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It's weird how subjective experience can be so different. I live in East San Jose a mile from downtown. I'm very happy with it. I love riding my electric bike a

It's weird how subjective experience can be so different. I live in East San Jose a mile from downtown. I'm very happy with it. I love riding my electric bike around town and my only complaint is that for a supposedly high tech city the traffics lights are not even close to being syncrhonized. I can't related to most of your other complaints. Your other complaints are complaints you often hear from conservatives about San Francisco. I took my bike on the train to SF not long ago and spotted no feces and smelled no urine as I rode around The City. Homelessness is a problem in San Jose and SF, but no worse than in many other cities I've been in.

tmaly 5y ago
I am in CT and a local road near my house suffers from this light synchronization issue. I think it comes down to a city verse state road in my case. I have often thought if lights were better optimized, we could save on gas usage in cars.
labcomputer 5y ago
> for a supposedly high tech city the traffics lights are not even close to being syncrhonized No, it's worse. Every time I have to drive in Santa Clara County, I get the impression that the traffic engineers they hired are sociopaths. The traffic lights on El Camino are perfectly timed to force you to stop at every. single. damn. one. That is, unless you drive 20+mph over the speed limit. I initially thought this might be to encourage walking and cycling, but you run into the exact same problem on a bike. The infrastructure isn't very ped-friendly, either. I just don't get it. The stoplights are timed to make travel excruciating no matter how you do it. The problem with El Camino light timing ends when you cross into San Mateo county, btw. It's the polar opposite of LA, where you can drive 10's of miles (late at night) on surface streets with the cruise control set right at the speed limit, never touching the gas or breaks. Cycling in the valley or on LA's west side, you can usually hit 3-5 greens before needing to stop (and then only briefly). Edit: formatting
- mwattsun 5y ago
  I used to drive Uber and I agree that El Camino is the worst. It's so bad somebody should lose their job for incompentantly managing traffic. Santa Clara Ave through San Jose isn't any better. It's maddening and I agree, it doesn't matter if you bike or car. The irony is San Jose is near the top of the lists for IOT smart cities. Ok, but your traffic lights say different.
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tmaly 5y ago

I am in CT and a local road near my house suffers from this light synchronization issue. I think it comes down to a city verse state road in my case. I have often thought if lights were better optimized, we could save on gas usage in cars.

labcomputer 5y ago

> for a supposedly high tech city the traffics lights are not even close to being syncrhonized No, it's worse. Every time I have to drive in Santa Clara County, I get the impression that the traffic engineers they hired are sociopaths. The traffic lights on El Camino are perfectly timed to force you to stop at every. single. damn. one. That is, unless you drive 20+mph over the speed limit. I initially thought this might be to encourage walking and cycling, but you run into the exact same problem on a bike. The infrastructure isn't very ped-friendly, either. I just don't get it. The stoplights are timed to make travel excruciating no matter how you do it. The problem with El Camino light timing ends when you cross into San Mateo county, btw. It's the polar opposite of LA, where you can drive 10's of miles (late at night) on surface streets with the cruise control set right at the speed limit, never touching the gas or breaks. Cycling in the valley or on LA's west side, you can usually hit 3-5 greens before needing to stop (and then only briefly). Edit: formatting

mwattsun 5y ago
I used to drive Uber and I agree that El Camino is the worst. It's so bad somebody should lose their job for incompentantly managing traffic. Santa Clara Ave through San Jose isn't any better. It's maddening and I agree, it doesn't matter if you bike or car. The irony is San Jose is near the top of the lists for IOT smart cities. Ok, but your traffic lights say different.

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