Monday, August 15, 2005
Gimmie A Green
Now that our gas prices have reached 112.9 per litre I think it is time our traffic lights were syncronized to give streets with the most traffic a green light one light after another.
Lets face it. Traffic lights today are mostly all electrocically controlled and can be set for different patterns. There are too many lights in this city where you hit one green and the next one turns red just as you get to it.
Or there are traffic lights that are set to slow traffic for whatever reason. Case in point in this area, a brand new set of traffic lights on Burnside Drive/Wright Ave. At busy times those lights change to green for Wright Ave. the moment there is a slight break in the Burnside Dr. traffic, which is heavy most times. I watch traffic come to a stand still and sit every morning with no traffic on the cross street at all.
We all know that numerous starts and stops consume much more fuel. There are many intersections in our cities set up just this way. This is one of many ways that could be corrected to improve traffic flow, save fuel and polute less.
Many motorists try to drive and adjust their speed so they hit the next traffic light green. That is impossible to do at many of our intersections.
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Now that our gas prices have reached 112.9 per litre I think it is time our traffic lights were syncronized to give streets with the most traffic a green light one light after another.
Lets face it. Traffic lights today are mostly all electrocically controlled and can be set for different patterns. There are too many lights in this city where you hit one green and the next one turns red just as you get to it.
Or there are traffic lights that are set to slow traffic for whatever reason. Case in point in this area, a brand new set of traffic lights on Burnside Drive/Wright Ave. At busy times those lights change to green for Wright Ave. the moment there is a slight break in the Burnside Dr. traffic, which is heavy most times. I watch traffic come to a stand still and sit every morning with no traffic on the cross street at all.
We all know that numerous starts and stops consume much more fuel. There are many intersections in our cities set up just this way. This is one of many ways that could be corrected to improve traffic flow, save fuel and polute less.
Many motorists try to drive and adjust their speed so they hit the next traffic light green. That is impossible to do at many of our intersections.
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
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