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Originally Posted by ecomodded
Stop lights that are automated to cycle on and off,even though no car trips them. It drives me mad to go threw those fuel eating lights.
We have 2 4-way stop signs in a row followed by that nasty traffic light that has me sitting waiting for the imaginary cars to flow past..
needless to say I take the longer low road home and keep my momentum going. Thats my daily annoyance .
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The type of stop signs and traffic lights you describe were erected with the intent of slowing the pace of traffic. In other words, rather than demand the actual enforcement of the speed limit (which may be difficult to enforce) the mommies (it is usually that pressure group) complain to and petition the governmental powers that be that it would make the neighborhood safer if we make vehicular traffic stop on virtually every corner. And then there are those (other than the mommy constituents) who simply don't like having any vehicular traffic at all on their street, so they petition for the same.
Since politicians all too readily cave in to such demands, we now find a traffic control device on virtually every corner, quite literally in citified areas.
Some might like living in a controlled, heavily restricted environment. But let's not pretend this is being done for safety, and let's not pretend it is actually beneficial.
