Comments on: A Simple Method To Dramatically Decrease Traffic Congestion & Why Cities Aren’t Using It

By: Carlos

Carlos — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:18:17 +0000

Dude, traffic light timings are programmed, not “wired.”

By: Carlos

Carlos — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:11:18 +0000

I’ve seen many cities that do REVERSE synchronization: If you drive the speed limit when the light turns green, you can guarantee that the next intersection will turn red AS SOON AS YOU GET THERE. If you speed by at least 10 mph, you’ll get through as it turns yellow.

By: Joe Di Medio

Joe Di Medio — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:48:01 +0000

It’s going to be here. The CFTS whether someone doesn’t want it or not. The 40,000 that that are lost every year are going to be reduced dramatically. It the CFTS and We/the Foundation are going to save lives, eliminate accidents, traffic jams, and road rage. A foundation has formed no thanks to me for it, but what’s going to come out of it is 21st century, and going to take our expectations above and beyond, and all accommplish all that it says. I, Joe Di Medio/CFTS says please, maintain correct distances with all speeds at all times. It is thee number one that is going to help make the difference

By: MichaelJohn

MichaelJohn — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:58:42 +0000

Am in the process of creating my own blog entitled “Traffic lights waste your time and money” but find this one more than adequate. In putting mine together, I found that drivers in most countries, England, Australia, Hawaii, have pretty much the same complaint; governments that are incapable of traffic light synchronization, or who are merely pawns of the oil, automobile, and spare parts industries.

At some point we need to begin to pressure the Sierra Club, AAA, The National Television Stations and any other mass media into bringing this travesty to the general public. Most people, in the back of their minds, know there is something wrong with the system, but actually believe there is no correction at hand. I’ve actually had people argue that if there was a fix, government would have fixed it already. How incredibly naive! This system feeds the local, county, and state governments inexhaustible cash and allows them to step up enforcement anytime the larders begin to empty. A more enlightened public is needed to begin the ground swell that will bring this nonsense to an end.

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Thu, 08 May 2008 04:53:25 +0000

[...] income source. Engineering improvements that lessen the income brought in by the cameras include traffic-light synchronization, the elimination of unneeded lights and partial deactivation of other traffic lights during periods [...]

By: Ron R

Ron R — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:04:11 +0000

This is an approach that I have believed would work for a long time. The positive affects you get are actually squared. Let’s do a hypothetical analysis. If we assume that the average commute in a large city involves 200,000 vehicles and is 30 minutes long and that timing the lights would save each one of them 1 minute. This amounts to 200,000 vehicle minutes not on the road for each rush hour. This means that there will be fewer cars on the road an any given time so that the congestion is further reduced and the commute time gets even shorter. Let’s assume that this also saves an additional minute. If we also assume that these vehicles are averaging 25 mph and getting 15 mpg then our “average” vehicle is consuming 1.67 gallons of gas per hour or 0.056 gallons of gas saved per vehicle in the 2 minutes the commute was shortened. This amounts to 11,133 gallons of gas saved per rush hour in all 200,000 vehicles. If we then extend to 2 rush hours per day, 5 days per week, and 50 weeks per year we then have 5.6 million gallons of gasoline saved per year in our hypothetical city. At $4.00 per gallon, that amounts to $22 million saved. Not bad. If we add in all the air pollution not generated by these vehicles not idling at traffic lights and not accelerating away from them and all the brake dust not spread around by these vehicles not stopping at red lights and we have even more reason to do this.

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:11:50 +0000

I live along Route 17 south of the James River in Virginia. If you drive the speed limit coming off the bridge; and make it to the first light while it is green, you will proceed through all the lights into Chesapeake without stopping. If you speed, as a considerable number of the drivers do, you “accordion” at every light. I have barely had to slow down at each intersection because I don’t break the law.

By: JOE

JOE — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:03:14 +0000

James, while I couldn’t agree with you more with your proposal, I don’t however believe that it’ll fly legislatively without creative lobbying. The Oklahoma Municipal League will jump on this like a lion jumping on a squirrel. To the public these little known municipal organizations (I believe most states have one) affects all our lives immensely and that includes traffic control issues. I like to mention them every chance I get because this is one organization that needs to see a lot of sunshine in public… “in light” of it’s importance. They bare a heavy footprint in most state legislatures. And if you think they like the driving public….think again. The only thing they like about us is our money. Compounding the problem in Oklahoma, believe it or not, one municipal organization is not enough! We must have one for each section of the state. In this part of the state we have another relatively unknown important organization know as (INCOG), the Indian Nations Council of Governments. While they do perform other useful services to its member governments, it also has a lobbying program. I believe my town mayor was on it for a while. James I’m sure your familiar with both.

I’m sure in ‘07 the Municipal League teamed up with the Department of Public Safety. The DPS wanted to get out from under their duties, under the law, to kick their cronies off the prime speed trap roads to revenue. Together they had a lot to do with pulling the remaining teeth that our already a poor speed trap law had. No cites or towns have been charged since this law was skillfully altered, yet nothing has changed enforcement practices, the speed traps persist. Ever wonder why people no longer have any confidence in our justice system or our governments. If you think the people of this country control their governments’…think again. Can you say LOBBY, and I’m not talking about the motel type. They are now often referred to as the unwritten, fourth branch of our government. Wake up people. Rome lasted a 1K years. We’ve got a long way to go and it’s already not looking too promising. We better quite running around the world trying to put democracies in places where they aren’t wanted. We need to clean our own act up first. You can slice it, dice it, roll it or otherwise try to change the looks of it but the connection we see between money and the enforcing entities amounts to nothing more than plain old third world corruption and it’s getting worse, not better. Getting fresh out of civics class you might think we have such a great government…until you live (and drive) many years and see the reality of it.

Because of the recent squabble of school funding I emailed my fine state legislative team and ask them to support diverting all revenue, generated by traffic control, to our school system. There was so much glee to my suggestion that the response was…..well nothing. To be expected.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:27:17 +0000

I remember in Clark County back in Ohio, there was at one point a small town outside of Springfield that got cited and eventually had its entire police force taken by the state for creating illegal speed traps as a source of income for the town. This sort of thing needs to happen more so that citizens are not taken advantage of.

By: AlBraun

AlBraun — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:24:06 +0000

To help alleviate speeding, the cities should put speed indicators on every street.
IF they are truly interested in safety, here is an answer.
They wont do it because the money from tickets will disappear.