The city I live in is just about perfect with the light-controlled intersections. Seriously, I love this place. A few reasons: 1. At night, many of the interse

The city I live in is just about perfect with the light-controlled intersections. Seriously, I love this place. A few reasons: 1. At night, many of the intersections here go red for all directions, and will immediately turn green for a car as it approaches. If you're going the speed limit, you don't even need to slow down. (To be clear, it gives you a green before you would ordinarily need to start braking) 2. Protected left turn signals are only installed where they're appropriate. The last place I lived just threw them up at every single intersection in some sort of ass-covering maneuver. Here, if the intersection is low traffic and has good sight lines, then you make your left after yielding to oncoming traffic. 3. The timing is super tight. I regularly notice cross-traffic signals going to yellow just as the final car passes through the intersection. I'm not sitting there wondering, "Green for who??" 4. If I enter a protected left-turn lane while the cross traffic yellow is lit up, it'll still give me the arrow. Everywhere else I've lived, I'm "too late" and have to wait for an entire new cycle before I can go. But here, as I'm passing over the induction loop, the controller instantly queues me up before the oncoming thru traffic. I've been half-joking that I'm going to write a love letter to the municpal traffic engineering department, but I really think I should. I just keep noticing their work, especially when I see how bad it is in surrounding cities.