Letter: Seeing red?

Re: Mr. Ryan’s letter on mass red-light running.

Living north of Pine Ridge Road and Logan Boulevard myself, every day the intersection jams with the northbound lanes of Santa Barbara Boulevard attempting to turn left onto Pine Ridge.

My question is, why do the lights turn green from east to west for morning traffic? In this manner, the traffic heading west cannot go anywhere until the westbound traffic ahead moves first.

Likewise, in the evening, for eastbound traffic, the lights would turn green from east to west.

Also, after many months of threatening to destroy the fronts of most homes on Santa Barbara, someone finally got the bright idea to take one of the two northbound lanes onto Logan (which merged anyway) and turn it into a third turn lane! Amazing. Problem solved.

One would presume that a community as wealthy as Naples has the traffic lights on a computer grid since there are cameras at some of the major intersections that are, again, presumably there to monitor the lack of traffic flow.

Unfortunately, the red light runners will continue to do so until the law does take this matter seriously and the law leads by example. I haves een this many times myself and was told they were “on a call.”

Anywhere else in the U.S., the police have their lights on when responding to a call.

I have also watched officers sitting at an intersection not go after a blatant red light runner. Maybe it will take one of theirs being killed or injured before this is stopped?

Julie Shepherd/Naples