Traffic lights aren’t always as mundane as stop and go. I’ve noticed some pretty puzzling lights recently, as have you, my readers - odd phenomena such as flashing yellows, missing green arrows, and bizarre sequencing. We investigate a few of these strange birds in today’s piece.
Despite the sound bite that “New strategies may be necessary to manage congestion,” traffic meters and carpool lanes aren’t new ideas. They’re just new to the San Joaquin Valley. Freeways without meters in Los Angeles are the exception, not the rule, because, when used in the right situations, they work. (Although they don’t perform miracles.)
Hoboken is planning to use clandestine cameras to catch people running red lights and stop signs.
“Conditions change, particularly because of the seasonality; so we go out and we use computer programs to try to figure out what the proper progression is because it’s a very complicated mathematical thing trying to get the signals to go particularly when you have traffic going both ways.”
Your days of being pulled over for speeding are numbered. That would be great news, except in an increasing number of states the flashing red and blue lights in your rear-view mirror are being replaced by the photographic flash of traffic cameras.
“Like many of the intersections in the new boulevards constructed a generation ago during the Southwest Corridor Project, it was built without adequate provision for left-turning traffic.”
“I had no problem with one. I was OK with two. When they added the third, I began to get annoyed. Now, there is a fourth, so I have to ask: Rochester needs four traffic lights on Illinois 29?”
One suggested improvement is traffic light synchronization. Other improvements include turning lanes, convenient mass transit, land use planning and incentives to reduce driving during peak times.
‘Take on Traffic’ Campaign Aims to Reduce Austin Road Congestion
Traffic lights installed at the over-crowded East-West Arterial Rd roundabout in Brisbane were reducing the waiting time for traffic, claims Warren Pitt, Minister for Main Roads.
The problem: a traffic light on Key Highway in South Baltimore appears to serve no purpose.
