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On my almost daily drive the first light is 5 miles away from where I enter the road. 55 MPH and you have enough distance to anticipate the light on it's green cycle. Every single time people blast by me and get stuck at the light.
Next light is just over 3 miles away. Same scenario always passed by speeders in this section that's 45 MPH, only to catch up with them at the light when it changes green.
Next 3 miles is 12 traffic lights. Here we go again same Morons pass me speeding to the next red light. I know the timing of the lights and when I am lucky I can actually roll through all 12, and even hit the last one, which is a left turn only signal. This stretch does require a slightly better strategy. In once section you need to reduce your average speed, while in another you need to increase it.
Inevitably the speeders will ruin your average speed and get you stuck at a light by their blast and brake stupidity.
Just dumb, inattentive people who don't understand the light timing. On the return trip through the exact same section, you need a little luck and an average speed of 2 MPH over the limit to hit all 12 lights green. In most cases here if you stay right at or a couple of MPH over the limit I have driven 35 miles through over 55 lights and never stopped, but it is rare. Its always the same with other drivers. Only occasionally does another driver realize that you know the light timing and they will follow you and do the same thing. I can't put a number on the times I have heard the vehicles engine roaring as it accelerates past me while I am coasting to the next light so I can hit it green, while this idiot next to me is getting 2 MPG so he (or she) can burn up his (or her) brakes and pull over in front of me and kill my inertia. In those instances I downshift to slow down so the idiot can get going before I get there, but with timed lights in some cases it cause me to get caught by a red just a couple of lights later.
The wife once commented on how it was amazing that I almost never had to stop for a red light, even when they were 20 miles apart.
regards
Mech
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