The first I did was to run away from the problem. I moved away from the big city and it is traffic-ness. I have taken the economic hit of being away from the center of my industry and its good paying job in order to save my sanity. It’s not working anymore!
All the cars, they’re all around me—actually they’re always in front of me and you idiots keep stopping.
One reason to keep stopping is because we have so many stoplights. These thing seem to be the only way our traffic engineers know how to move thing, that is to stop things from moving. Multiply each stop by each car burning costly polluting hydrocarbon based fuels by the value of the time of each of the individual in each of those cars.
This cost us a lot. This stopping provides no useful purpose except of providing for the means for the other direction to cross. More specifically, we have to figure out how to make left turns. The left turn lane triples our wait time. But if you consider what happens when we do not have a left turn lane, look at Los Angeles, they have heavy traffic caused by two cars trying to make a left turn in a yellow. It’s crippling.
This is what total gridlock looks like. There’s just no place to go. Has anybody thought of synchronizing or more correctly phrased—sequencing our traffic light? Of course they have, but the idea is expensive and too high tech which makes no sense to me. The city of San Francisco had their traffic lights synchronized long before handheld calculators were invented.
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