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I'm 100% convinced the traffic lights in my city are times so that you catch every red light. I can see the antenna that communicates with the next light. And w
by sixothree 3y ago
I'm 100% convinced the traffic lights in my city are times so that you catch every red light. I can see the antenna that communicates with the next light. And when I get to the next light it turns red just before I get to it. Every. Single. Time.
I assume they're trying to collect more taxes from gasoline. Either that or they are about as stupid as you would expect from people in this part of the world.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoWhen I was a kid, we went through some town in the midwest when we were on vacation. They had no speed limits - just signs that said that the traffic lights were synchronized for 25 MPH. Once you figured out that they were telling the truth, you drove 25. So you can get more efficient traffic flow and eliminate speeding (if you've got a perfect grid system).
- sixothree 3y agoIn my city if you're near the front of the pack and drive 15 mph _over_ the speed limit, you can get to the next one before it stops the entire pack.
- barrkel 3y agoMany French villages have adopted this slightly differently: there's one traffic light on the entrance to town, and it turns red if you're going more than 50kph after the village name sign (equivalent to a 50kph speed limit sign in France).
- yogurtboy 3y agoI think it's pretty selfish of you to assume that it's in a city's best interest for you to hit green lights. This project can be an excellent tool in a civil engineer's toolkit, but that doesn't mean that every intersection should be perfectly optimized for traffic to always flow unobstructed, especially around hot pedestrian areas and busy hiway entrances and exits.
- sixothree 3y agoAnd it's extremely presumptuous of _you_ to assume that I don't know insurance companies are the reason for this change. Stop reading into motives.