Think the new three-way stop sign setup at Wall and North Front streets in Uptown Kingston is bad? Here's an even better one: the newly installed sign that bars drivers from making a right turn on a red light from Washington Avenue onto Joys Lane (officially Grandma Brown Lane) in front of the old Friendly's restaurant, also in the Uptown area.

The result of the new rule is that traffic on Washington Avenue now backs up from Joys Lane to Hurley Avenue every time the light is red at Joys, making a block where gridlock already was a problem in the other direction even worse. (And it'll become even more disastrous when the planned new CVS store opens on that block.)

The right on red from Washington Avenue onto Joys Lane was one of the safest in town - because there isn't much traffic crossing Washington at that intersection - and prohibiting it is inexplicable ... and stupid ... and probably dangerous.