Commute?

[SkyBob]

Originally Posted by mdand3boys

I don't mind slower driving - I do hate sitting at one traffic light after another though. Hilo wouldn't have "traffic" if they did a better job at coordinating the signals. Plus, think of all the gas you waste.

Thinking like a mainlander. I'm told that's frowned upon.

Bob

[whynot?]

Don't presume that the traffic lights are actually networked. We learned this on Maui a couple of years ago. "Normal" mainland technology is not necessarily deployed over here. When they "re-timed" our lights on Maui, they made the main thoroughfare times longer and the side-street times shorter, that did not -- if you read between the lines -- mean that there was a networked system based on traveling the posted speed limit BETWEEN lights. In fact, when the power had gone off a few times, it became apparent that the lights were operating "correctly," but independently of each other from intersection to intersection.

"Slow down. This ain't the mainland." (So the bumper sticker says.)