The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) is feeling more pressure from City Council and activists as council members have been trying to get rid of the red-light traffic enforcement program and extend the length of yellow lights at busy intersections.
According to the Los Angeles Times, a study by Panos Prevdouros, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, said that readjusting signal times has been shown to increase safety in many circumstances.
Councilman Bill Rosendahl wants LADOT to engage in a study that examines the effects of increasing yellow lights at 32 intersections and re-examine LA’s busiest intersections by traffic and pedestrian flow.
LADOT officials have been reluctant to comply, claiming they had already optimized signal timing at the 32 intersections and monitoring the intersections would be overly burdensome.
“Changing the signal timing would most likely eliminate the vast majority of collisions at these locations,†said Jay Beeber of Safer Streets LA.
