Do municipal workers and road engineers ever actually travel the same roads I do? How could they? One of the most annoying irritants on my daily travel to and from work is going through areas with a series of several traffic lights. The lights are never programmed to allow traffic to flow freely through. You know what I mean. You stop at a red light to allow 2 cars to go through, wait for another 2 minutes, the light turns green and you go another 100 yards to find that the traffic light has just turned red which means another time consuming stop. The cycle repeats for the next 5 miles. This is annoying for several reasons. It causes delays, congestion, and ties up traffic. What are the city planners thinking about? Not the drivers.
You’d think if they had to travel these same roads they’d figure it out. I’ve decided they’ll never do anything about it unless…unless we can tie this delimma into global warming. That’s right, you heard it. Delaying traffic like this only causes a larger carbon footprint by increasing green house gases, increases deadly fossil fuel consumption, and destroys the ozone layer, which destroys rainforests, which causes the US to experience the coldest winter on record, which causes Philadelphia to have April, May and June “gloom”, overcast skies, and torrential rains for the past 40 days. There, you have it. Perhaps now BO will take action and appoint a traffic “czar” to mandate government controlled traffic lights which are coordinated to allow government owned cars to easily pass through our suburbs, towns, and cities.
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