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Blinking yellow left turn arrows will become widespread in Baton Rouge area streets
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:28 am
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:28 am
Posting this because so many of you seem baffled at simple traffic concepts like turn lanes or roundabouts. I know this because I drive along side and near you.
Here's a helpful guide on what to do when you encounter a blinking yellow signal.
Here's a helpful guide on what to do when you encounter a blinking yellow signal.
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East Baton Rouge Parish drivers will soon see blinking yellow left turn arrows on traffic lights, which could help move traffic through intersections, city officials said in a news release Monday.
The blinking yellow lights signal that a driver can make a left-hand turn after yielding to any oncoming traffic or pedestrians. The blinking signal will be added as a fourth to lights that currently have a solid green arrow (okay to turn), a solid yellow arrow (stop if you can do so safely) and a solid red arrow (stop, do not turn).
The Federal Highway Administration has tested the blinking signals and found that they reduced left turn crashes by 35% while helping move more traffic through intersections.
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Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:29 am to goofball
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which could help move traffic through intersections
or do the exact opposite.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:30 am to goofball
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found that they reduced left turn crashes by 35% while helping move more traffic through intersections.
Remember that time they removed the light at East Boyd and Burbank for about 3 weeks?
That went well.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:31 am to Eat Your Crow
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or do the exact opposite.
It works in other states, but Louisiana drivers are unusually stupid.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:31 am to goofball
I remember when I lived in BR I would be baffled by all the people treating blinking red/yellow like a four-way stop. It’s like they all collectively skipped that day at drivers ed 
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:32 am to goofball
I've lived in an area with blinking signals, they are wonderful. You would no longer be waiting for entire light cycles in order to turn.
Louisiana will find a way to frick it up.
Louisiana will find a way to frick it up.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:32 am to goofball
Doesn't Lafayette have these around River Ranch Kaliste Saloom?
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:33 am to goofball
I bet that at least half the posters in this thread think the blinking yellow will replace the green arrow. Because they didn't read the OP.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:33 am to goofball
Lafayette has that shite and I've seen a ton of accidents because of it.
Older people have it ingrained in their brain that the next light after Red is Green. When it goes from Red to flashing yellow, they go, and get smoked by oncoming traffic.
Legally, and on paper, it makes sense and should work great. In practice? Not so much.
We're licensed to drive for life. The rules changes, but we don't. It's a lot different out there since grandpa took his driving test back in 1960.
Older people have it ingrained in their brain that the next light after Red is Green. When it goes from Red to flashing yellow, they go, and get smoked by oncoming traffic.
Legally, and on paper, it makes sense and should work great. In practice? Not so much.
We're licensed to drive for life. The rules changes, but we don't. It's a lot different out there since grandpa took his driving test back in 1960.
This post was edited on 4/28/21 at 8:35 am
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:33 am to goofball
There is already something like that at the Hooper/Mickens intersection.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:34 am to goofball
We have a lot of those here now and all of a sudden, everyone becomes a race car driver and almost always creates an accident. This 'rona crap created crappy drivers.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:34 am to Stealth Matrix
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I've lived in an area with blinking signals, they are wonderful. You would no longer be waiting for entire light cycles in order to turn.
That was already possible with the solid green light after a green arrow.
Plenty of people already treat a yellow light as a stop light. Making it blinking just confuses/scares them even more.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:35 am to goofball
They're everywhere in Atlanta. Some people are too dumb to discern that a solid green also means yield to oncoming traffic.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:35 am to Open Your Eyes
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Plenty of people already treat a yellow light as a stop light. Making it blinking just confuses/scares them even more.
It's widespread here in Illinois. Works well.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:41 am to goofball
And you thought traffic circles were bad, wait till Louisiana drivers are hit with this.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:48 am to goofball
THANK GOD 
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:49 am to goofball
They have those in Atlanta and it seems to keep the turn lane moving....or at least in my experience.
It will definitely be useful at night when some intersections are deserted and won’t have to worry about some low life coming out of nowhere and jack your car
It will definitely be useful at night when some intersections are deserted and won’t have to worry about some low life coming out of nowhere and jack your car
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:50 am to rented mule
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And you thought traffic circles were bad, wait till Louisiana drivers are hit with this.
It's a separate blinking yellow arrow. I don't think it will be that challenging. Turn left allowed after yielding to traffic.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:51 am to LaBR4
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Doesn't Lafayette have these around River Ranch Kaliste Saloom?
Yes
Posted on 4/28/21 at 8:52 am to BitBuster
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Lafayette has that shite and I've seen a ton of accidents because of it.
Drivers turning on Camelia from Veron's have no clue how to use that light.
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