Secretary Buttigieg Vows More Bike Lanes, Bus Lanes, Lower Speed Limits, and Enhanced Speed Cameras

[mgdriver74]

Originally Posted by Wapasha

Yup, it's not rocket science. In this day of automation, they should be able to create lights that allow drivers to go thru each light without being stuck behind red lights. This is especially doable if they time the lights for the average driver to leave the green on 1st St, drive the speed limit, and make the next four lights with many seconds to spare.

Instead, we see a lot like you cite, you hit every red light for block after block. And it doesn't seem to matter because you catch red lights going north to south, and while driving parallel to you on 1st St going east to west.

Fairly easy if its a one way street but gets complicated with two ways and cross streets with differing traffic loads and different distances between lights. Throw in a hospital or fire station or school zone and it gets REALLY complicated.

I saw a road in the DC virginia area that flipped the next light red if you were speeding.

[RetireinPA]

I dont get it, its not like we hide the info or anything....


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[anononcty]

As some have noted this is also a tact to herd people into public transportation and/or cities. Make driving so expensive wether it be tickets or taxes they hope suburbanites will return to the cities in which they control.

In meantime how many potholes have been filled or road repaired not replaced. It always seems to involve a project and not a job.

[cowboyxjon]

Originally Posted by anononcty

As some have noted this is also a tact to herd people into public transportation and/or cities. Make driving so expensive wether it be tickets or taxes they hope suburbanites will return to the cities in which they control.

In meantime how many potholes have been filled or road repaired not replaced. It always seems to involve a project and not a job.

There are transportation planners out there who really do want that. I used to work for city government at one point (in California, in a UNIONIZED environment, which was totally LOL) and the transportation planners really did have a goal to ‘get people out of their cars’ because climate change.

The best thing about all of this is that THEY, themselves, would drive to work every day, because you know, they had to pick up a kid after school or drive to some type of activity. However, it was okay to push for ideas that inconvenienced other people to incentivize them to take transit or other forms of transportation, like bike lanes even though there was no demand, traffic calming strategies, etc etc.

It really is a mindset among that crowd.

[Mathguy]

Hmmmm,

1) Shouldn't be a shock to anyone that traffic deaths are up compared to 2020, shouldn't even need to be explained to anyone.

2) Citing "highest since 2006", if it's not based in terms of population, miles driven etc. it's a garbage statistic.