Red turn will soon be allowed
The Government of the Russian Federation contains a dispute about whether it is possible to allow the turn right to the red light. Although many road services claim that this is a very useless measure, but no changes will be made. In fact, not in all places you can turn right into the red light. This is allowed only where there is a special sign on which there is a special inscription.
Until that time, such a measure was only an experiment conducted during this year. Such signs on traffic lights reporting that it is possible to turn right in the presence of red light, were installed in 13 intersections. Namely: in the Belgorod and Moscow region, as well as in Moscow itself. Experts believe that this experiment was more than successful, because over the entire time of its conduct, not a single accident occurred at these intersections! In addition, the throughput has increased many times at such intersections, which is very good for the city traffic.
Based on such results, this year in the fall, it was decided to put similar signs throughout the Russian Federation. This sign in each place will be identical to others, as it will have to be brought into traffic signs. But, more recently, a statement appeared from the deputy head of the data center in Moscow and the Moscow Region Alexander Polyakov, who expressed that the experiment was very unsuccessful, so it is necessary to install such signs only at the intersections where the low workload is fixed, that is, there are few cars there.
A little earlier, the results of such an experiment, which took place on the federal routes of Russia, were also made public. Only there this experiment was different in that on those roads the maximum speed was increased, which was 110 km/h. This experiment can really be considered successful, since here the number of accidents decreased by more than doubled! In total, in a fairly long period of time, only 10 accidents occurred. Compared to the previous year, in the same period there were 23 traffic accidents. Such an unexpected result of this experiment allows you to leave the conditions that were during the tests, namely on these tracks, you can ride at a speed of not more than 110 km/h. But, there is one condition. On the tracks where such speed will be allowed, there should be four lanes that will have a dividing barrier. Currently, the Russian Federation has only 8% of the roads that exist in the state.
Therefore, such signs will appear only where there will be a low level of road load. Therefore, they will not be installed in large numbers.