Does that irritate anyone else? It certainly gets on my nerves.
I understand that drivers may be in a hurry for numerous reasons, but the appropriate response when traffic lights turn yellow is to slow down. Often, drivers who speed up when the light changes to yellow end up running a red as well, as the light changes again and there's no time for them to stop.
It could potentially be dangerous as well, because sometims peple start to cross a road when the light turns to yellow (although I suppose technically they shouldn't do this) because they assume any drivers will be slowing down.
There've been times when I've been about to cross a road and then realised that an approaching car has no intention of slowing down. A few months ago, one of the cars that did this ended up running through the red light - obviously, I didn't try to cross because I could see he wasn't going to slow/stop, but all the same, once the light is on red, the pedestrian has every right to be walking across the road.
I don't know. It just annoys me a bit.