Tuesday, September 1. 2009

traffic patterns and construction are broken!

traffic

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I live in Pittsburgh, where i am sure the traffic lights are desynchronized on purpose. Randomly setting to red and green cannot
make us stop in so many traffic lights. Pittsburgh could easily use a little traffic-light programming! I am ok with it, since i ride my bike everywhere everyday.

today, i was especially surprised. a huge line of cars waiting at a stop sign, where usually there is no traffic. even during rush hour, 8:30am. i was sure it was an accident. naive, very naive. it was CONSTRUCTION. how can you allow construction to happen during rush hour, reducing from 2 to 1 the number of lanes leading to a traffic light? obviously, the number of cars per lane doubles, and the amount of time to go thru the light increases tremendously.

putting road construction during rush hour? it's broken!
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