Goodbye to right on red? Over 700,000 drivers face new traffic rules under safety plan

Drivers are worried the proposal would make their commutes longer.

Resident Skylar Keyser told NBC affiliate WSMV that the ban would extend travel time.

“If there’s a car not needing to turn right, it stacks up the traffic to where it just takes a lot longer than it should for people to get past,” Keyser said.

Maryanne Rieder, a resident who says she turns right on red multiple times a day, believes the ban isn’t needed outside of Nashville’s downtown district.

“It seems like things have gotten pretty dangerous down on Broadway and in the blocks surrounding that, so I think that that would be a great starting point,” Rieder said.

“Starting there and making sure that that makes downtown safer, I think, is a great idea.

“But outside of that, I don’t see much merit in extending it to other areas.”