Some stop lights are really regulators - they reduce flow to another larger artery. For those, no behavior will improve throughput. People going too slowly is

Some stop lights are really regulators - they reduce flow to another larger artery. For those, no behavior will improve throughput. People going too slowly is not going to necessarily have a negative impact on throughput. It can - there are sets of roads that just are this way ( what you refer to as smaller roads ). I see at least three run stoplights a week, so I'm more careful about starting than I used to be.