When I'm in the cage I don't like to slam hard on my brakes or accellerate really hard. I also don't speed, I used to in high school and stuff, but now just a few short years later I seem to not be in as much as a hurry everywhere. Seems like lately every time I get close to an intersection the light turns yellow just after I've committed to going through, and it turns red about the time I'm in the middle, or 3/4 of the way across the intersection.
If it turns yellow and I feel like I have to slam on my brakes to stop, I don't stop.
All of our lights here have a overlapping red, where it turns red for one way, and then about 3-5 seconds later (which seems like FOREVER), the other direction gets a green. So, realistically, I'm several seconds away from the intersection by the time the other direction gets a green anyways.
That's what I do.
Also, they've gotten rid of the flashing red left turns in several intersections that should still have them. It's where when both ways in your direction have green, the left turn stays solid red instead of flashing red so you can't go if there's no traffic anymore.
It makes me angry, since if there is no vehicle in the left turn lane about 3-4 seconds before the cross traffic gets yellow, the left turn will not turn green, and it will allow the traffic going straight in both directions go. I always seem to get to the light just as cross traffic is about to turn yellow, so I have to wait a full cycle to turn left. In the mornings during the summer, when I go to work, I stop at the solid red turn when cross traffic has red and I check and go anyways since all cross traffic is stopped, and there is usually nobody coming in my direction from across the intersection.
iceholes
