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re: Flashing yellow arrow traffic lights in BR
Posted on 3/8/23 at 2:34 am to fatsdominos
Posted on 3/8/23 at 2:34 am to fatsdominos
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If it’s flashing, and the road is clear, make the turn. It’s not that complicated.
you treat it like an octagonal red STOP sign -
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Posted on 3/8/23 at 2:49 am to gizmothepug
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Flashing yellow means caution, get out of BR, and NO.
Can’t wait to see the threads after we get a few of these…
Posted on 3/8/23 at 5:56 am to TigerWerm
What’s hard to understand?
They were installed in places that typically have a “left turn on green only”, which led to backups, primarily because people had opportunities to turn left and alleviate congestion but couldn’t because they arbitrarily had a red light.
If you are sitting at a flashing yellow arrow and pondering its purpose and how to navigate it, you should perhaps get off the road and leave room for drivers with more intelligence.
They were installed in places that typically have a “left turn on green only”, which led to backups, primarily because people had opportunities to turn left and alleviate congestion but couldn’t because they arbitrarily had a red light.
If you are sitting at a flashing yellow arrow and pondering its purpose and how to navigate it, you should perhaps get off the road and leave room for drivers with more intelligence.
Posted on 3/8/23 at 6:07 am to TigerWerm
Glad she’s wasting city money on the one thing we have ZERO issues with.
Posted on 3/8/23 at 6:26 am to DrEdgeLSU
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They were installed in places that typically have a “left turn on green only”, which led to backups, primarily because people had opportunities to turn left and alleviate congestion but couldn’t because they arbitrarily had a red light.
No, they weren't. All of the ones they replaced in the Perkins, Essen, Highland, Bluebonnet, College areas had a set up just like this before. The lights had a green arrow and a solid green light with a sign next to it stating yield on solid green. The solid green is exactly the same as the flashing yellow. All of my posts have been in jest making fun of Baton Rouge. There was literally no reason to spend millions of dollars to replace lights with solid green lights with ones with blinking yellow arrows. They mean the same thing. Did not change traffic.
Posted on 3/8/23 at 6:30 am to TigerWerm
The installation of these and synching the lights around town is kind of important considering I-10 is about to be a parking lot for the next 2 years
Posted on 3/8/23 at 6:33 am to TigerWerm
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Broome comes on and talks about how to navigate a flashing yellow arrow
You might be shocked to hear this, but she's probably just learning how to navigate them herself. She's that dumb
Posted on 3/8/23 at 6:34 am to TigerWerm
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This is the biggest problem in BR??? And what the City needs to be spending money on???? Idiots!!!
Baton Rouge has some of the worse traffic in the nation, and you're bitching about efforts to make it better?
This post was edited on 3/8/23 at 6:55 am
Posted on 3/8/23 at 6:35 am to BrianFlanagan
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No, they weren't. All of the ones they replaced in the Perkins, Essen, Highland, Bluebonnet, College areas had a set up just like this before.
This isn’t accurate at all. Some of them had that setup. Many had a single column of lights with either a red light or protected green arrow.
Either way - the purpose has more to do with synchronization and movement than “just replacing lights.”
The same people in BR that claim that nobody in BR leadership does anything about traffic are the same morons who complain anytime something is done to alleviate traffic.
Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t make it a bad thing.
Posted on 3/8/23 at 6:38 am to Ed Osteen
At the same time as the flashing yellow arrow, we also needed the city to spend another million on replacing a thousand street signs with these fancy ones that say "Health District" on them. I live in Walden and the Walden Rd. sign at the entrance states it's a "Health District." Changed these out the same time as the lights.
Posted on 3/8/23 at 6:41 am to BrianFlanagan
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At the same time as the flashing yellow arrow, we also needed the city to spend another million on replacing a thousand street signs with these fancy ones that say "Health District" on them. I live in Walden and the Walden Rd. sign at the entrance states it's a "Health District." Changed these out the same time as the lights.
Also, the same idiots who complain incessantly about how shitty and run down our city looks also complain about any upgrades or improvements made. Do you know the economic impact the health district has on our city?
Posted on 3/8/23 at 6:43 am to BrianFlanagan
shite at least I can finally see where some of my money is going, I’m not going to complain about upgrades and improvements to the traffic infrastructure
This post was edited on 3/8/23 at 6:46 am
Posted on 3/8/23 at 6:53 am to DrEdgeLSU
At the end of the day, I think bitching about Baton Rouge makes me feel better about living in Baton Rouge. Just so many places money could be spent. Like making this city safer to live in. Like improving public schools to where I don't have to send my two kids to private school.
But hey, now my Walden Rd. sign says "Health District" on it and the intersection I drive through seven times a day, Perkins & Kenilworth, went from having a solid green light indicating yield to turn left on to now having a flashing yellow arrow indicating yield to turn left on.
I'll stop making sure I lock my car doors at night because of the people going house to house pulling handles now that I have flashing yellow arrow instead of a solid green light.
But hey, now my Walden Rd. sign says "Health District" on it and the intersection I drive through seven times a day, Perkins & Kenilworth, went from having a solid green light indicating yield to turn left on to now having a flashing yellow arrow indicating yield to turn left on.
I'll stop making sure I lock my car doors at night because of the people going house to house pulling handles now that I have flashing yellow arrow instead of a solid green light.
Posted on 3/8/23 at 7:01 am to BrianFlanagan
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Here’s my real contribution to the thread:
It’s the epitome of BR. The flashing yellows are new all over town in the last 6-12 months. Don’t genuinely help turning left anywhere.
Right, I guess that's my gripe as well. I know they are supposed to help, but they sure as frick don't seem to. At all honestly.
Posted on 3/8/23 at 7:01 am to GoldenBoy
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was on Stuart making a left onto Perkins and I must have missed three cycles
Ugh. The worst about this intersection is how everyone in front of you if you’re not first is too timid to just turn left with the cars coming from the opposite direction. Nearly everyone is turning towards overpass and there are two lanes. You can turn left while oncoming traffic turns right (same direction) and they’re not going to hit you. They’ll stay in their closest lane and you stay in yours. People are too scared of everything.
Posted on 3/8/23 at 7:04 am to TigerWerm
I guess they changed this because idiots thought they could take a left turn on green because “the light was green” 
Posted on 3/8/23 at 7:12 am to Epic Cajun
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I guess they changed this because idiots thought they could take a left turn on green because “the light was green”
I really think this is why they changed them. Not to improve traffic, but because of how many wrecks we see all the time of people just turning left on the solid green and not yielding. The flashing yellow arrow isn't for helping traffic. It's for safety and idiot drivers.
I'm really curious now and I'm sure will never have an actual answer, but I bet 80%, at least, of the lights they changed previously had the set up with a solid green to turn accompanying the green arrow, also.
Posted on 3/8/23 at 7:19 am to BrianFlanagan
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BrianFlanagan
Nice dramatic overreaction to what I posted. I give it an 8 out of 10.
Posted on 3/8/23 at 7:24 am to DrEdgeLSU
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DrEdgeLSU
I'll take it.
Posted on 3/8/23 at 7:27 am to AtlantaLSUfan
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Glad she’s wasting city money on the one thing we have ZERO issues with.
Completely disagree. The arbitrary reds when oncoming traffic was nonexistent has been a huge issue in BR for years.
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