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Pick one of two Why? Couldn't you have 2/3 of one and 1/3 of the other? For instance, enforcing speed limits on a busy road near an elementary school? Not o

• TallGuyShort 17y ago
  In this case, the fact that shorter yellow lights are increasing revenue, means more people are running red lights, which significantly increases the chance of a collision.
• Semiapies 17y ago
  Optimizing for revenue collection is designing the rules to be easily broken. This does not enhance safety. If you want to bust a lot of speeders by a school, you must first have a lot of people speeding by a school. The best way to do this is to have a nice, straight, uncontrolled road that's clearly safe to drive at a faster speed than posted. That will encourage speeding and thus ticket revenue when you set up a speed trap. If you are more concerned about the safety of children crossing the road, you will do things to discourage people from actually driving fast. You'd make the road curvy, make T-intersections 3-way stops, put in speed bumps, add crossing guards, or use whatever combination of a variety of techniques makes sense for that road in order to make drivers go slower.
• philwelch 17y ago
  It's a lot easy to pull people over on wide and open roads, though. If you were designing a traffic area around an elementary school for maximum safety, you'd narrow the streets and do a lot of things that probably get in the way of setting up speed traps--especially the easily concealed speed traps cops are so fond of.