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The Trick To Stop Speeding Drivers Is Actually More Green Lights (www.thedrive.com)
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[–] -3 points 3 weeks ago* (5 children)

Do you want traffic lights to only turn every 5-10 minutes? Lights were always going to be changing more than transit was arriving, if altering how it changes slows speeding drivers why wouldn’t you want that?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    I don't want traffic lights. If you design your cities properly (with no personal cars) traffic lights are not needed at all. Outside cities traffic lights don't make sense anyways, intersections there are better off as roundabouts.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Sounds great, but I don’t live there and do have to deal with drivers and traffic lights, and I would like to implement whatever measures will slow them down. If the first and easiest is altering traffic light patterns, cool, do it. I’m supposed to not want this?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    It depends on whether this is about retiming existing lights (which is relatively cheap) or building new ones. Retiming existing lights is fine, building new ones just shows that engineers don't care about the problem and would rather waste millions of $ on a non-solution.

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