🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 04 Oct 1999 19:33:23 GMT, Jim Davidson <jdavidso@nospam.com>
wrote:

>bell88@hotbot.com (Shiva Nataraja) writes:
>
>> Around here almost every major intersection has dedicated left turn
>> lanes controlled by left turn only arrows 
>
>Same in the Bay Area.
>
>> Unfortunately, the current decision algorithm has a "window of opportunity"
>> that ENDS 15-20 seconds before the light changes.
>
>This sounds wrong.  15-20 seconds is the typical duration of an entire phase.

It *is* wrong - it's extremely unfair to the poor driver who happens
to come "late" to the light. In fact, if I come upon a "stale" red
light and there are no cars already sitting in the left turn lane,
I've found it's faster to just go straight and make a left somewhere
else than to sit through an entire cycle.

>Around here, the window of opportunity ends about one second before the light
>changes, which is about what you'd expect.

Almost makes me want top move to the Bay Area. ;-)