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Ya know, I've often wondered about these new "smart" traffic control
systems that suburbs around here are using.  The old system, of which
Cleveland has several, were timed so that if you drove the speed
limit, you would make every light on green.  It would often turn green
just as you approached it.  But, these new systems with the trip
device on side roads doesn't seem to allow such a smooth flow of
traffic.  I contend that the cities are being sold a bill of goods
with these systems, where the old fashioned timed system would work
much better at moving traffic along main arteries.

The old system allowed gaps in traffic so that people could enter from
side roads, it prevented long waits at cross roads with lights, and it
let people keep moving without having to stop every 1000 feet. Plus,
some of the newer lights don't always sense a car, particularly if it
is a motorcycle or a higher vehicle such as a truck. So, that vehicle
sits forever waiting for a green.

I can recall one time that the device failed to sense my car (an
Escort at the time) and I waited 4 minutes to enter a main road that
had light traffic. Finally, I ran the light, since no cars were
approaching.  Guess who got a ticket?

Bring back the simple, timed traffic light system.

Tom

Dave C. <spammersdie@slowlyandpainfully.com> wrote in message
news:938508670.928477857@news.kendra.com...
Yup, that's the problem.  So much traffic, that the trip plates are
getting hit
from all sides ot the intersection.  Consequently, the timing of a
string of
lights in one direction is never in sync, and you hit =every= light
red no
matter what direction you are going.  -Dave