Does Lacey Have Too Many Red Lights?

If you’re frustrated with the red light situation in Lacey, 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 accidents.

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 the stop lights in Lacey best. We asked you on Facebook how you felt about the red lights in our area. Could Lacey 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:

• We have enough lights. I think its ridiculous that you can make a right on red at every light in Lacey EXCEPT the one at Caffrey's & 9 which only makes people cut through Wawa or Caffrey's.

• It has enough but the ones it has last forever. You sit and you sit, almost begging for the green.

• They need to sync them a little better, but that corner by Caffrey's and Wawa has had way to many accidents there...they needed that light!

• I can think of two places that still need them. Lake Barnegat and Haines.

• Bay way and Rt. 9 needs somwthing. Too many accidents.

• Lake Barnegat and Haines.

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