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Originally Posted by Hugh Jim Bissel
Not sure what you mean by timed: do you mean a set timing pattern instead of varying with sensors?
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Timed meaning all the lights along the street are timed in a pattern relative to each other.
When the city sets up a main street this way, if you drive at the speed limit, after you get a green light, you will hit every other green all the way down the street.
The sensors are good too; then the main through street stays green always unless there is actually cross traffic.
In downtown Oakland and other Bay Area cities the traffic lights are all independent and not on sensors, so they change more or less randomly.
Today I went about a mile having to stop at EVERY SINGLE INTERSECTION even though many had no cross traffic.
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through some tunnels that go directly through the city
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Wait, what!? You have interstate highways running
underneath the city? That has to be one of the craziest things i have ever heard.
I got better mileage not just cause it was longer, but because it was a lightly trafficked 5-6 lane freeway, so I could get away with driving 45 the whole way. I almost never get to go so far with out stopping, because there are just so many people and so many cars around here.