busy as opposed to a blinking yellow where I can go...I'll take it.

If I'm sitting at a red light in the middle of the night when it isn't busy I run the damn thing.

 

[JonnyVito]

I hate green lights personally.

 

[EvilPOKES]

If I'm sitting at a red light in the middle of the night when it isn't busy I run the damn thing.

I said not busy, I never said I was alone

 

[Cowpoke]

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We have them here and I like them better than the old ways. If I am sitting at a red light in the middle of the night when it isnt busy as opposed to a blinking yellow where I can go...I'll take it.

Why would that be any different than a (non arrow) green? What scenario did there used to be a red in the left lane below, where now it would be blinking yellow?

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I see your frustration. We have these here in Utah. When the yellow arrow is blinking, you have to remember that the person making a left turn does not have the right away.

Right, I totally get what the flashing yellow arrow means. It is the same as a (non arrow) green before. You may turn left but you must yield to oncoming traffic, because they have a green light. My point now is it seems that a solid yellow arrow seems like it can mean two different things. A solid yellow arrow after a green arrow means that the oncoming traffic still has a red light, but not for long. However, a solid yellow arrow after a blinking yellow would seem to indicate that the oncoming traffic still has a GREEN light.

 

[JonnyVito]

Keep in mind here that there are people who are color blind and a blinking yellow arrow might be easier to stop accidents happening in those situations

 

[jkosu returns]

Stupid people kept charging into the middle of the intersection and causing accidents on "Left Turn Yield on Green" while claiming that they thought a green signal gave them the right of way. So in the name of safety, we have blinking yellow arrows now....because we can't possibly say "quit blaming the traffic signal for your own stupidity."

Not sure what they'll go to once the stupids start blaming blinking yellow arrows for their stupidity.