That would be sensible. If I'm being very charitable, I would say you might naively set this up so that the next light's stopped traffic clears just before the

That would be sensible. If I'm being very charitable, I would say you might naively set this up so that the next light's stopped traffic clears just before the previous light's traffic arrives, and perhaps that's how it worked during the day (I was a teen, I didn't go downtown during business hours much). After 5, it just encouraged you to punch it to make them all in one go.