We've had a lot of temporary traffic lights in our area in the last couple of years, compared with previous years anyway, regeneration of a small town combined with failures from water, gas & electric all needing roads dug up.
I went through 4 sets on my 8 mile trip to work today, and 4 sets back, and that's without the static ones. Fairly rural area without a lot of, if any, alternative routes.
They were failing regularly, and are stuck on red both ends. A couple of them are easy to judge because you can see the oncoming queue and at night usually the reflection of the red light the other end and after about 5 minutes of both ends waiting, someone eventually goes one end and then the other end goes when that queue has gone. The others are not so easy as you can't see the other end, and it causes problems.
We've had police at them directing traffic more than once, and I think they must have had words because it seems to have stopped happening now, even though we've got even more 😳 but there's then someone who waits 30 seconds, or not at all, beeps at the front car and then just goes, only to meet the oncoming traffic that's quite rightly come through a green light their end., because they've assumed they're broken and not waited to make sure. I can see how people would use it (or try to) as an excuse for jumping a red light, because they really were quite bad for a time around here.
Legally you shouldn't go through a red light at all, but how long are you meant to sit there for? (Genuine question!) I'd have sat there all night for one set because there wasn't an alternative route and despite me reporting it, they were still knackered the next morning, with no police presence (or any presence) to control traffic. Though it was one you could see the other side of.
Of course you wait and make sure that they're definitely not working properly and then proceed with extreme caution, but I do wonder who'd be at fault in that situation if an accident occurred because if the lights are broken, you've both gone through a red light haven't you?
I do agree in general though, an Audi up my arse in a 40 today, I was doing 40, came to a roundabout, was clear, me and car in outside lane pull off together into our respective lanes, Audi decides he's in the wrong lane being behind me, the inside lane, and there's no room for him to pull into the outside lane, so he just speeds up the middle, last I saw he cut someone up as the road narrowed after the roundabout exit.
I mean he had no intention of waiting behind the cars moving to the outside lane to pull onto the roundabout and I was the only car moving to the inside lane, so he pulled out behind me and then pushed his way between me and the cars in the other lane. Luckily the road is wide and so after squeezing between me and the car next to me and forcing us both over right to the kerb, he effectively stayed on the white line, overtook and then cut someone up on the exit.
I see impatient or dangerous driving every day, and I live rurally so not as much traffic as cities, not so long ago was someone going the wrong way around a roundabout - I mean how?!
But I think generally people have got more self focused, less bothered about their impact on other people and behaviour has become aggressive when something doesn't go their way, there's very little in the way of 'correction' or consequences for any of it.