IF THE ONTARIO GOVERNMENT really wants to have infrastructure improvements that would provide a lot of jobs, we'd like to suggest one that would also save many lives and many millions of dollars in health-care costs and vehicle repairs.

All the government needs to do is install safety devices that have long since existed in other provinces and are found just about everywhere in rural British Columbia.

The devices are large signs with flashing amber lights to warn traffic approaching signalized highway intersections that the lights are about to turn red.

They are computer-programmed so motorists moving at the speed limit know the lights will be red when they reach the junction. All traffic immediately slows, panic stops being a thing of the past. As a result, skid marks of the sort found everywhere at Ontario intersections are absent in B.C., and countless lives have been saved and both injuries and wrecked vehicles avoided.

As we see it, such warning signs would likely have prevented the tragic crash that closed Highway 10 Tuesday of last week.