> Is that the goal of traffic light timings? I'm not sure. I think timings are more often used specifically to slow traffic Exactly. There's also the issue of

> Is that the goal of traffic light timings? I'm not sure. I think timings are more often used specifically to slow traffic Exactly. There's also the issue of pedestrians (of which most of the time I am part of), i.e. we, as pedestrians, don't really care if the traffic in front of us is fluid or not, we just don't want to wait 5 minutes or more at an intersection in order for the pedestrian green-light to be on.