Sequenced Traffic Lights

Posted in: Frustrations, Green-Living, Politics, Technology | Posted by: rcornish | Comments: 4 | Date: 07 November, 2008

Red LightI am driving around somewhere the other day and I got really annoyed about the traffic lights.  It usually works, especially on stretches of by-passes and main through routes that you get stopped by just about as many lights as there are on the stretch of the road.  I have always thought this was kind of lame.  After all, the idea of the traffic signals is to keep traffic flowing in as orderly a fashion as possible.  In fact what usually happens is the lights retard the flow of traffic by causing excessive amounts of stopping. Read more…