The flashing yellow traffic signals should be eliminated from the city’s traffic control system. These signals tend to encourage the kind of driving behavior that resulted in the recent death of the child at 140th Avenue Northeast and Bel-Red Road.

I live near this intersection and enter it several times each day; it is a dangerous intersection and, at one time, had the highest intersection accident rate in the city.

I believe the flashing yellow signals are totally unnecessary. Though they may increase, slightly, the turning through-put of vehicles at the signaled intersections where they operate, this slight increase can only be achieved with an accompanying increase in the risk of accidents at those intersections.  Moreover, many drivers in the city exhibit very aggressive driving behavior (though some may not be residents of the city). Such behavior in conjunction with the flashing yellow signals can result in serious accidents.

I urge you to direct the removal of these signals from the city’s traffic control system.

David F. Plummer, Bellevue