“Red light running is an issue of growing concern on our roadways,” said Greg Seiter, spokesman for AAA, in a news release. “And the increased traffic we expect to see around busy shopping malls this holiday season, we believe it’s important to help motorists understand just how dangerous the act of running a red light really can be.
Two safety experts ticketed for speeding in Ann Arbor this year are urging a judge to dismiss the citations, arguing that the city’s speed limits are unsafe and illegal under state law. They did not argue that a statute allows a city to supersede state law in setting limits. But they did assert that “the only logical method for determining a safe speed limit on an urban roadway … under the jurisdiction of a local authority like the city of Ann Arbor is to allow that local authority to make individualized determinations based on the recommendations of its traffic engineers.”
The story behind one city’s decision to put a (well-intentioned but annoying) traffic-calming stop-sign where there is no intersection to the ire of nearby residents. The reporter notes that while they watched, unsurprisingly, not a single car came to a full stop at the stop sign.
