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To: Scumbria who wrote (110241)	9/19/2000 2:22:54 AM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Respond to of 186894

There is no question that one-way streets would make the synchronization much easier, because it eliminates left turns across traffic. Also, if lights were triggered by traffic leaving the previous light, rather than by cars arriving at the current light, this would minimize the plague of lights which turn red as you approach them. At one time, when entering Poughkeepsie N.Y. (from the west) coming off the Mid Hudson Bridge, you had to struggle thru inter city traffic the entire way to get thru town to continue east bound on US 44. Finally, they made an eastbound and westbound arterial thoroughfare (two separate one way roads - one east bound and one west bound) to alleviate the problem. The lights are synchronized and often you can pass thru the entire city without hitting a light. And who would really want to spend any time in Poughkeepsie anyway??? It works great! THE WATSONYOUTH

To: Scumbria who wrote (110241)	9/19/2000 10:40:19 AM
From: pgerassi	Respond to of 186894

Dear Scumbria: Traffic lights are designed for the people who pay for them. The businesses and retailers along them, who want the traffic to stop and while they wait look at the retailer and perhaps buy from them or obtain name recognition for their company, etc. You are nothing to the city or county engineers because you do not contribute to the political machine (when they want it which is most of the time). If the decision on where the lights are placed was given to a regional authority whose express purpose was to reduce pollution and increase traffic capacity, these fixes you want would already be in place because there are many more people who vote than retailers who want you to stop, wait, pollute, and waste time and money. Your best bet is to create and promote such an authority with those stated goals (and with some teeth if they do not deliver). Pete