New York CNN —In America, traveling through red lights on right turns has become a rule of the road.
States introduced it as a gas-savings measure: The theory was that it would reduce idling at red lights.
Right-on-red was a gas-savings tool during the 1970s oil crisis.
There has been little national research in recent years on the effect of right-on-red turns on pedestrian safety.
Banning right on red is not a “panacea for pedestrian safety problems,” Dumbaugh said, but could help prevent pedestrian and car accidents in busy intersections.
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