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Originally Posted by freebeard
That sounds like the opposite to providing a window into the timing of the lights. The original pitch was route planning with realtime input. Accommodating the needs of the entity providing the data is a new consideration.
If you buy into that smart phone cr*p, you could watch the lights changing in Eugene from Denton.
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It's lipstick on a pig, glossing over a designed-in, structural deficiency of the physical infrastructure.
Municipalities cannot live within their means. Without 'growing the economy', and the revenue it brings, they go under.
Any and all business activity is encouraged, while shorting traffic engineers and civil engineers.
Contractors end up connecting arteries and veins, making merging without stops impossible, 'through-put' becomes technically impossible.
Entropy builds. Gridlock.
The municipality continues to issue building permits, inviting more traffic onto infrastructure already 'saturated.' More gridlock.
As traffic overwhelms the city, it continues to metastasize.
The city re-zones, allowing even higher population density, developers over-overwhelm the infrastructure.
If you'll examine the portfolios for the city, county, state, and teacher retirement pension funds, you'll notice that they are direct beneficiaries of every activity which is directly driving the increased congestion, wasted man-hours, pollution, climate-change, you-name-it.
By all other metrics, this would qualify as insider trading, malfeasance, and conspiracy, as they directly profit from all waste they generate by growth, something which cannot exist without a greenlighting at all government levels.
An inside job. 'Rule of law'- protected.
I had to pay Texas for some of the data. Some was sent on request. And today, you might have to file an open records request, freedom of information act-esque procedure, in order to get the data.
Since all governors, mayors, etc. network, nationwide, I would presume that they all play the same game. Patron - client privilege, dating to the Roman Empire, perhaps Sumer. Darkly fascinating.