Does Northborough Have Too Many Red Lights?

If you’re frustrated with the red light situation in Northborough, you are in good company.

While stop lights are one of the necessary evils of commuting, they don’t guarantee safety for pedestrians or cooperation from drivers.

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, red-light running is the number one cause of urban crashes. Furthermore in 2013, approximately 127,000 people were injured in red-light related crashes.

In August 2015, the National Coalition for Safer Roads released an interactive safety map that would allow users to see the number of red-light running deaths in their area as part of the group’s ‘Stop on Red’ initiative.

At Patch, we appreciate that our readers and motorists know they stop lights in Northborough best. We asked you on Facebook how you felt about the red lights in our area. Could Northborough use more red lights? Are there too many? What intersections need a stop light, or can get rid of one?

Here’s what readers said on social media:

• "The lights in center of town are fine, but not aligned. I often stop at one light, then the next, then the next. Or, at times I have a green light to take a left off Church Street onto 20 and it is so backed up at the next red light that I am blocked in the middle of the intersection."

• "I think there's enough. But the left at Church Street from Route 20 needs to be longer than literally 5 seconds long."

• "Some of the red lights need right on red."

• "Too many lights uptown."

• "Yes, we need more green lights."

• "Not enough. Crawford st. for example"

Is there red light in [town] you can’t stand? Is there an intersection that could desperately use a red light? Let us know on Facebook.