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Going through 44 traffic lights in 20 miles, almost on a daily basis.
Set the timing to allow traffic to never stop on the heavily travelled main routes, which here are all basically east to west. The roads that access the main routes have no need for timing. They could be blocked from activating when the block of traffic is approaching on the main route. I can't count the number of times I have seen one car stop 50.
Post the timed speeds alone the road. This road has lights timed for 45 MPH. The road I travel most is timed for 47-50 MPH although the speed limit is 45, can you say STUPID.
Every time the add a light, it is never timed properly with the rest of the lights and that cost everyone MPG.
They could just take down half the lights and make the intersection right turn only. Traffic would have to go the wrong direction and make a U turn, but from my observations that is maybe 5% of the total traffic flow.
I ticks me off to no end to spend the energy to get to 45 MPH and have a single car trip a light (in many cases a light that should not exist) and watch the 30 cars coming to that light.
The heavy flow of traffic on the main routes is already bunched together by the existing light timing which provides arterial roads with plenty of opportunities to enter the main road.
Once I drove from my home to my cousins home 37 miles away and actually never was stopped by a light out of at least 50. That was one time in a hundred identical trips.
regards
Mech
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