If anybody reads the article, this initiative seems to be results driven. They say that they’ve used this “rest on red” strategy where they punish speeders by giving them more red lights, and that I think it was in Albuquerque where they successfully reduced the average driving speed from 39 to 30 on a road using this strategy.
I grew up near a road that I swear did the opposite of this. Drive the limit, and you hit every light, drive 5 over the limit, and you get endless green. Didn’t help that the road was a horrible stroad that visually facilitated cars going easily 20 over. Coincidentally the local police also kept like 75% of the on-duty cops on that road.
Light timing has got to be really complicated, so the approach seems like it couldn’t work everywhere, but where it can be implemented, it seems like a no brainer.
yup, did this for a couple years a while back. I could drive 70-75 across town and make it to work in 12 minutes on an empty stroad at 530am, or I could drive the speed limit of 60 and it would take 20
If anybody reads the article, this initiative seems to be results driven. They say that they’ve used this “rest on red” strategy where they punish speeders by giving them more red lights, and that I think it was in Albuquerque where they successfully reduced the average driving speed from 39 to 30 on a road using this strategy.
I grew up near a road that I swear did the opposite of this. Drive the limit, and you hit every light, drive 5 over the limit, and you get endless green. Didn’t help that the road was a horrible stroad that visually facilitated cars going easily 20 over. Coincidentally the local police also kept like 75% of the on-duty cops on that road.
Light timing has got to be really complicated, so the approach seems like it couldn’t work everywhere, but where it can be implemented, it seems like a no brainer.
No they just did the math wrong. Lots of cities do.
yup, did this for a couple years a while back. I could drive 70-75 across town and make it to work in 12 minutes on an empty stroad at 530am, or I could drive the speed limit of 60 and it would take 20
guess which option I took
The medium sized city I spent a lot of time in encouraged 5 over or more in places, if you went the speed limit, you would hit every light.