[NonValueAdded]

Agree, those short timings should gain that engineer a charge of negligent homicide for any fatalities at those intersections. The insurance companies should sue the city for all the accidents at the intersections to recover their costs.

That Texas study about the huge decrease in problems with an added second tells me even the standard timings are geared more towards someone with NASCAR reflexes than the general driving public. Tar and feather time.

[Army Air Corps]

As a Lubbock resident, I have been following this cash grab scheme. The City Traffic Engineer was interviewed on a local radio news programme and he squirmed when confronted with stats that showed no benefit to public safety and reports from cities that stopped using the cameras. The traffic engineer relentlessly regurgitated the same three talking points; it became obvious that he had a bloodyminded determination to push this with the city council.