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At 07:12 PM 11/14/1999 -0500, "Bruce T. Genereux"
<gen77@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>Traffic Light Synchronization --
>An Air Quality Benefit, or a Sop for Motorists?
>
>If this was an attempt to have an objective analysis of traffic light
>synchronization, in my opinion it failed. To me, you are biased
towards
>mass transportation and are using the condition that because people
can
>drive from point a to point b faster, more of them will want to make
>this trip. You conclude,
>"The bottom line is that there is not one shred of proof that traffic
>signal synchronization is beneficial (or that it is not)!" How the
heck
>are you ever going to conduct an unbiased scientific study trying to
>prove a subject term like "beneficial"???????

You know what I mean: reducing air pollution. That's the "benefit"
that TSS promoters CLAIM.

>There are lots of studies that have shown traffic light
synchronization
>speeds up traffic, 

In one direction only. And that says nothing about air pollution.

but it's a no brainer anyway to see how coordinating
>two traffic lights less than 100 yards apart will speed up traffic.
>Right now, that's good enough for me!

But that's not what I was talking about. Did you READ what I wrote? I
am talking about AIR QUALITY.

>What did you get your doctorate in, anyway? It sure wasn't in
critical
>thinking.
>
>Bruce Genereux

Sounds like projection, to me. You haven't even understood what I
wrote! Read it again, and this time, LISTEN.
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