If the yellow flashing arrow is flashing and traffic is going straight why would you turn into oncoming traffic anyway???
Same as if your lane is green to go straight or you turn if somebody is running a red you don't continue JUST becasue you light tells you to do something different.
I am stating this to the idiots that don't understand the flashing yellow. Don't run into cars no matter what the light says and you don;t understand.

Does anybody else look both way before crossing the road even though the light just turned green???? I do.
Does anybody else look both ways even though you are turning onto a ONE way road. I do. Some idiot was actually coming at me one day when I pulled onto a one way. Just missed him. My guess no license and cannot read ENGLISH when it say ONE WAY. Waved me on like I WAS DOING something wrong and continued going towards five points on Court St THE WRONG WAY. I was coming out of Walgreen driveway BYW.

"poobah
Feb 14, 2012 at 1:16 p.m.
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There's no such thing as steady red, steady yellow and steady green; they're all flashing. Some just flash faster than others. If a light were steady, there would be no need for it."

We are talking about steady as going through a normal cycle.
Flashing yellow- flashing red- I assume you have heard of these.
Ever been out past 2 am?
The lights flash yellow and sometimes red.
It means slow down caution or treated as a stop and go if red.

"SuperDave
Feb 14, 2012 at 9:23 a.m.
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Hmmm. The picture appears to be that of a steady yellow arrow, not a flashing yellow arrow"

lol "like"

The flashing turn arrow is no different than a flashing solid yellow it seems pretty obvious to me. YIELD before turning.

"If given a choice between driving in Chigago or Janesville, I pick Chicago. "

Not sure I agree all the way there.
I was turning left, there was a left only turn, the lane to my right was straight only. I couldn't quite fit in the left only because you know lots of traffic, so the butt behind me was honking at me because I was in "HIS" lane. WEll buddy cannot FIT into the left lane yet unless you like me to smoosh the car in front of me. So no they don't know how to drive. I cannot push cars out of the way just so you can pass! That happens often there. So if they do know how to drive isn't the question it is they don't they have any patience AT ALL ?? ALL the honking all the time makes sence to me now. They drive like idiots just FASTER! BLinkers are not used much in changing lanes either!

SuperDave: Just try blinking a few times while looking at the picture. :)
Greg Peck

I agree with DeGryse.

Pretty easy to understand. If the left turn signal is flashing yellow, you may turn left if there is no oncoming traffic. Keeps traffic moving instead of 1 or 2 cars waiting in a left turn lane for a green arrow, which requires cross-traffic to stop. Yellow still means caution. It's not the end of the world people. If this is beyond your comprehension, get a bike, call a cab, get on the bus or start hoofing it. Everyone would be safer, flashing yellow arrow or not.

Still waiting for someone to tell me what the Greenish/Yellowish light mix is in Janesville. E.g., corner of Memorial & Milton, and Rockport & Center. It's a newly created intersection light color - chartreuse.

There's no such thing as steady red, steady yellow and steady green; they're all flashing. Some just flash faster than others. If a light were steady, there would be no need for it.

This past summer I visited a town where they had installed this type of light at the most busy intersection in that city (walmart, a strip mall, 5 fast food, 4 hotels, 2 gas stations..all use this intersection). When the light turned green the yellow flashing arrow would turn on and everyone would start turning in front of the people going straight. Eventually the light turns red and then the green arrow would turn on. It was scary! I had people behind me honking to turn left on the flashing yellow!! My friend told me ever since they installed the lights there has been about one accident a day in the intersection. Sure enough my third day there I had to detour because someone was hit turning into oncoming traffic!

Why do those of you who think it will increase accident feel that Rock County drivers are different than those drivers the FHA spent a decade studying? Those drivers actually had fewer accidents.

I think like most yellow lights you see, motorists speed up to get thru yellow lights. I see this being just the same and maybe causing more accidents. JMO

Super Dave, Rumor has it that Flashing Yellow Arrow moved to San Francisco....

SuperDave...I hope you are not being serious about the picture showing a steady yellow arrow??

The only time that I see the arrow not turn green is when some idiot stops well past the sensor and halfway into traffic.

Hmmm. The picture appears to be that of a steady yellow arrow, not a flashing yellow arrow. And BTW, don't those both sound like the names of Indians? :)

My dad calls this the city of stoplights. Janesville has to many red arrows. I think they are stupid, 30 years ago it was just a standard stoplight and people could turn left on a straight green light. The one on hwy 14 turning north onto Kennedy has a mind of its own. Sometimes it dont even have a green arrow... it skips that cycle. Irritating.

jocose - I interpret a solid green light as just that - a solid green light. A green arrow is just that - a green arrow.

Driver Education is no longer taught in the public schools. There lies your problem. Private schools teach for the money, and do a poor job of teaching, the kids consider it a joke. In High school we took it as a serious class and received credits towards graduation.Also ,it was incorporated into your GPA.Today, it's a sham.

The rules for driving in Janesville are easy... just think bizzaro.
This yellow arrow will add to the rubicks cube of driving in Janesville.

Another waste of money!!! Just like last weekend driving out in the country between Beloit and Shopire not one but two roundabouts really there is nothing out there.. How about we put money where is needed and stop wasting it on stupid crap. By the way Janesville drivers suck esp the Janesville cops yesterday my light was green and he went right through the RED light and he was playing on his laptop I honk and he look up like opps maybe they need to go back to drivers ed!!!

I drove in Janesville on Saturday and sat and waited for 5 cars to turn on MY green light, when they had a red. I dislike very much driving in Janesville. I encounter so many more rude and dangerous drivers in Janesville than I do in surrounding areas.

Hey Janesville, how about putting light bulbs in the many many other green arrows that already exist but never turn green. What is the point of having these arrows on the street lamps if they are non working? East bound on 14 trying to turn north on Pontiac. Forget about it. And to make matters worse, you damn near have to pull out into traffic just to see if you can turn because the westbound people trying to turn south block the view. This is just one of many intersections where the green arrow doesn't work. When will we start fixing what is before adding more?

I predict disaster...adding more confusion and blinking cannot possibly create clarification, and I don't care HOW many years (or tax dollars) they wasted to tell us this. It's as ridiculous as ever.

Anyone remember all the accidents by Mulligan's during the road construction? There are red arrows, green arrows and flashing yellow construction barrels....CRASH!

Good thing I don't live in Janesville anymore. I can't afford to pay insurance for all the accidents I predict will result. (I live in a ONE light town now. haha. but people still don't drive any better-but at least we won't have the flashing yellow arrow to contend with, yet)

"Before the flashing yellow arrow, drivers had to remember to yield while turning left"

Dumbest statement of the day.

SwissChick- there you go again. Learn to read. The solid green that you mention is in the paragraph that is speaking exclusively about ARROWS.

Janesville drivers will ignore this in just exactly the same way that they ignore every other traffic signal and speed sign. If given a choice between driving in Chigago or Janesville, I pick Chicago. They may take more chances down there, but at least they know how to drive.

I'd also like to see the crosswalk signals that tell you how much time is left to get across. I think they help motorists as much as pedestrians. For example: If I'm coming up to a traffic light, and the crosswalk signal is counting down from 5 seconds, I'm slowing down, but if there's enough time left I can be confident I'll make it, and not be tempted to speed up (which I never do, of course).
I'm just sayin'...

Yeah that'll work about as much as a stop sign means stop - not slow down.

I saw a boo-boo. Solid green - turning left has right of way?? To me that should say green arrow has right of way.

Good luck with this really making a difference, considering how many drivers still think that when the light turns red, at least 5 more vehicles can go through the intersection BEFORE the vehicles that actually have a green light can move. Question for any driver's ed instructors out there--do they still teach driver's to be courteous to other driver's and obey traffic signals or is that just a thing of the past?

Before the flashing yellow arrow, drivers had to remember to yield while turning left at a round, green light or a green arrow....that should be instinctive for anyone who has been driving for more than a few months...what does this really mean? Is it a warning that the light is going to be changing? I really still don't understand its purpose, and I bet I am not the only one. Can I turn? Should I stop? If I stop, will I get rear-ended by someone who thinks I should be turning?