The assholes at HRM (you know who I mean) could help save tens of thousands of dollars just by coordinating a few stop lights. But that would be no fun, and you can’t get a trip anywhere to study it, so what the fuck.
Anyone who ever drove by the front of Alderney Place would know what I mean–3 lights in a one block distance and they are NEVER coordinated to be all green at once. To the fucking assholes at HRM traffic, I hope you feel like proud energy conscious morons. Because you are!! —An energy conscious driver
This article appears in Sep 30 – Oct 6, 2010.
So people can turn left from the side streets?
Damm OP, you have it tough.
there is such a thing as a concious driver, energy wise or no, shit, i thought most in this city just owned the road.
OP doesn’t have their license yet… you’ll get it once you start driving.
I love how the lights coordinate by the 102 at the BLIP exit going from lacewood to chainlake. Every time I go through (which is multiple times, daily) I get that “it’s not gonna change” feeling when I get to the second set and BAM it does. haha.
THRM says they’re corordinated, but I have yet seen evidence of it. Absolutley awful.
Guy’s all the money available for salaries is paid out to the top bureaucrats & the useless council & their great leader (how can you be a great leader when you & your council are useless????)
SO the only thing they had left to pay the traffic pattern controler was some old fruit and on sale banana’s…which is why they hired Bobo the chimpanzie & to be fair he probably does twice as good a job as the mayor or any other councillor would do.
The place that enrages me is out-going Main St. THe set of light at the sobeys/gas station totally destroy traffic flow. Cars are backed up to daves grocery 2 kms back, while 10-12 cars make it through the double set of lights. As soon as you get passed the sobeys lights, smooth sailing. I think these lights are traffic actuated, as soon as a sobeys customer wants to leave the light turns immediatly. P’s me off.
you know, lights can only truly be coordinated in one direction – aka the Peak flow direction… They switch from inbound to outbound depending on the time of day.
It sucks, because I’m always going the opposite way of the peak traffic flow on my commute, and i hit EVERY. RED. LIGHT. in clayton park…
but there you have it… mystery solved? next time you’re bitching about the lights, just remember that the guy going the other direction is shitting bricks at his 10-green-light streak.
The lights on Bayer’s Lake have it down pat. Quinpool on the other hand can’t make up it’s mind between red, yellow, green, or some shade in between.
I think a lot are weight-sensored now or something so that if someone is waiting to turn left or right onto the road you’re on, there’s a good chance it will turn red soon.
Alderney Drive is definitely a pain with the out-of-sequence lights