[Dr. Sivana]

No, the article pointed out that it takes the same number of seconds for the same line to move through the light, whether the cars are more closely parked or further away.

Here in Georgia, there are a lot of six lane roads on major thoroughfares. This makes for complex advance green arrows, advance yellow arrows, flashing yellow arrows. In many cases during rush hour, the cars are backed up light to light, and sometimes for more than one cycle of changes. If the drivers are all courteous and leave that kind of room, the backups may still spill all the way back into the school zone, as the cars that are a light back may wind up being stuck for another as they may have the red light at the time that they would have been going on the green at the next intersection.

[sparklite2]

It might have been in Memphis, I’m not sure, but the main thoroughfare downtown had 8 lanes with a traffic light over each lane so that all lanes were reversible to handle rush hour traffic going one way in the morning then the other way in the evening.

I was a dopey tourist who thought he could beat six lanes of traffic with a left turn before they entered the intersection.

This proved to be an error. LOL