Novel new approach to combatting speeders

[Scruit]

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/11/18/phila-road-engineers-say-speeders-will-trigger-red-lights-on-kelly-drive/?hpt=us_bn7

 

If you speed on Kelly Drive in Philly you can expect the intersections ahead to turn red for you. 

 

Interesting...

[TRMN8TR]

Interesting concept, I like it better than just ticketing everyone for speeding. Sucks for the rest of the motorists travelling at the speed limit down a road getting stuck at red lights because someone else is speeding.

[Gixxus Christ!]

Same with broad in the falls pauly.

[Scruit]

When I was in University in the UK there was a long stretch of road going into Sheffield that had something like 7 or 8 sets of lights.   The lights were timed so that if you were doing the speed limit you would only his one red.  If you went too fast you'd hit the tail end of the red of the next light.   There was no active scanning/switching of lights, just the timing.   Once you got caught at one red, the timing meant you hit the first part of the green on the rest of the lights.   Worked out great.  Speeds were always close to the speed limit and everyone knew it and we would have greens almost all the way through.

Edited November 21, 2013 by Scruit

[BMMW]

You would be amazed at the amount of people who do 50+ down 35 mph streets. Speeding on the freeway is acceptable, but speeding in rural areas is not.

 

I'm guessing there will be a bit more people running orange lights.

[oldschoolsdime92]

Downtown troys the same way. If you hit the first light green , and run 32 mph, it's very rare if you hit a red

[Helmutt]

I agree with the idea, but ultimately will surely lead to nothing but a huge dose of fuel on a road rage fire. If this catches on everywhere, we'll all be in for damn good YouTubes of some leadfooted assfaces getting their noggins kicked in by a line of stop-n-go haters

[John]

if the average speed they see is 50 mph, why do they have the speed limit set so low at 35 mph? revenue generation?

 

this is a 4 lane road, not some narrow residential street. they could easily bump it up to 45 and just call it a day.

Edited November 22, 2013 by John

[blue03636]

if the average speed they see is 50 mph, why do they have the speed limit set so low at 35 mph? revenue generation?

 

this is a 4 lane road, not some narrow residential street. they could easily bump it up to 45 and just call it a day.

 

There is way more factored into a speed limit than just number of lanes.

[cOoTeR]

You would be amazed at the amount of people who do 50+ down 35 mph streets. Speeding on the freeway is acceptable, but speeding in rural areas is not.

 

I'm guessing there will be a bit more people running orange lights.

Do you mean urban areas?

[BMMW]

Yes ... urban. Thanks for the help.

[cOoTeR]

I can see bored high school kids going out and speeding just to piss people off.