• Semi-Hemi-LemmygodEnglish
    7•4 months ago

    Once you shift your driving style to minimise waiting at the next light (which usually means driving the posted limit) you will find the light turns green just before you arrive at the intersection. Traffic engineers usually time traffic signal this way as well.

    There’s a street in my town where the lights are timed such that if you drive the 25mph speed limit you don’t have to stop.

    That is unless there’s a bunch of idiots who insist on speeding to a red light, only to stop for five seconds. Then you have get stuck behind them and you also have to stop.

    I wish there was some way to communicate to people that they’re on a stretch of road like that so they know that going the speed limit is actually faster and easier than gunning it only to stop again a quarter mile ahead.

    Edit: It would be super if car drivers thought streets with bike lanes worked like this. If enough of the streets actually do that, maybe it would get them to slow down next to all bike lanes.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•4 months ago

      The. Problem is too many streets where the lights are not synchronized, or even synchronized well above the speed limit

      My town redid a major street during COViD to cut it from 2 lanes down to one thru lane plus turn lanes. They also synchronized the lights. It’s so much calmer of a street now, and we get through much faster.

      They did a lousy job trying to add a bike lane but I guess that’s all you can hope for when the pavement was unchanged