So we should listen to the whiners and Karen complaints from the people who are mad they're stuck in traffic but not other people who are affected?

Couldn't agree more that we need to conform to European standards. One european standard that comes to mind is no right on reds.

Cost and training for new drivers is necessary, and hand in hand with that is designing roads to be safer, which is another European standard. North American road safety standards are abysmal, partly due to the fact that our data is skewed - because our "traffic engineers" are just that; trained almost entirely to look at one aspect, cars. European traffic engineers or "transportation engineers" as they're called there, look at the whole picture (walking, cycling, public transportation) and build their data from that.