Flashing yellow lights aren't safe enough

Green is go. Yellow is proceed with caution. And red says stop. The tragic bike death of a mother of five crossing a busy four-lane highway under a yellow blinking caution light can happen again.

Central Avenue at Melas Park in Mount Prospect is a busy highway carrying cars, buses, trucks and semitrailers daily. The intent of having a flashing yellow light to have traffic stop for crossing safely doesn't work when drivers are blind sided by large trucks blocking the flashing yellow lights or drivers distracted by the sun, iPhones and other visual issues.

In fact, it is reported the state of Illinois has no safety data to prove these flashing yellow lights work on busy roads with four lanes of heavy traffic.

The solution to this problem is to install a stop light in the same manner that is in front of the Westbrook school on Busse Road. Will it take another death before the state acts to remove this ill-conceived cross walk from busy Central Road?

Thomas A. Braun

Mount Prospect