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Comment by amyjess | Hacker News Reader

It's funny, as a pedestrian I want them to ban right turn not on red.

Or rather, you should only be able to turn onto a road if that road has a green light for going straight.

Why is that? My problem as a pedestrian is that cars 1) don't actually bother to stop at the red, sometimes barely slowing down, before turning and 2) if they do stop, they're looking left, to see if it's safe for them, and not right, to check for oncoming pedestrians.

because they definitely don't stop on green...

But there they’re at least not looking away.

THIS!!!!

When i lived in California people would honk their horns at me for stopping at the red light before making my turn, sometimes even when there were pedestrians in the crosswalk.

In a lot of intersections, pedestrians cross a road at the same time that cars going in the same direction do. That means that a right on green is turning directly into a pedestrian lane that has the walk signal. A right on red, in contrast, is turning into a pedestrian lane with the 'do not walk' signal, and so is safer for pedestrians.

Yes, this is exactly it.

I've nearly been run over several times by people making right turns as I'm trying to cross the street with a walk signal.

So I think I get the aim which is if the light to your left where you're crossing is red you know there aren't any cars coming but that doesn't really work because of lefts from the other direction. Am I missing the goal?

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