Silverdale is lucky it doesn’t have Bremerton’s red light cameras, there would be tickets falling like rain.

As anyone knows who has sat at the intersection of Silverdale Way Northwest and Northwest Bucklin Hill Road, when the light turns green, often enough, you have to wait.

You are waiting for the motorists from another direction to clear the vast, somewhat scary intersection.

It’s hard to blame them, most of us have tempted fate by hitting the gas on a stale yellow light. And considering the midday and rush hour backups, it’s annoying to wait and wait before finally jetting through the intersection.

It’s also annoying to crash into somebody else’s car, which happens frequently at this intersection, as detailed in reporter Kristin Okinaka’s front page story this week.

County officials plan to reset the lights, and it could bring some relief to drivers and pedestrians who cross at Silverdale’s most crash-prone intersection.

But, in the end, it won’t be a longer green, a longer yellow, or shorter red lights that will solve the problem.

The solution, which is the solution for so many aggravations we endure on the road, is simple, and sometimes impossible.

Patience.