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To: CharlesWayneCT
An ordinary car would be lucky to be up to 15 mpg on that trip, especially if you catch the morning commuter train and all the red lights.

This makes me wonder - does anybody think that the traffic control "experts" will ever get their act together and actually time traffic lights so that traffic doesn't have to stop every 1000 feet for a red one in some cities? This is a huge waste of energy and time, but localities love to use traffic signals as speed-control devices.

There were streets in Cleveland, Ohio, some 40 years ago that had timed traffic lights on them. Streets like Madison Avenue and Carnagie Avenue - you could drive 35 mph for several miles and always hit all the lights green. That should be the goal today, but it's not.

15 posted on 06/04/2008 9:41:15 AM PDT by meyer (Still conservative, no longer Republican)
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To: meyer

Hey everybody MILES O’BRIEN HAS A CIRRUS SR22!


16 posted on 06/04/2008 9:58:14 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: meyer

Back when I was commuting from Brooklyn to New Jersey every day, I found that the lights on Canal Street in Manhattan were sync’ed for either 35 MPH or 70 MPH. If you got across the Manhattan Bridge before 5:58 AM, you could get across Manhattan an into the Holland Tunnel in 90 seconds. If you crossed the Manhattan Bridge after 6:00 AM, the traffic started backing up, and it would take you about an hour.


18 posted on 06/30/2008 1:07:02 PM PDT by gridlock (Al Gore wants YOU to live like the Flintstones while HE lives like the Jetsons.)
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