Interesting concept. Sequenced lights timed to the speed limits would accomplish the same thing.
The unintended consequences of this will be epic.
Philly would be much better off spending time solving their feral youth problem.
They should replace the red lights in Philly with a big red middle finger. That’s their attitude.
I suggest the next time they retire a police cruiser, they simply park it on Kelly Drive near Fountain Green Drive and place a mannequin in the driver seat sporting a full policeman's uniform. They could even set up a relay connected to a simple circuit that would randomly flash the lights to achieve the look of a real cop in the cruiser.
Move its location occasionally but I guarantee that the average speed of motorists will be very near or under 35 mph. And it costs the town next to nothing.
All traffic enforcement is about revenue.
The street in this article is 35 MPH, but most motorists travel it at 55 MPH. Studies have been done that prove motorists generally travel at speeds that are intuitively comfortable, hence most motorist in this story are NOT going 35. Therefore, the likely appropriate speed is, in fact, probably closer to 55 than it is to 35. But the speed Nazis want ticket money and believe that “for the children” everyone should drive at 10 MPH.
There is a major highway near were I live. This highway speed limit is set at 55 MPH, yet at one section of the highway the road narrows and the shoulders of the road are close to the lanes. At this section of the road most motorists traveling this highway naturally, and always SLOW DOWN. The speed limit is 55. The highway was designed for 55+, but motorists almost always travel at comfortable speeds.
Just yell, “SAFTEY” and you can get almost any road speed limit reduced to stupid speed. I want to travel at ludicrous speed!
The average speed is 54.8mph ,, sounds like the people have spoken and they feel that 55 is a safe speed for this 4 lane highway (the photo shows that this borders a body of water so there is no traffic entering from side streets) .. the article mentions frequent accidents .. my first thought is that the few people driving 35 and the masses at 55 create the problem ,, simply raising the limit to 45 or 50 mph would greatly reduce the mismatch in speed between cars and reduce the accident rate.
There’s an old joke about Kelly Drive during the AM rush hour, which is truly bumper to bumper at a HIGH rate of speed.
Goes like this: Dude was in his Volkswagen, looked down at his speedo, and it showed he was doing 55 mph.
It was then that he noticed his engine had stopped.
You have to drive that damn thing to understand how really close to reality that joke was.
You know I have plenty of complaints about living on the left shore of America.
But one thing is aok.
I never get nailed for speeding. And I do it a lot.
Got a ticket driving in Chicago for one day. But it has been quite a while since I got stopped out here.
It seems the cops have plenty of other things to worry about.