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Back when we (Zürich, Switzerland ) had a more car friendly city I recall the green waves that would trun lights green if you drove the speed limit. Back then 1
by sschueller 3y ago
Back when we (Zürich, Switzerland ) had a more car friendly city I recall the green waves that would trun lights green if you drove the speed limit. Back then 1980 and 1990s it was just timing and traffic detection rings under the pavement.
Nowadays public transport gets to go first and the "green wave" is optimized for bus lanes etc. (in the 80s to but not as extreme. ).
I don't recall having hitting a green wave in a long while because traffic is so bad during the day (this is by design to discourage driving through the city) something like that you only get to enjoy at night but by then many lights get set to orange anyway.
- countvonbalzac 3y agowhat are you supposed to do at an orange light?
- caboteria 3y agoIn Boston you speed up so you don't get stuck at the imminent red light.
- Freedom2 3y agoIf we're responding to the question with answers that have nothing to do with Zürich, like parent comment asked for, then in New Delhi you just ignore the traffic lights.
- barrkel 3y agoSwiss traffic lights sometimes change over to a blinking orange schedule at night, where the junction is uncontrolled and you treat it as yield or sometimes a stop instead.
- fred256 3y agoThe middle light in a traffic light is called yellow in the US, and orange in (some parts of?) Europe.
- SoftTalker 3y agoThis really only works on one-way streets.