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My city has lights timed to ensure that signals turn red just before the wave of traffic reaches it. You can see the signals have antenna on them pointed at the
by sixothree 7y ago
My city has lights timed to ensure that signals turn red just before the wave of traffic reaches it. You can see the signals have antenna on them pointed at the next intersection.
It is infuriating on a level I can't describe. My guess is they are trying to reduce accidents or they are trying to make more tax money by getting people to burn more gasoline.
- alamortsubite 7y agoDo you have a source for this? Driving in city traffic can be frustrating, but I wonder if the antennas you see are for emergency vehicle signal preemption, or serve some other purpose.
- sixothree 7y agoNo sources other than observations from myself and all of my friends and family going to work the same route every day.
- sixothree 7y agoI would be happy to capture some video though. Driving on long streets after hours it is especially noticeable.
- sixothree 7y agoLastly, the emergency vehicles use pulsed light which have a different sensor pointed towards the traffic and not the other direction.