RED traffic light means? - Easy Drive Forum

dhoomk2 · 26-03-07, 02:45 PM

A red traffic light no longer means stop to a large percentage of Indian drivers. However, it is not that all the red light jumpers behave in the same way. There are 3 primary categories:

The people who think the red light is actually the flashing amber signal (proceed carefully). This number is the fastest growing category. Maybe this is due to increased colour blindness due to the increase in pollution levels. These drivers typically come to a traffic signal, pause, look to see if the road is free and then zoom off. In certain cases where they are standing behind some fool who is thinking that red is stop, they also try to convert him to their cult by incessant honking. And of couse, if you are once hooked to this... the next red signal will merely mean an advisory one which is saying - come on, stop, humour me!
The people who have the 100m sprint runner mentality of trying to outjump the gun. In few Indian cities, traffic signals display the time left to turn to green in order that people may switch off their engines to save petrol. However, to a lot of Indians, this information is regarded as a signal to test by how much can they beat the signal. As above, they also get extremely annoyed with people not participating in this race and thus lowering their chances of being the one to get first off the block. In addition to this some signals do not turn green sometimes even when the clock turns to 00 - and this of course complicates matters even further - especially to people of this category who are trying to lessen their response times by practising to pre-empt it at every signal.
This is a category which covers almost every other driver - the people who try to beat the amber turning red signal but end up crossing the signal about 2 seconds after it has turned red. The number of vehicles trying to beat the red signal is growing day by day. Earlier it would be a couple of bikes, maybe a commercial vehicle. But now it has turned into an epidemic. Bikes, middle aged ladies on Honda Activas, huge buses travelling at 9 km/hr, everybody now backs off and stops only if there is a real threat of serious injury (in the case of the bus, if there is a situation of trampling somebody). The only people left are the newbies and that is probably because they can't see well enough due to the multitude of extra-large L stickers on every observable part of the windshield.

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discostu · 27-03-07, 10:08 AM

lol. "fool who thinks red means stop"

rupali · 27-03-07, 10:45 AM

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"fool who thinks red means stop"

:-)...Welcome to "INDIA", Discostu...Being surprised and showing your dismay towards Indian Traffic would always be an understatement......

puyal · 09-02-08, 08:38 PM

In our traffic the meaning of green is go, amber is go fast and red is go faster!

26-03-07, 02:45 PM	#1
dhoomk2 Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 62	RED traffic light means? A red traffic light no longer means stop to a large percentage of Indian drivers. However, it is not that all the red light jumpers behave in the same way. There are 3 primary categories: The people who think the red light is actually the flashing amber signal (proceed carefully). This number is the fastest growing category. Maybe this is due to increased colour blindness due to the increase in pollution levels. These drivers typically come to a traffic signal, pause, look to see if the road is free and then zoom off. In certain cases where they are standing behind some fool who is thinking that red is stop, they also try to convert him to their cult by incessant honking. And of couse, if you are once hooked to this... the next red signal will merely mean an advisory one which is saying - come on, stop, humour me! The people who have the 100m sprint runner mentality of trying to outjump the gun. In few Indian cities, traffic signals display the time left to turn to green in order that people may switch off their engines to save petrol. However, to a lot of Indians, this information is regarded as a signal to test by how much can they beat the signal. As above, they also get extremely annoyed with people not participating in this race and thus lowering their chances of being the one to get first off the block. In addition to this some signals do not turn green sometimes even when the clock turns to 00 - and this of course complicates matters even further - especially to people of this category who are trying to lessen their response times by practising to pre-empt it at every signal. This is a category which covers almost every other driver - the people who try to beat the amber turning red signal but end up crossing the signal about 2 seconds after it has turned red. The number of vehicles trying to beat the red signal is growing day by day. Earlier it would be a couple of bikes, maybe a commercial vehicle. But now it has turned into an epidemic. Bikes, middle aged ladies on Honda Activas, huge buses travelling at 9 km/hr, everybody now backs off and stops only if there is a real threat of serious injury (in the case of the bus, if there is a situation of trampling somebody). The only people left are the newbies and that is probably because they can't see well enough due to the multitude of extra-large L stickers on every observable part of the windshield. Blog source

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27-03-07, 10:08 AM	#2
discostu Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Melbourne Posts: 4	lol. "fool who thinks red means stop"

09-02-08, 08:38 PM	#4
puyal Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. Posts: 18	In our traffic the meaning of green is go, amber is go fast and red is go faster!