"As for the left-turn-yield-on-green, now-retired traffic engineer Steve Walker said this back in August:
“They don’t work well on six-lane streets,” he said. “Frankly, people don’t know how to drive it.”
There are two intersections where the turn is allowed — H Street at Planz Road and H Street at Wilson Road. Those work, Walker said, because they’re low-speed intersections."

        & nbsp;  There's something I truly cannot understand... What is it about Bakersfield and they way people just pull right in front of traffic, and then lose track of where the *^%( gas pedal is!!!  When I first ended up moving here, I really couldn't comprehend Bakersfield's love affair with the red turn arrow.. Theyre EVERYWHERE!!! I grew up in Orange County, spent a couple years on Long Island and have driven back and forth many times... Bako clearly takes the red arrow and concrete "No Lefty, drive a mile out of your way and flip a U" median cake..   Then it all became clear.... car after car would just pull right out of driveways... sidestreets... front lawns... right in front of other cars and just poke along as if there wasn't another sole in town...  What Mr. Walker speaks here is the absolute truth for Bakersfield at least.... Possible depth / approaching object velocity perception problem here in the So SJV? 

     Instead of ending a plan to get traffic in this town moving, why not better educate our drivers?? In Huntington Beach the city placed signs next to the "doghouse" style signals that state for left turns to yield when the light is in full green mode.. and if I'm not mistaken one of the intersections above has the same signs, but HB went further and added 2 fluorescent orange flags behind (to the sides of) the sign to make it more eye catching.. And even if that isn't enough, maybe we could drop a little note into TV spots via Brighthouse. Possibly into the spanish media as well (being that the signs are in english, this might account for a portion of the accident issue) Instead of babysitting the more inept drivers here, making us all suffer, EDUCATE and the accident factor should fade away, and we can all enjoy more time in our day NOT sitting at red turn arrows.  Maybe someday we can even make left turns out of our neighborhoods as well!!!

BTW there's 3 intersections with the "doghouse" or passive/protective left turn signals.. the 2 above and Baker & Truxtun on the east side.. (At least last time I was over there... maybe that one's gone now as well..)

As for signal timing, the signals downtown along Chester Ave are usually set pretty well.. Can we have the same person set the signals for Calloway/Old River, Coffee/Gosford, Stockdale/Brundage (whats with the double named streets in this town BTW???) Hageman, Wilson & Ming? (I'm sure there's more ;)

Trippers are sometimes inconvenient.  I've had green lights go back to yellow almost immediately when a car pulls up to a tripper.  Airport drive is terrible for that.  The other day I hit every single light red all the way to the freeway.  Not red when I got there, but turned red as I approached so I had to sit out every...single..cycle.

Try tripping any light on a bicycle.  It's not always as easy as you think.  I ride along Riverlakes Dr and all 3 lights on that road (at Olive Dr, Hageman Rd, and Coffee Rd) are difficult to trip.  I often find myself having to turn around-a dangerous feat-and reposition myself in the lane.  Bakersfield needs better signals and maybe more roundabouts.  And what's with putting a light in at Verdugo Ln and Noreiga Rd, but not at Hageman and Jewetta, which has a lot more traffic???