Change law to allow Right Turn on Red after Yield

The solution to the Red Light camera problem is to change state law to allow right turn on red after yield. The law should allow you to turn right on red after yielding to other traffic and pedestrians, rather than after making a complete stop.

It's what we do now, anyway, with complete safety.

When municipalities write tickets for supposedly running a red light when turning right on red, they use as their excuse that the law requires a complete stop. OK, change the damn law.

And I know just the guy to do it, too.

Do you remember that story I wrote on June 7th, entitled Solution to the Red Light Camera Scam ? I suggested that Red Light camera tickets be limited to ten dollars.

I've now come up with a way to reduce that amount to zero. Change the law to allow a right turn on red after yielding.

Years ago, red lights meant, "Stop, and don't go until the light turns green." We changed that law to allow a right turn on red after stopping.

We should now change that law, again. This time, we should allow a right turn on red after yielding, because that has become the norm for people who are driving in a perfectly safe manner.

In that June 7th piece which I wrote, I said that State Senator Dan Duffy (R-26, Barrington) had complained about red light cameras being used by municipalities as ATM machines to shake down motorists, and that we need a solution to that problem.

Senator Dan Duffy

Senator Duffy, sponsor my legislative proposal. Amend the Illinois Compiled Statutes at 625 ILCS 5/11-306(c)3, the right turn on red light law, to allow right turn on red after yield.

I even have a name for it: Call it the Rob Sherman Right-Turn on Red Law.

I'm going to call Senator Duffy, later today, and ask him to draft the legislation, sponsor it and get it filed.

I'll let you know what he says.