Dear Boss Of The Traffic Signal Programmers, please reinstate the monkeys. They were doing a much better job. —Exhausted
This article appears in Sep 8-14, 2011.
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This was written yesterday after taking 30 minutes to go from Long Lake on St. Margaret’s Bay Rd. to downtown, BTW.
It is awfully organized. The point they seem to take is that it is a good thing to slow traffic and minimize car usage. But so much idling at lights is an awful waste of fuel. I turn off my bike or truck at long lights.
I think it also encourages raging drivers to short cut by speeding through side streets where people are walking to schools. On the wicked traffic days I’ve seen furious drivers zip on to Beech St. from Quinpool (where there’s a no right on red sign) and rip through the Tupoer / Mi’kmaq Junior High area at high speed with kiddies everywhere!
Tupper
getting there a little slower…. not as bad as having your brains devoured…
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/speci…
My wife called about an intersection with a re-dick-ulous light sequence, and the person actually admitted they “deliberately disrupt the timing so people can’t speed.” She argued that in Montreal, which people would usually agree is a speedy city, they synchronize lights, and the person was like “oh well, here we don’t, or people would take advantage”.
Hear hear, bring back the monkeys! Maybe they can organize concerts when they are done!
I like taking hollis simply because it usually IS the only set of sequenced lights in this hole.
get through downtown a HELL of a lot quicker.
was saddened to hear Bobo the chimpanzie was retired as head stop light controller.
saved us tax payers, 8 banana’s & some mixed fruit each day, when he left
But Peter K has to do something with his time as he waits for his next public appearence !.
yeah, getting in and out of burn side takes way longer than it should. And fuck being carless and working in burnside. Walking around that place in the heat or the extreme cold is fucking death. Same goes for Dartmouth Crossing. I need a car to live comfortably in this city, I feel. Other cities, not really.
A man goes into the chimp store
most chimps were selling for $5
“Why is this chimp $10?”
“He knows how to cook 6 different meals and he can clean up after”
“Why is this chimp $100?”
“He can maintain your entire house and drive your children to school”
“Why is this chimp $100,000. What does he do?”
“Well, we haven’t seen him do anything, but he says that he is an engineer.”
Ha haaa! GV! Hay – I hear Cheeta’s consulting now.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/…
i hope he has a chimp girlfriend. they way he is lounging on the chesterfield, could be a relative of some of us
Smart-intersections work fine. Although if you drive some light, piece of shit SmartCar (or worse yet, a bicycle), you’ll be waiting a long time.